Willem H. Vanderburg has taught preventive engineering, sociology, and environmental studies at the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto.
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CONTENTS Preface Introduction A CIVILIZATION OF NON-SENSE? Failure to Connect the Dots? Science as Biased Knowing Technology as Biased Doing Opposing Biases Some Consequences Where Do We Go From Here? How We Shall Proceed Chapter 1 SYMBOLIZATION: GETTING IN TOUCH WITH OURSELVES AND THE WORLD Living a Life Babies Getting in Touch with Themselves and the World Words as Signs Language and Order The Self and Cultural Order The True and the Real Myths and the True The True, the Other, and Myself Chapter 2 DESYMBOLIZATION: LOSING TOUCH WITH OURSELVES AND THE WORLD Undermining Symbolization Television as an Introduction to What Is Real Computers as the Playground of What Is Real High School Science as the Imagination of What Is Real The Emerging Order of What Is Real Chapter 3 COLLIDING ORDERS AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE REAL Re-engineering a Symbolic Species The Emerging Technological Order A Growing Dependence on Matter and Energy The Emerging Economic Order Desymbolizing the Cultural Order Making the Collision Liveable Chapter 4 THE TRIUMPH OF THE TECHNICAL ORDER OVER CULTURAL ORDERS Symbolization and Traditions Desymbolization and Tradition-Based Knowing and Doing Rationality within Culture Technique within Culture The Economy within the Technical Order Possessed by New Myths The University as a Bridgehead? Chapter 5 DESYMBOLIZATION AND RESYMBOLIZATION Is Resymbolization Possible? A Starting Point Resymbolizing Economics Resymbolizing the Social Sciences Resymbolizing Engineering Resymbolizing Management Resymbolizing Medicine Resymbolizing Legal Education Community Colleges Epilogue: Power and Non-power Notes
CONTENTS Preface Introduction A CIVILIZATION OF NON-SENSE? Failure to Connect the Dots? Science as Biased Knowing Technology as Biased Doing Opposing Biases Some Consequences Where Do We Go From Here? How We Shall Proceed Chapter 1 SYMBOLIZATION: GETTING IN TOUCH WITH OURSELVES AND THE WORLD Living a Life Babies Getting in Touch with Themselves and the World Words as Signs Language and Order The Self and Cultural Order The True and the Real Myths and the True The True, the Other, and Myself Chapter 2 DESYMBOLIZATION: LOSING TOUCH WITH OURSELVES AND THE WORLD Undermining Symbolization Television as an Introduction to What Is Real Computers as the Playground of What Is Real High School Science as the Imagination of What Is Real The Emerging Order of What Is Real Chapter 3 COLLIDING ORDERS AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE REAL Re-engineering a Symbolic Species The Emerging Technological Order A Growing Dependence on Matter and Energy The Emerging Economic Order Desymbolizing the Cultural Order Making the Collision Liveable Chapter 4 THE TRIUMPH OF THE TECHNICAL ORDER OVER CULTURAL ORDERS Symbolization and Traditions Desymbolization and Tradition-Based Knowing and Doing Rationality within Culture Technique within Culture The Economy within the Technical Order Possessed by New Myths The University as a Bridgehead? Chapter 5 DESYMBOLIZATION AND RESYMBOLIZATION Is Resymbolization Possible? A Starting Point Resymbolizing Economics Resymbolizing the Social Sciences Resymbolizing Engineering Resymbolizing Management Resymbolizing Medicine Resymbolizing Legal Education Community Colleges Epilogue: Power and Non-power Notes
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