On the Internet

Hubert L. Dreyfus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

12 Seiten

2015 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-12833-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Hubert Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Introduction 1. The Hype about Hyperlinks 2. How Far is Distance Learning from Education? 3. Disemobied Telepresence and the Remoteness of the Real 4. Nihilism on the Information Highway 5. Embodiment and Meaning in the Metaverse? Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2016
Reihe/Serie	Thinking in Action
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-138-12833-3 / 1138128333
ISBN-13	978-1-138-12833-0 / 9781138128330
Zustand	Neuware