Technology, Modernity, and Democracy

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

• Broschiertes 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

• Reinventing Critical Theory
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781786607218
• ISBN-10: 1786607212
• Artikelnr.: 50447498

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