The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture (SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society)

In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology. Dedication Contents 1. Introduction 2. Arendt, the Household, and Convenience 3. Marxist Perspectives on Consumption 4. Settling American Space 5. Setting Bodies in Motion 6. Weber, Protestantism, and Consumption 7. Nietzsche and Modern Asceticism 8. Traces of Modern Asceticism 9. The End of Death Notes Index Thomas F. Tierney. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 209-273) And Index.