Questioning technology / Andrew Feenberg.

By:

Feenberg, Andrew [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Description: xvii, 243 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415197546
9780415197540
0415197554
9780415197557

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.46 21

LOC classification:

HM221 .F3843 1999

Contents:

List of charts -- Preface -- 1. Technology, Philosophy, Politics -- Pt. I. The Politicizing of Technology -- 2. Technocracy and Rebellion: The May Events of 1968 -- 3. Environmentalism and the Politics of Technology -- Pt. II. Democratic Rationalization -- 4. The Limits of Technical Rationality -- 5. The Problem of Agency -- 6. Democratizing Technology -- Pt. III. Technology and Modernity -- 7. Critical Theories of Technology -- 8. Technology and Meaning -- 9. Impure Reason -- References -- Index.

Summary: "Modern industrial society is an experiment with a brief past and an uncertain future. In less than two centuries, technology has transformed the globe and given the human race the power to realize its highest ideals or destroy itself. Questioning Technology offers the recognition of the democratic significance of public intervention into technical life We see that the rise and advance of information technology accounts for technologies ultimately crucial social and political position. If we continue to see technical and social domains as being separate, then we are essentially avoiding and denying an integral part of our existence, and our place in a democratic society. Questioning Technology convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it and manage it."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index.

"Modern industrial society is an experiment with a brief past and an uncertain future. In less than two centuries, technology has transformed the globe and given the human race the power to realize its highest ideals or destroy itself. Questioning Technology offers the recognition of the democratic significance of public intervention into technical life We see that the rise and advance of information technology accounts for technologies ultimately crucial social and political position. If we continue to see technical and social domains as being separate, then we are essentially avoiding and denying an integral part of our existence, and our place in a democratic society. Questioning Technology convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it and manage it."--Publisher description.

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