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Between Reason and Experience - Essays in Technology and Modernity (Paperback, New Ed)
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Between Reason and Experience - Essays in Technology and Modernity (Paperback, New Ed)
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A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic
coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience. The
technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge
society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain:
climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is
broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about
science, technology, and economics. These problems are exacerbated
by the fact that today powerful technologies have unforeseen
effects that disrupt everyday life; the new masters of technology
are not restrained by the lessons of experience, and accelerate
change to the point where society is in constant turmoil. In
Between Reason and Experience, leading philosopher of technology
Andrew Feenberg makes a case for the interdependence of
reason-scientific knowledge, technical rationality-and experience.
Feenberg examines different aspects of the tangled relationship
between technology and society from the perspective of critical
theory of technology, an approach he has pioneered over the past
twenty years. Feenberg points to two examples of democratic
interventions into technology: the Internet (in which user
initiative has influenced design) and the environmental movement
(in which science coordinates with protest and policy). He examines
methodological applications of critical theory of technology to the
case of the French Minitel computing network and to the
relationship between national culture and technology in Japan.
Finally, Feenberg considers the philosophies of technology of
Heidegger, Habermas, Latour, and Marcuse. The gradual extension of
democracy into the technical sphere, Feenberg argues, is one of the
great political transformations of our time.
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