Digitalisierung

englischSeubert’s book analyses the digital revolution by transcending euphoria and fears of the apocalypse. He conceives digitalisation as an all-encompassing media change on a similar level to the invention of printing books and thus incisively and profoundly interprets the transformations in decision-making processes and ways of thinking it has caused in terms of their effect on both individuals and society. From the perspectives of both education theory and political philosophy, he also reflects on and further develops the philosophical approaches to technology and the media adopted by Heidegger, Gotthard Günther and Vilém Flusser. In doing so, he develops a pragmatic call for the sensible and discerning use of digital media. Digitalisation can contribute to a new form of cosmopolitan awareness, but the essential problems of the 21st century (such as changes to our security structure and in migration behaviour) cannot be overcome using digitalisation alone, which is why Seubert also calls for analogue skills and discourse to be cultivated at the same time.