Papers by George Teschner
Contemporary technology in the form of electronically managed interactive telecommunications is c... more Contemporary technology in the form of electronically managed interactive telecommunications is compatible with the goals and values of the humanities. For Marx, machine-work tended toward being mechanically routine, repetitive, deskilled, and trivialized. In the case of discourse, the same criticism has been made of computerized communication. Immediacy is not authorial presence, but the experience of textuality that is maximized by participation in interactive communication. Bulletin board technology inverts the relationship between the degree of communicative interaction and the number of communicants. It is both mass communication and individualized participation. From the point of view of a theory of discourse, the bulletin board system is unique in that the ratio between the number of participants and the individualized nature of the interaction is directly proportional. One person's voice does not inhibit or repress the voice of another. It is the technological embodiment of the ideal speech situation of Habermas which allows for the maximum of democratic participation and which, by allowing everyone to have a voice, allows for the greatest amount of dissensus and dialectic.
The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 1998
Contemporary technology in the form of electronically managed interactive telecommunications is c... more Contemporary technology in the form of electronically managed interactive telecommunications is compatible with the goals and values of the humanities. For Marx, machine-work tended toward being mechanically routine, repetitive, deskilled, and trivialized. In the case of discourse, the same criticism has been made of computerized communication. Immediacy is not authorial presence, but the experience of textuality that is maximized by participation in interactive communication. Bulletin board technology inverts the relationship between the degree of communicative interaction and the number of communicants. It is both mass communication and individualized participation. From the point of view of a theory of discourse, the bulletin board system is unique in that the ratio between the number of participants and the individualized nature of the interaction is directly proportional. One person's voice does not inhibit or repress the voice of another. It is the technological embodiment...
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2006
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1977
The objective of the article is to examine the phenomenological meaning of the concept of faith i... more The objective of the article is to examine the phenomenological meaning of the concept of faith in the philosophy of Kierkegaard and consider its psychbological implications. The article begins with a discussion of the aesthetic and ethical modes of existence showing how these are components of religious consciousness. A dialectical resolution of the conflict between aesthetic and moral impulses places the religious consciousness before a possibility which Kierkegaard calls the theological self that is wholly unlike what is known. It is in the context of the discussion of the possibility of this extraordinary self-identity that the attitude of faith and sin are analyzed. The movement toward the possibility which transcends the known is a death and rebirth process which, according to Kierkegaard, man is unable to choose on his own. Here the meaning of Christ is discussed as the bridge between the finite and infinite which replaces the necessity of choice with an acceptance of this ex...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1981
Journal of Indian Philosophy, 1981
Refutation du dualisme corps-esprit dans le Surangama sutra, texte classique du bouddhisme mahaya... more Refutation du dualisme corps-esprit dans le Surangama sutra, texte classique du bouddhisme mahayana (1 siecle ap. J.-C.)| sa pertinence eu egard aux theories occidentales (Descartes| Leibniz).
Philosophy East and West, 1986
Turning Toward Technology, 2017
Turning Toward Technology, 2017
Turning Toward Technology, 2017
Turning Toward Technology, 2017
Turning Toward Technology, 2017
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2009
Heidegger, Winner, and Ellul's critiques of Western technology focus on a notion of efficienc... more Heidegger, Winner, and Ellul's critiques of Western technology focus on a notion of efficiency that subordinates to itself all non-instrumental values. An alternative conception of efficiency is proposed based on the Taoist theory of non-action (wu-wei). The ancient Taoist text, The Chuang Tzu, reveals a type of efficiency that is effective, resourceful, and entrepreneurial. It is a form of action which has an intimate rather than alienated relation to technology, and which is sensitive to the ethical and aesthetic values that Heidegger and Ellul claim are excluded from the Western conception of efficiency.
Teaching Philosophy, 1990
Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 2011
Uploads
Papers by George Teschner