Publications
The public thing
- Author(s)
- Mark Coeckelbergh
- Abstract
Is there a politics of artifacts, and if so, what does it mean? Defining the issue as a problem about the relation between the human and the non-human, I argue that our common philosophical concepts bar us from an adequate understanding of this problem. Using the work of Hannah Arendt and Bruno Latour, I explore an escape route that involves a radical redefinition of the social. But the cost of this solution is high: we would lose the metaphysical foundation for our belief in the absolute value and dignity of humans. We should pay that prize only if we gain a better understanding of what we are doing and what we want to do together - with things.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Philosophy
- External organisation(s)
- University of Twente
- Journal
- Research in Philosophy and Technology
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 175-181
- No. of pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 0161-7249
- Publication date
- 2009
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603113 Philosophy
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/the-public-thing(7c2410cc-e82a-468c-8a57-b1e6fa953ac0).html