Abstract
Like other large-scale modernist projects-the Soviet Union, Los Angeles, agribusiness-the human sciences now face the possibility of systemic collapse. Likewise, they are threatened not by other large-scale competitors but by smaller yet pervasive changes in the social environment. Big science is no threat, while cell phones and laser eye surgery lead the way to a cyborg society engineered by design technologies in which neither social explanation nor social critique are valuable commodities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Prudence |
Subtitle of host publication | Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice |
Publisher | Penn State University Press |
Pages | 287-321 |
Number of pages | 35 |
ISBN (Print) | 0271022558, 9780271025278 |
State | Published - 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities