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On the Internet: Thinking in Action - Life and learning on the Net through the eyes of a philosopher
Review By Arun Kumar Tripathi

On the Internet: Thinking in Action, Hubert Dreyfus, Routledge Press, 2001 [Paperback - 136 pages (March 2001) Routledge; ISBN: 0415228077

On The Internet: Thinking in Action raises the following questions: Can we leave our vulnerable bodies while preserving relevance, learning, reality and meaning? Does life on the Internet achieve Plato's dream of overcoming space and time as well as body? Drawing on philosophers such as Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the latest book by Hubert Dreyfus examines in detail the various perspectives of the Net through the eyes of a philosopher. ...

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