Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology
Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology

Author: John C. Guse

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 3031320565

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This book traces how Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt made technology essential to the Nazi ‘world view’. They groomed engineers with a racist technical ideology that prepared them to later supervise slave labor and the Holocaust. Their concepts evolved from völkisch technocracy to an idealized harmony of man, machine and nature, and were eclipsed by Albert Speer’s total war. Partially due to willing ‘self-coordination’ from engineers, they gained political control over the engineering profession. Destined to be pillars of the Volksgemeinschaft, engineers were indoctrinated with Nazi principles of Aryan superiority at the Reich School of Technology, the Plassenburg. Nazi propaganda announced a bright future through technology, furthering a sense of normalcy in Germany, despite the ruthless exclusion of those unwanted.

Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination
Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination

Author: Christian Emden

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9783039101702

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This volume of conference papers highlights the connections between developments in technology and scientific thought since the 16th century on the one hand, and the ways in which the creative imagination of literary writers has responded to those developments on the other.

Mensch und Computer 2015 – Tagungsband
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Tagungsband

Author: Martin Pielot

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-09-14

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 3110435578

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These conference proceedings include the specialized academic lecture and brief contributions presented at the Humans and Computers 2015 conference in Stuttgart. It provides multiple perspectives from research that collectively provide a kaleidoscope of ideas, theories, and methodologies. The conference bridges the gap between theory and practical implementation with numerous application-oriented essays.

Die Technik und die Musen / Technology and the Muses
Die Technik und die Musen / Technology and the Muses

Author: Juliane Mikoletzky

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Published: 2016-01-20

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 3205201140

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The articles compiled in this volume address the manifold relationships between technology, art, culture, and science that have emerged throughout the 200 years of the history of the TU Wien. After reflecting in general on the interaction of art and technology, and their convergence at the “Vienna Chamber of Wonders 2015” exhibition, the connections between the members and graduates of the TU Wien and its predecessor institutions to the artistic, literary, and especially musical life of the time will be examined. Further articles are dedicated to the role of the Polytechnic Institute and the TH/TU Wien in the early development of photography and film, as well as to the efforts of the TH in spreading technical knowledge to the people during the first decades of the 20th century as part of "University Extension".

Exploring the Boundaries of Bodiliness
Exploring the Boundaries of Bodiliness

Author: Sigrid Müller

Publisher: V&R Unipress

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3847001973

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Die technologischen Entwicklungen unserer Zeit erwecken den Eindruck, dass wir unseren Leib verbessern und seine Grenzen mit ihrer Hilfe überwinden können. Das hohe philosophische Interesse an der leiblichen Verfasstheit des Menschen ist möglicherweise eine Gegenreaktion auf diese Entwicklung. Dieser Band bietet theologische Perspektiven zu diesem Thema. Die Beiträge vertreten ein integratives Verständnis vom Menschen, zu dem Leiblichkeit als unabdingbare Charakteristik gehört. Sie zeigen, wie diese Leiblichkeit die Art und Weise bedingt, wie wir uns wahrnehmen und miteinander in Beziehung treten und wie sich diese Grundbedingung auch auf unsere Beziehung zu Gott auswirkt. Gegen eine einseitige Perspektive der Verbesserung des Körpers stellen die Autoren einen differenzierten Umgang mit dessen Verwundbarkeit. Die Beiträger stellen die Bedeutung der Leiblichkeit für den Vollzug der Liturgie und für ein zeitgemäßes Verständnis von christlicher Gemeinde und diakonischer Arbeit heraus.

The Ethics of Today's Science and Technology
The Ethics of Today's Science and Technology

Author: Wenchao Li

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3825813630

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Beneath the discussion and clarification of problems, of which both sides agreed to have them in common and which are documented in this volume, one of the important insights on both sides had been disagreements depending on a different way in seeing, articulating and reflecting on these problems. So, the English term 'science', in differing from the German 'Wissenschaft' (which includes not only sciences of nature, but also humanities), is meant in the Western tradition as the 'uninterested' research for truth, especially for most general laws; but the Chinese understanding seems to be characterized by an immediate connection of science and its practical use.