Letters from Lake Como: Explorations on Technology and the Human Race - Paperback
Letters from Lake Como: Explorations on Technology and the Human Race - Paperback
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by Romano Guardini (Author)
This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. With prophetic clarity and unsettling farsightedness, Guardini's letters poignantly capture the personal implications and social challenges of living in the technological age -- concerns that have now come to fruition seventy years after they were first raised.
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This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. With prophetic clarity and unsettling farsightedness, Guardini's letters poignantly capture the personal implications and social challenges of living in the technological age - concerns that have now come to fruition seventy years after they were first raised.
Author Biography
Romano Guardini (1885-1968) was a professor of Christian philosophy at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, Tubingen, and Munch. A leading promoter of the German Catholic Youth Movement, he wrote more than thirty books, including Freedom, Grace and Dignity.
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