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Andrew Feenberg
TECHNOLOGY, MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY.
Edited by Eduardo Beira
ISBN 978-151-xxxxx-x-x
2016 , xxx pag.
CONTENTS:
Technology, modernity and democracy: notes from the organizer
Eduardo Beira
ESSAYS BY ANDREW FEENBERG
About the critical theory of technology
Tecnocracy and democracy
Issues about methods
Technology and lifeworld
Which progress for whom?
PART I
Citizenship and critical theory of technology
Starting at the beginning
Three case histories
Controversy in medicina
Participatory design in education
Hacking the network
Critical theory of technology
2. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY: DISTINCTIONS AND CONNECTIONS
Prologue: the cold fusion fiasco
Distinguishing science and technology
Two criteria
Democratizing science
Technology and society
Differentiation and translation
3. AGENCY AND CITIZENSHIP IN A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Technical citizenship
Critical constructivism
Democratic rationalization
4. MODERNITY, TECHNOLOGY AND THE FORMS OF RATIONALITY
Social rationality and reification
Critique of technology and modernity
The alternative of Marcuse
Determinism and studies of technology
Towards a new technical policy
Nature and human prosperity
PART II
Philosophy of technology and modernity
5. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY?
Introduction
Greece: technique and essence
Technology and modernity
Modern theories of technology
6. HEIDEGGER, MARCUSE AND THE CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGY
Technology and culture
Heidegger's ontological critique
Marcuse's bidimensional critique
Experience based constructive responses
7. FUNCTION AND MEANOING: THE DOUBLE ASPECT OF TECHNOLOGY
The meaning of technology
Lukacs, Heidegger and Marcuse
Borgmann and Simpson
New expressions of technical agency
Hermeneutics of technology and new democracy
8. TEN PARADOXES OF TECHNOLOGY
Summary
1. The paradox of thje parts and the whole
2. The paradox of the obvious
3. The paradox of the origin
4. The paradox of the frame
5. The paradox of action
6. The paradox of the means
7. The paradox of complexity
8. The paradox of value and fact
9. The democratic paradox
10. The paradox of conquest
Conclusion