Une analyse de l'évolution du monde moderne depuis quatre siècles, façonné au gré du capitalisme ainsi que des progrès technologiques. L'auteur met en lumière l'objectivation de l'être humain au profit du mécanique et insiste sur la nécessité de résister pour retrouver la conscience d'être au monde ou encore remettre la nature au centre de la vie. ©Electre 2025
Becoming machines
400 Years of Combat Between Man and Machine
For four centuries, the modern world has been dominated by machinery. One philosopher sees living beings as perfected machines (Descartes), another sees nature as the work of an engineer equipped with a supercomputer (Leibniz). Money is the soul of capital, the machine is its body.
But the elimination of life in favor of the mechanical leads to a general commodification of human life and a loss of our being-in-the-world. Turning nature into a mere raw material, replacing vital processes with mechanical procedures ail this makes it possible to treat human beings as things, and turn them into predictable beings. This man, who was promised to become « master and possessor of nature », is in the process of becoming the servant of his own creations.
If we don't want to give way to the posthuman, it's time to take the measure of what's at stake and think about how we can put grains of sand in the machine. That's what this book is all about.
Paru le : 25/04/2025
Thématique : Sociologie de la famille et des générations
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Denis Collin
Éditeur(s) :
Max Milo
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-315-02285-4
EAN13 : 9782315022854
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 288
Hauteur: 21.0 cm / Largeur 15.0 cm
Épaisseur: 2.6 cm
Poids: 364 g
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