Free, non finalized thinking in the totally administred Society

Authors

  • Franco Ferrarotti Università La Sapienza, Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/2477

Keywords:

Precise Thinking, Information, deformation, Thinking as contemplative meditation

Abstract

The author contends that the prevailing mode of thinking in a technically advanced society is aineed at measuring with a clearcut precision specific phenomena while the involontary thinking as contemplation is being blurred. Electronic mass media of communication tend to enhance such tendency Media do not mediate. Information, as rich as it might be, risks to become deformation.

Author Biography

Franco Ferrarotti, Università La Sapienza, Roma

Professore emerito di Sociologia

Published

2012-10-28

Issue

Section

Researches - Philosophy and sciences - Sociology