Technology, uprooting and focal practices: José Ortega y Gasset and Albert Borgmann facing the technological alienation of the world
Tecnología, desarraigo, y prácticas focales: José Ortega y Gasset y Albert Borgmann frente a la alienación tecnológica del mundo
Tecnologia, desenraizamento e práticas focais: José Ortega y Gasset e Albert Borgmann diante da alienação tecnológica do mundo
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Albert Borgmann José Ortega y Gasset Filosofía de la tecnología Técnica Alienación Albert Borgmann José Ortega y Gasset Philosophy of technology Technique Alienation Albert Borgmann José Ortega y Gasset Filosofia da tecnologia Técnica Alienação |
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| Universidad de Montevideo | |
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| http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/837 | |
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| Atribución 4.0 Internacional |
| Sumario: | Contemporary German-American philosopher Albert Borgmann describes modern societies as structured upon a technological paradigm based on consumption, disengagement from reality, and disburdenment. As a reaction to this paradigm, Borgmann indicates the need to establish practices around focal things that center the personal and social world, affording it meaning, and thus promoting the good life. In 1993, the American philosopher Patrick Dust compared Borgmann’s thinking with that of Ortega y Gasset, suggesting that Ortega presents more useful ideas for understanding technology. This article, instead, proposes that the philosophies of Ortega and Borgmann largely overlap, since the two present the same solution to the contemporary technological predicament around the cultivation of focal practices. |
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