Our Battle for the Human Spirit : (Record no. 113532)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781487511104 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781487520359 |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC4624952 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL4624952 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr11253703 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)953834731 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | CB478.V257 2016eb |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.48/3 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vanderburg, Willem H. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Our Battle for the Human Spirit : |
| Remainder of title | Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Toronto : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | University of Toronto Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Our New Spiritual Masters -- Limits to Knowing and Doing -- The Other World -- Creating a Human World -- Suspended in Language and Myths -- Relative Knowing and Doing -- The Birth of Societies -- The Cultural Pillars of Western Civilization -- Towards Absolute Knowing and Doing -- The Role of Industrialization -- Rationality and Technique -- Do We Have a Future? -- How We Will Proceed -- 1 The Cult of the Fact: What Discipline-Based Science Will Never Know -- How Well Do We Understand Ourselves and the World? -- Testing the Concept of Technique -- The Cult of the Fact -- Making Sense of Science -- 2 The Cult of Efficiency: What Technical Means Cannot Accomplish -- The Technical Approach -- The Cult of Efficiency -- Why Nothing Works Any More -- Design and Decision Making That Make Sense -- The Technical Approach as Mediation -- Technique as Life-Milieu and System -- 3 The Cult of Growth: The Anti-Economy -- Economics as Our Secular Theology -- The Limitations of Three Successive Economic Theories -- Economics without a Scientific Theory -- Economics as Ignoring Interconnectedness -- Towards a Diagnosis -- Re-creating an Economic Dimension in Human Life and Society -- Our Dependence on Knowing and Doing -- Our Dependence on Work -- Our Dependence on Matter -- Our Dependence on Energy -- Our Dependence on Food -- Our Dependence on an Urban Habitat -- Developing the Design Exemplars -- 4 The Cult of Disembodied Communal Life: The Anti-Society -- Divided Human Life -- The Erosion of Social and Cultural Support -- Desymbolization and Divided Lives -- Anti-Societies -- Human Techniques and Anti-Societies -- Living in Anti-Societies -- Resymbolization, Societal Renewal, and Equality -- Alternative Currencies and Social Cooperation. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 5 The Cult of Disembodied Personal Life: Epidemics of Anxiety and Depression -- Reality and Daily Life -- Personal Lives, Reality, and Myths -- From Unfolded to Divided Lives -- Growing Up Divided -- Reality and the Desymbolization of Personal Lives -- Escape into Play -- Escape into Screens -- Escape into Medical Drugs and Enhancement Technologies -- Escape into Technique as the Measure of All Things -- Hope Is Possible -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Our Battle for the Human Spiritis a comprehensive probe into what is happening to human life in the beginning of the 21stcentury. It explores how culture, experience, and symbolization have been replaced by scientific, discipline-based, approaches. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science and civilization. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Technology and civilization. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Civilization, Modern-21st century. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Vanderburg, Willem H. |
| Title | Our Battle for the Human Spirit |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2016 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781487520359 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4624952">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4624952</a> |
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