Globalization, technology, and philosophy / edited by David Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE : COMMUNITY -- Democracy in the age of globalization / Waller R. Newell -- Communication versus obligation : the moral status of virtual community / Darin Barney -- Technology and the great refusal : the information age and critical social theory / Bernardo Alexander Attias -- On globalization, technology, and the new justice / Tom Darby -- What globalization do we want? / Don Ihde -- Looking backward, looking forward : reflection on the twentieth century / Andrew Feenberg -- PART TWO : HUMANITY -- The problem with "The problem of technology" / Arthur M. Melzer -- Global technology and the promise of control / Trish Glazebrook -- The human condition in the age of technology / Gilbert Germain -- Technology and the ground of humanist ethics / Ian Angus -- Recomposing the soul : Nietzsche's soulcraft / Horst Hutter -- Globalization, technology, and the authority of philosophy / Charlotte Thomas -- Persons in a technological universe / Donald Philip Verene.

"Rather than focusing on political, economic, or social manifestations of technology and globalization, this book examines these related phenomena from a philosophical perspective. Prominent thinkers from philosophy, sociology, and political science reflect on a variety of important topics and individuals, including the Internet, citizenship, individuality, the human condition, spirituality, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojeve, and Strauss. The contributors ask whether political community and citizenship are still possible in an age of technology and globalization, and what it means to be human in a globalized technological society."--BOOK JACKET.