Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social TheoryUniversity of California Press, 7 nov. 1995 - 200 pagini 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. Feenberg's critical reflections on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-François 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. |
Cuprins
Introduction Technology and Freedom | 1 |
Underdetermination and Public Intervention | 3 |
Legitimacy and Rationality | 7 |
Value Culture and Technology | 12 |
Conclusion | 14 |
I | 17 |
Marcuse and the Critique of Technology From Dystopia to Interaction | 19 |
The Protest against Progress | 20 |
Postmodern Technology | 131 |
Social Memory | 134 |
The Loss of the Code | 137 |
Anticipations of Interaction | 139 |
From Information to Communication The French Experience with Videotex | 144 |
The Emergence of a New Medium | 146 |
The Conflict of Codes | 154 |
The Social Construction of the Minitel | 161 |
Rationality and Dystopia | 22 |
Radical Critique of Technological Society | 25 |
The Ontological Critique of Technology | 30 |
Interactive Strategies of Change | 34 |
Dystopia and Apocalypse The Emergence of Critical Consciousness | 41 |
An End to History | 43 |
The Last Humanist | 56 |
The Vanishing Consensus | 65 |
II | 73 |
The Technocracy Thesis Revisited Adorno Foucault Habermas | 75 |
The Technocracy Thesis | 78 |
From the System to the Organization | 81 |
Delegation and Consensus Formation | 83 |
The Technocratic Technical Code | 87 |
Action and Consensus Formation | 89 |
Underdetermination and Operational Autonomy | 91 |
The Techocracy Thesis Revisited | 94 |
On Being a Human Subject AIDS and the Crisis of Experimental Medicine | 96 |
Caring and Curing | 100 |
The Revolt against Ethical Regulation | 102 |
Participant Interests | 104 |
The Sociotechnical Ethics of Medical Experimentation | 109 |
Science and Ethics | 118 |
III | 121 |
French Theory and Postmodern Technology From Lyotard to the Minitel | 123 |
The Crisis of Narration | 126 |
Postmodern Pragmatics | 129 |
The Future of the Communication Society | 165 |
IV | 167 |
The Problem of Modernity in Nishidas Philosophy | 169 |
Experience and Science | 173 |
Dialectics of Place | 177 |
Cultural SelfAffirmation | 183 |
Greeks or Jews? | 185 |
Conclusion | 192 |
Alternative Modernity? Playing the Japanese Game of Culture | 193 |
The Rules of the Game | 194 |
Autonomy and Reflection | 196 |
The Structure of Conflict | 198 |
The Pattern Disturbed | 200 |
Etiquette or Equity | 203 |
Layers of Meaning | 207 |
Aestheticism East and West | 210 |
Cultural Genealogy | 213 |
The Culture of Place | 215 |
Place and Alternative Modernity | 218 |
Conclusion Culture and Modernity | 221 |
Hybrid Realities | 224 |
Types of Design | 226 |
From Unity to Diversity | 230 |
References | 233 |
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Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory Andrew Feenberg Previzualizare limitată - 1995 |
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