Technology, Modernity, and Democracy

Essays by Andrew Feenberg
Herausgeber: Beira, Eduardo; Feenberg, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The volume includes chapters on citizenship, modernity, and Heidegger and Marcuse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781786607195
• ISBN-10: 1786607190
• Artikelnr.: 50442078

Autorenporträt

Edited by Eduardo Beira and Andrew Feenberg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Philosophy of Technology
1. What is Philosophy of Technology?
2. Ten Paradoxes of Technology
Part II: Citizenship and Critical Theory of Technology
3. Technoscience at the Fork
4. Agency and Citizenship in a Technological Society
5. Function and Meaning: The Double Aspect of Technology
Part III: Heidegger and Marcuse
6. The Critique of Technology
7. On Reification and Concrete Philosophy
8. The Politics of Meaning: Modernity, Technology and Rationality
Conclusion: Encountering Technology
Bibliography
Index