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1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; PART I: THE REIGN OF TECHNE; Political Imagination in a Technical Age; Technology and Politics; Culture and Politics; The Modern Sacred and Secular Political Religions; The Political Revised Sequence; A Political Imagination for Our Time; Notes; Marx and Lukács on Technology and the Value of Freedom; The Movement from Communal Mediation to Commodity Mediation; The Movement from Particular Labor to Universal Producer; Scientific Planning and the Problem of Value -- Notes |
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Languages, Techniques, RationalitiesThe Trobrianders of Melanesia; Ancient Greece; The Sukuma of East Africa; Heidegger; A Game of Science; Beyond Games; Conclusions; Notes; Technology and the Problem of Democratic Control: The Contribution of Jürgen Habermas; The Relevance of Marx; The Problem as Defined by Weber; Towards a Model of Democracy; Interaction and Emancipation; Notes; Shades of Optimism: Soviet Views on Science and Morality; Propaganda Optimism; Historical Optimism; Cautious Optimism; Conclusions; Notes; PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY |
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Liberal Democracy and the Problem of TechnologyNotes; Rousseau Versus Instant Government: Democratic Participation in the Age of Telepolitics; I; II; Ill; IV; V; Notes; Anarchism and Technology; Notes; Hegel and Marx: Perspectives on Politics and Technology; Notes; Political Technology, Democracy and Education: John Dewey's Legacy; I; II; Ill; Notes; Dahl, Democracy and Technology; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Notes; PART III: PONDERING OUR DESTINY; Politics and Progress in Heidegger's Philosophy of History; Fundamental Ontology and the World-Historical Idea of Progress |
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Germany, the West and the Decline of SpiritTechnology as the Destiny of the West; Technology and the Future of Being; Conclusion; Notes; Fire Alarm: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Technology; Notes; Consent to the Universe: Simone Weil and the Natural Ground for Technological Choice; I; Necessity and the Good; The Object of Science; The Absence of God; Discontinuity and Limit; II; The Natural Ground of Obligation; Work as a Process of Self-Creation; Increasing Consciousness; Transforming the Workplace; III; Conclusion; Notes; George Grant on Technological Imperatives |
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Philosophy, Technology and DemocracyTechnology, Liberalism and Illiberalism; Why Cannot Technology Be Used for Democratic Purposes?; Notes; Action into Nature: Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Technology; Notes; Ethics and Technology: Hans Jonas' Theory of Responsibility; Notes; Notes on Contributors |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology and civilization -- Political aspects
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Technology and civilization -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beiner, Ronald
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Masciulli, Joseph
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| ISBN |
9781315493565 |
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131549356X |
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