Critical Theory of Technology

Name: Critical Theory of Technology
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780195068542

ISBN-10: 0195068548

ISBN-13: 9780195068542

Edition: 1991

Authors: Andrew Feenberg

List price: $35.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Out of stock

We're sorry. This item is currently unavailable.

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This pathbreaking book argues that the roots of the degradation of labor, education, and the environment lie not in technology per se but in the cultural values embodied in its design.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Andrew Feenberg is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Critical Theory of Technology, Alternative Modernity, Questioning Technology, Transforming Technology, and Heidegger and Marcuse.

Preface	p. v
Introduction: The Parliament of Things	p. 3
Marxism	p. 21
Minimalist Marxism	p. 23
Contradictions of the Transition	p. 42
Action	p. 63
The Bias of Technology	p. 65
Postindustrial Discourses	p. 91
Culture	p. 115
The Dilemma of Development	p. 117
The Promise of Civilizational Change	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 161
The Critical Theory of Technology	p. 163
Notes	p. 199
Index	p. 225
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.