Philosophical tools for technological culture : putting pragmatism to work
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Philosophical tools for technological culture : putting pragmatism to work
（The Indiana series in the philosophy of technology）
Indiana University Press, c2001
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and index
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Description
"Hickman['s] . . . style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools'
which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological
cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses
and succeeds very well indeed." -Don Ihde
A practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's technological culture.
Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture contends that technology-a defining mark of contemporary culture-should be a legitimate concern of philosophers. Larry A. Hickman contests the perception that philosophy is little more than a narrow academic discipline and that philosophical discourse is merely redescription of the ancient past. Drawing inspiration from John Dewey, one of America's greatest public philosophers, Hickman validates the role of philosophers as cultural critics and reformers in the broadest sense. Hickman situates Dewey's critique of technological culture within the debates of 20th-century Western philosophy by engaging the work of Richard Rorty, Albert Borgmann, Jacques Ellul, Walter Benjamin, Jurgen Habermas, and Martin Heidegger, among others. Pushing beyond their philosophical concerns, Hickman designs and assembles a set of philosophical tools to cope with technological culture in a new century. His pragmatic treatment of current themes-such as technology and its relationship to the arts, technosciences and technocrats, the role of the media in education, and the meaning of democracy and community life in an age dominated by technology-reveals that philosophy possesses powerful tools for cultural renewal. This original, timely, and accessible work will be of interest to readers seeking a deeper understanding of the meanings and consequences of technology in today's world.
Table of Contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Tuning Up Technology
2. Technology and Community Life
3. Productive Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Agape
4. Art, Technoscience, and Social Action
5. Technoscience Education for a Life-Long Curriculum
6. Literacy, Mediacy, and Technological Determinism
7. Populism and the Cult of the Expert
8. Hope, Salvation, and Responsibility
9. The Next Technological Revolution
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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