Humanism and Culture

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Subject: Humanism and Culture
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Sun 07 May 2000 - 22:49:17 MEST 

Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:49:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Humanism and Culture

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Greetings IFETS campus..

>Gene Schmidt wrote the below..
>
>> ... C.P. Snow thought the boundaries between the science and
>> technology culture which won World War II and the humanist culture
>> which lost, ...

On Sat, 6 May 2000, Alan Cooper wrote the below..

> While humanism loses in any war, the identification of the losing side
> in WWII with championship of humanist culture is not a position
> consistent with my (admittedly limited) understanding of C.P.Snow.
> Perhaps some context and the actual quote would help me to understand it
> better.

Adding to the above thoughts of Gene Schmidt and Alan Cooper, Andrew
Feenberg expressed the concerns, "After World War II, the humanities and
social sciences were swept by a wave of technological determinism.." -In
his essay, "From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology
at the Crossroads" --is available online at:
<http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/talk4.html> [In the essay, he
expressed concerns on, Heidegger's and Habermas's technical action in the
Critique of Modernity and Essence and History, and Contemporary critique
on technology and meaning, Interpreting the computer, Capitalism and
Substantive Theory of Technology, Hermeneutic Constructivism, with other
interesting details..]

Sincerely
Arun K. Tripathi

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