Download or read book Hand's End written by David Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature—the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan.