Technology and the Politics of Knowledge

"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

ANDREW FEENBERG teaches philosophy at San Diego State University. His books include Lukacs, Marx, and the Sources of Critical Theory and Critical Theory of Technology. ALASTAIR HANNAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and author of Mental Images: A Defense and Human Consciousness. He is editor of the journal Inquiry.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

I. Technology as Ideology

Subversive Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Democracy

3

(20)

Andrew Feenberg

New Science, New Nature: The Habermas-Marcuse Debate Revisited

23

(20)

Steven Vogel

On the Notion of Technology as Ideology

43

(22)

Robert B. Pippin

II. Technology and the Moral Order

Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order

65

(20)

Langdon Winner

The Moral Significance of the Material Culture

85

(12)

Albert Borgmann

III. The Question of Heidegger

Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology

97

(11)

Hubert L. Dreyfus

Heidegger and the Design of Computer Systems

108

(20)

Terry Winograd

Heidegger on Technology and Democracy

128

(19)

Tom Rockmore

IV. Media Theories: The Politics of Seeing

Image Technologies and Traditional Culture

147

(12)

Don Ihde

Technology and the Civil Epistemology of Democracy

159

(16)

Yaron Ezrahi

V. Feminist Perspectives: Knowledge and Bodies

Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

175

(20)

Donna Haraway

Knowledge, Bodies, and Values: Reproductive Technologies and Their Scientific Context

195

(18)

Helen E. Longino

VI. Eccentric Positions

Sade, the Mechanization of the Libertine Body, and the Crisis of Reason

213

(23)

Marcel Henaff

The Archimedean Point and Eccentricity: Hannah Arendt's Philosophy of Science and Technology

236

(19)

Pieter Tijmes

VII. The Human and the Non-Human

Gilbert Simondon's Plea for a Philosophy of Technology

255

(17)

Paul Dumouchel

A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut: A Little Philosophy of Techniques

272

(10)

Bruno Latour

Contributors

282

(2)

Index

284

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Technology and the Politics of Knowledge

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