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Technology and the Politics of Knowledge

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor edited by Andrew Feenberg, Alastair Hannay Klappentext "This fine collection of essays from a diverse group of authors expounding on a wide variety of subjects presents a generous sampling of the new philosophy of technology." -Choice Zusammenfassung Analyzes various challenges of technology by philosophers and social scientists. This title responds to an ever-growing concern with technology in contemporary social thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments I. Technology as Ideology 1. Subversive Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Democracy/Andrew Feenberg 2. New Science, New Nature: The Habermas-Marcuse Debate Revisited/Steven Vogel 3. On the Notion of Technology as Ideology/Robert B. Pippin II. Technology and the Moral Order 4. Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order/Langdon Winner 5. The Moral Significance of the Material Culture/Albert Borgmann III. The Question of Heidegger 6. Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology/Hubert L. Dreyfus 7. Heidegger and the Design of Computer Systems/Terry Winograd 8. Heidegger on Technology and Democracy/Tom Rockmore IV. Media Theories: The Politics of Seeing 9. Image Technologies and Traditional Culture/Don Ihde 10. Technology and the Civil Epistemology of Drmocracy/Yaron Ezrahi V. Feminist Perspectives: Knowledge and Bodies 11. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective/Donna Haraway 12. Knowledge, Bodies, and Values: Reproductive Technologies and Their Scientific Context/Helen E. Longino VI. Eccentric Positions 13. Sade, the Mechanization of the Libertine Body, and the Crisis of Reason/Marcel Henaff 14. The Archimedean Point and Eccentricity: Hannah Arendt's Philosophy of Science and Technology/Pieter Tijmes VII. The Human and the Non-Human 15. Gilbert Simondon's Plea for a Philosophy of Technology/Paul Dumouchel 16. A Door Must Either Be Open or Shut: A Little Philosophy of Techniques/Bruno Latour Contributors Index ...

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Authors Andrew Hannay Feenberg
Assisted by Andrew Feenberg (Editor), Alastair Hannay (Editor)
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.05.1995
 
EAN 9780253209405
ISBN 978-0-253-20940-5
No. of pages 304
Series Indiana Series in the Philosop
Philosophy of Technology
Subject Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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