Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this fact. First, in all actions, different individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure, etc. by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by such ethical dilemmas. Fourth, these dimensions of the technicity of action is typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. An interdisciplinary approach is required to hold together the general anthropological stretch of this study and its attentiveness to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (understood as the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. In all, this study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire range of human action between the extremes of daily routine and violent protest. weiterlesen