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The whale and the reactor : a search for limits in an age of high technology

Langdon Winner

University of Chicago Press, 1986

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Bibliography: p. 179-192

Includes index

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The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time.--David Dickson, New York Times Book Review The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day.--Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis

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  • NCID
    BA06735513
  • ISBN
    • 0226902102
    • 0226902110
  • LCCN
    85008718
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 200 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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