Questioning Technology

Author:   Andrew Feenberg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415197557


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 February 1999
Format:   Paperback
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In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that technological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance. In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical change reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, religious, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical domains as being separate, then we are denying an integral part of our existence, and our place in a democratic society. Questioning Technology convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it and to manage it.

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Author:   Andrew Feenberg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780415197557


ISBN 10:   0415197554
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 February 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Andrew Feenberg's Questioning Technology is a cutting edge philosophy of technology which provocatively argues for the democratization of technology and subjecting technology to democratic debate and reconstruction. One of the most important books on technology in the present era <br>. <br>-Douglas Kellner, UCLA <br> Quite simply one of the best books in the field of philosophy of technology<br>. <br>-Andrew Light, SUNY-Binghampton <br> Andrew Feenberg identifies social choices within the essence of technology, thus opening up paths to democratization<br>. <br>-Les Levidow, Managing Editor, Science as Culture <br> Feenberg excels at unpacking the various technological approaches to manipulating the world that come to be misleading described in the singluar as 'technology'. <br>-M. Carleton Simpson, Wilfrid Laurier University <br>


Andrew Feenberg's Questioning Technology is a cutting edge philosophy of technology which provocatively argues for the democratization of technology and subjecting technology to democratic debate and reconstruction. One of the most important books on technology in the present era . -Douglas Kellner, UCLA Quite simply one of the best books in the field of philosophy of technology . -Andrew Light, SUNY-Binghampton Andrew Feenberg identifies social choices within the essence of technology, thus opening up paths to democratization . -Les Levidow, Managing Editor, Science as Culture Feenberg excels at unpacking the various technological approaches to manipulating the world that come to be misleading described in the singluar as 'technology'. -M. Carleton Simpson, Wilfrid Laurier University


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Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is the author of Alternative Modernity, Critical Theory of Technology, Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory, and co-editor of Technology and the Politics of Knowledge.

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