Humanizing the It: Martin Buber on Technology and the Ethics of Things

Martin Buber’s writings on technology are scarce and seemingly subordinated to what he described in I and Thou as the "tyranny of the It". But a closer look at his writings reveals, in fact, a life-long reflection on the dialogical potentiality of things—whether artworks, buildings, or mac...

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Main Author: Biemann, Asher D. 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 2
Further subjects:B Dialogue
B Technology
B community and society
B machine
B ethics of things
B Hasidism
B Martin Heidegger
B Labor
B I-It
B Martin Buber
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