Technology, Modernity, and Democracy - Essays By Andrew Feenberg

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Eduardo Beira and Andrew Feenberg Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo Feenberg Beira
• Assisted by: Eduardo Beira (Editor), Andrew Feenberg (Editor), Feenberg Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786607195
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-719-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Reinventing Critical Theory; Reinventing Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -