Technology and the politics of knowledge
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Technology and the politics of knowledge
(The Indiana series in the philosophy of technology)
Indiana University Press, c1995
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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
" . . . informative, original, and provocative. . . . Many of the writers are major players in defining the contested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies as well as critical theory and Heidegger studies." -Gerald Doppelt
Table of Contents
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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