With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German
political and social theory, "Confronting Mass Democracy and
Industrial Technology" provides fresh insight into the thought of
many of the most influential intellectual figures of the twentieth
century. Its essays detail the manner in which a wide range of
German intellectuals grappled with the ramifications and
implications of democracy, technology, knowledge, and control from
the late Kaisserreich to the Weimar Republic, from the Third Reich
and the Federal Republic through recently unified Germany.
Scholars representing the fields of political science, philosophy,
history, law, literature, and cultural studies devote essays to the
work of Nietzsche, Weber, Heidegger, Lukacs, Schmitt, Marcuse,
Adorno, and Habermas. They also discuss the writings of such
figures as Brecht and Freud, who are not primarily thought of as
political theorists, and explore the thought of Helmut Plessner and
reformist theorists from East Germany who have been little studied
in the English language. In the process of debating the nature and
responsibilities of the modern state in an era of mass politics,
unparalleled military technology, capacity for surveillance, and
global media presence, the contributors question whether technology
is best understood as an instrument of human design and collective
control or as an autonomous entity that not only has a will and
life of its own but one that forms the very fabric of modern
humanity.
"Contributors." Seyla Benhabib, Richard J. Bernstein, Peter C.
Caldwell, Richard Dienst, David Dyzenhaus, Andrew Feenberg, Nancy
S. Love, John P. McCormick, Jan-Werner Muller, Gia Pascarelli,
William E. Scheuerman, Steven B. Smith, Tracy B. Strong, Richard
Wolin
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