Technoscientific Angst: Ethics + Responsibility

✍ Scribed by Raphael Sassower

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 158
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What responsibility do the Manhattan Project scientists have for the atomic devastation of Hiroshima? Krupps scientists for the crematoriums at Auschwitz? Is there no way to revisit the ideals of science once devoted to creating a more reasonable and open society free from prejudices? Disturbing questions like these are at the heart of this sobering exploration of scientific and intellectual responsibility .

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 Responsible Technoscience: The Haunting Reality of Auschwitz and Hiroshima......Page 18
2 Public Expectations of Technoscience: From Truth to Immortality......Page 35
3 Ambiguity and Anxiety: The Making of Human Anguish......Page 57
4 The Postmodern Option: A Dialectical Critique......Page 79
5 Responsible Technoscience: A Reconstruction......Page 98
6 The Price of Responsibility: From Personal to Financial......Page 117
7 Cultural Changes: Agenda Setting......Page 136
References......Page 148
C......Page 154
K......Page 155
S......Page 156
Z......Page 157