On the Internet (Thinking in Action)

✍ Scribed by Hubert L. Dreyfus

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 181
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet argues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. Hubert Dreyfus also shows how Kierkegaard's insights into the origins of a media-obsessed public anticipate the web surfer, blogger and chat room. Drawing on studies of the isolation experienced by many internet users and the insights of philosopher such as Descartes and Kierkegaard, Dreyfus shows how the internet's privatisation of experience ignores essential human capacities such as trust, moods, risk, shared local concerns and commitment. The second edition includes a brand new chapter on ‘Second Life’ and is revised and updated throughout.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
One The Hype about Hyperlinks......Page 22
Two How Far is Distance Learning from Education?......Page 38
Three Disembodied Telepresence and the Remoteness of the Real......Page 62
Four Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity vs. Commitment in the Present Age......Page 85
Five Virtual Embodiment: Myths of Meaning in Second Life......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 134
Notes......Page 158
Index......Page 178

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