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In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. He calls into question the anti-technological stance commonly associated with its theoretical legacy and argues that technology contains potentialities that could be developed as the basis for an alternative form of modern society.Feenbergs critical reflections on the ideas of J?rgen Habermas, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, and Kitaro Nishida shed new light on the philosophical study of technology and modernity. He contests the prevalent conception of technology as an unstoppable force responsive only to its own internal dynamic and politicizes the discussion of its social and cultural construction.This argument is substantiated in a series of compelling and well-grounded case studies. Through his exploration of science fiction and film, AIDS research, the French experience with the information superhighway, and the Japanese reception of Western values, he demonstrates how technology, when subjected to public pressure and debate, can incorporate ethical and aesthetic values.

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title:Alternative Modernity : The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory
author:Feenberg, Andrew.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520089863
print isbn13:9780520089860
ebook isbn13:9780585343549
language:English
subjectTechnology--Social aspects, Culture, Democracy.
publication date:1995
lcc:HM221.F384 1995eb
ddc:303.48/3
subject:Technology--Social aspects, Culture, Democracy.
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Alternative Modernity
The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory
Andrew Feenberg
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press
London, England
Copyright 1995 by
The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Feenberg, Andrew.
Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and
social theory / Andrew Feenberg.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-08985-5 (c: alk. paper). ISBN 0-520-08986-3
(p: alk. paper)
1. TechnologySocial aspects. 2. Culture. 3. Democracy.
I. Title.
HM221.F384 1995
303.48'3dc20
958666
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984
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CONTENTS
Preface
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1. Introduction: Technology and Freedom
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Democratizing Technical Change
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Underdetermination and Public Intervention
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Legitimacy and Rationality
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Value, Culture, and Technology
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Conclusion
14
Part I. Dystopian Enlightenment
2. Marcuse and the Critique of Technology: From Dystopia to Interaction
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Prologue: Obstinacy as a Theoretical Virtue
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The Protest against Progress
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Rationality and Dystopia
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Radical Critique of Technological Society
25
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The Ontological Critique of Technology
30
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Interactive Strategies of Change
34
3. Dystopia and Apocalypse: The Emergence of Critical Consciousness
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Critique as Mass Culture
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An End to History
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The Last Humanist
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The Vanishing Consensus
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Part II. Technique And Value
4. The Technocracy Thesis Revisited: Adorno, Foucault, Habermas
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