Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Philosophical & Religious Aspects of Technology, Reference - Psychology

Technology as Symptom and Dream

Name: Technology as Symptom and Dream
Author: Robert Romanyshyn
ISBN: 9780203358870

by Robert Romanyshyn

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The development of linear perspective in the 15th century represented a radical transformation in the European's sense of the world, the body and the self. Robert Romanyshyn's latest book examines the claim that the development of linear perspective vision was and is indispensable to the emergence of our technological world. It does so by telling the story of how an artistic technique has become a cultural habit of mind.

About the Author, Robert Romanyshyn

Robert D. Romanyshyn, professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, also teaches in the Arts and Humanities program at the University of Texas at Dallas, and is practising clinical psychologist. Author of Psychological Life: From Science to Metaphor, he has lectured and taught at numerous universities in the USA, Europe, and Africa.

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Romanyshyn is a psychologist, but his discussion ranges widely through art, literature, science, medicine, and contemporary technological events. He invites readers to approach technology as incarnating a shared cultural dream, and he uses this approach to probe the meaning of current developments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)