by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht · Deusto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423431830
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«El espíritu del mundo en Silicon Valley: Vivir y pensar el futuro» is the essay by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht published by Deusto in paperback (272 pages).
Gumbrecht, a professor at Stanford, reflects on Silicon Valley as the center of today's world. He analyzes why Palo Alto, Cupertino or Mountain View concentrate talent and ambition and how Apple, Google or Facebook shape society; Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates embody the era, with literary and philosophical erudition.
Published on October 20, 2020. Translation by Silvia Yusta Fernández, with a foreword by Santiago Satrústegui; original in German.
For readers interested in philosophical reflection on technology and in the analysis of Silicon Valley's business ecosystem.
Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht is a German-born American literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert Guérard Professor Emeritus in Literature at Stanford University. Since 1989, he held the Albert Guérard Chair as Professor in the Departments of Comparative literature and French and Italian in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. By courtesy, he was also affiliated with the Departments of German studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. Since retirement, he continues to be a Catedratico Visitante Permanente at the University of Lisbon and became a Presidential Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020.
