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Technosystem : The Social Life of Reason / Andrew Feenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) : 2 halftones, 3 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674982109
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
LOC classification:
  • HB87 .F44 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Technology and Human Finitude -- Method -- 1. Marx after Foucault -- 2. Critical Constructivism -- 3. Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism -- Application -- 4. The Internet in Question -- Theory -- 5. Reason and Experience in the Age of the Technosystem -- 6. The Concept of Function in Critical Constructivism -- 7. The Logic of Protest -- Conclusion: The Question of Progress -- Notes -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Summary: We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674982109

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Technology and Human Finitude -- Method -- 1. Marx after Foucault -- 2. Critical Constructivism -- 3. Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism -- Application -- 4. The Internet in Question -- Theory -- 5. Reason and Experience in the Age of the Technosystem -- 6. The Concept of Function in Critical Constructivism -- 7. The Logic of Protest -- Conclusion: The Question of Progress -- Notes -- Name Index -- Subject Index

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We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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