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Technology, Modernity, and Democracy: Essays by Andrew Feenberg (Reinventing Critical Theory)

Technology, Modernity, and Democracy: Essays by Andrew Feenberg (Reinventing Critical Theory)

Eduardo Beira (Editor), Andrew Feenberg (Editor)
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Publication Date: May 18th, 2018
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781786607218
Pages:
172

Description

This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The volume includes chapters on citizenship, modernity, and Heidegger and Marcuse.

About the Author

Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. His many publications include Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (1981 and 1986), Critical Theory of Technology (1991 and 2002), Alternative Modernity (1995), Questioning Technology (1999), Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History (2005), Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (2010), The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School (2014) and Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (2017). Eduardo Beira is an engineer teaching at the University of Minho and the MIT Portugal Program.

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