Technology and the politics of knowledge

Author(s)

• Feenberg, Andrew
• Hannay, Alastair

Bibliographic Information

Technology and the politics of knowledge

edited by Andrew Feenberg and Alastair Hannay

（The Indiana series in the philosophy of technology）

Indiana University Press, c1995

• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

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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Details

• NCID: BA25304439
• ISBN:
  • 0253321549
  • 0253209404
• LCCN: 94027789
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: x, 288 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : T14
  • DC20 : 601
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Technology -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA09978351