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Secular Nations under New Gods

Christianity’s Subversion by Technology and Politics

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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Secular Nations under New Gods

Christianity’s Subversion by Technology and Politics

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

The ongoing political muscle-flexing of diverse Christian communities in North America raises some deeply troubling questions regarding their roles among us. Earlier analyses including Herberg’s Protestant, Catholic, Jew showed that these three branches of the Judaeo-Christian tradition correspond to three forms of the American way of life; while Kruse’s One Nation Under God showed how Christian America was shaped by corporate America. Willem H. Vanderburg’s Secular Nations under New Gods proceeds based on a dialogue between Jacques Ellul’s interpretation of the task of Christians in the world and Ellul’s interpretation of the roles of technique and the nation-state in individual and collective human life. He then adds new insight into our being a symbolic species dealing with our finitude by living through the myths of our society and building new secular forms of moralities and religions. If everything is political and if everything is amenable to discipline-based scientific and technical approaches, we are perhaps treating these human creations the way earlier societies did their gods, as being omnipotent, without limits. Vanderburg argues that until organized Christianity becomes critically aware of sharing these commitments with their societies, it will remain entrapped in the service of false gods and thereby will continue to turn a message of freedom and love into one of morality and religion.

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1487519192

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Rescuing Humanity

Transcending the Limits of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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Rescuing Humanity

Transcending the Limits of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

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In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing for less than a century. During this brief period, these approaches have become responsible for both our spectacular successes and most of our social and environmental crises. At their roots is a cultural mutation that includes secular religious attitudes that veil the limits of these approaches, leading to their overvaluation. Because their use, especially in science and technology, is primarily built up with mathematics, living entities and systems can be dealt with only as if their "architecture" or "design" is based on the principle of non-contradiction, which is true only for non-living entities. This distortion explains our many crises. Vanderburg begins to explore the limits of discipline-based approaches, which guides the way toward developing complementary ones capable of transcending these limits. It is no different from a carpenter going beyond the limits of his hammer by reaching for other tools. As we grapple with everything from the impacts of social media, the ongoing climate crisis, and divisive political ideologies, Rescuing Humanity reveals that our civilization must learn to do the equivalent if humans and other living things are to continue making earth a home.

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Our War on Ourselves

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

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Willem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes.

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Healthy Cities

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Namir Khan,Willem H. Vanderburg

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Healthy Cities

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Namir Khan,Willem H. Vanderburg

Modern cities can be designed to constitute a more supportive environment for a great many activities, provide a more livable habitat, and reduce the burden imposed on the biosphere. They can be made healthier (in terms of the definition by World Health Organization) and more sustainable by means of new and emerging preventive approaches. Healthy Cities focuses on those preventive approaches that can make cities healthier and more sustainable. This book, as well as the two companion volumes, Sustainable Energy and Sustainable Production, is the result of a twelve-year research project carried out at the Center for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto. The research findings led to the development of a new conceptual framework and strategy aimed at converting technological and economic growth into development that would gradually become more sustainable.

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0810840340

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The Labyrinth of Technology

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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The Labyrinth of Technology

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

Exposing the limitations of conventional approaches to the engineering and regulation of technology, Vanderburg suggests that the solution lies in a preventive strategy that situates technological growth in its human, societal, and biospheric contexts.

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Our Battle for the Human Spirit

Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living

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Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the rise of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are manifestations of this shift in our civilization. Our Battle for the Human Spirit is a comprehensive probe into what is happening to human life in the beginning of the 21st century. It explores how culture, experience, and symbolization have been replaced by scientific, discipline-based, approaches. Willem H. Vanderburg argues that these approaches are inadequate in understanding the complexity of human lives and societies. In order to transcend these limits, Vanderburg calls for the reintegration of culture and symbolization into our daily lives.

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1487511116

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The Growth of Minds and Culture

A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience, Second Edition

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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The Growth of Minds and Culture

A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience, Second Edition

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In The Growth of Minds and Cultures Vanderburg shows how the culture of a society underlies its science, technology, economy, social structure, political institutions, morality, religion, and art.

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1487520344

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Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

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Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

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From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for granted. Everything was symbolized according to its meaning and value: a fallen branch from a tree became a lever; a tree trunk floating in the river became a canoe. Homo logos created communities based on cultures: humanity's first megaproject. Further symbolization of the human community and its relation to nature led to the possibility of creating societies and civilizations. Everything changed as these interposed themselves between the group and nature. Homo societas created ways of life able to give meaning, direction, and purpose to many groups by means of very different cultures: humanity's second megaproject. What Das Kapital did for the nineteenth century and La technique did for the twentieth, Willem H. Vanderburg's Living in the Labyrinth of Technology seeks to create for the twenty-first century: an attempt at understanding the world in a manner not shackled to overspecialized scientific knowing and technical doing. Western civilization may well be creating humanity's third megaproject, based not on symbolization for making sense of and living in the world, but on highly specialized desymbolized knowing stripped of all peripheral understanding. Vanderburg focuses on two interdependent forces in his narrative, namely, people changing technology and technology changing people. The latter aspect, although rarely considered, turns out to be the more critical one for understanding the spectacular successes and failures of contemporary ways of life. As technology continues to change the social and physical world, the experiences of this world 'grow' people's minds and society's cultures, thereby re-creating human life in the image of technology. Living in the Labyrinth of Technology argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by this pattern unless society intervenes on human (as opposed to technical) terms.

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Healthy Work

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Namir Khan,Nina Nakajima,Willem H. Vanderburg

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Healthy Work

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Namir Khan,Nina Nakajima,Willem H. Vanderburg

This reference provides an overview of relevant literature to engineers, managers, accountants, occupational health and safety specialists, and industrial hygienists, so that they, and other professionals, can understand what has caused our workplaces to become primary sources of physical and mental illness.

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0810852853

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The Labyrinth of Technology

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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Our War on Ourselves

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

By: Willem H. Vanderburg

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Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

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Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena make significant contributions (as in the biological and cultural spheres). As a result, our civilization succeeds in its scientific and technical endeavours yet fails in dealing with communities and ecosystems. Following his groundbreaking Labyrinth of Technology and Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, Willem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes. The work also illuminates how we can achieve a more balanced, livable, and sustainable future by combining technical and cultural perspectives in our educational and institutional settings.

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Our Battle for the Human Spirit

Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living

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Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living

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Secular Nations under New Gods

Christianity’s Subversion by Technology and Politics

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Christianity’s Subversion by Technology and Politics

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Book's by Willem H. Vanderburg

Secular Nations under New Gods

Secular Nations under New Gods

Rescuing Humanity

Rescuing Humanity

Our War on Ourselves

Our War on Ourselves

Healthy Cities

Healthy Cities

The Labyrinth of Technology

The Labyrinth of Technology

Our Battle for the Human Spirit

Our Battle for the Human Spirit

The Growth of Minds and Culture

The Growth of Minds and Culture

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

Healthy Work

Healthy Work

The Labyrinth of Technology

The Labyrinth of Technology

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

The Labyrinth of Technology

The Labyrinth of Technology

Our War on Ourselves

Our War on Ourselves

Our Battle for the Human Spirit

Our Battle for the Human Spirit

Secular Nations under New Gods

Secular Nations under New Gods

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