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How Marcuse helps us understand the ecological crisis of the 21st century

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Modern industrial society is an experiment with a brief past and an uncertain future. In less than two centuries, technology has transformed the globe and given the human race the power to realize its highest ideals or destroy itself. "Questioning Technology" offers the recognition of the democratic significance of public intervention into technical life We see that the rise and advance of information technology accounts for technologies ultim...

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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.

Questioning Reality convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it and manage it.

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Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governme...

The early Marx called for the "realization of philosophy" through revolution. Revolution thus became a critical concept for Marxism, a view elaborated in the later praxis perspectives of Lukacs and the Frankfurt School. These thinkers argue that fundamental philosophical problems are, in reality, social problems abstractly conceived. Originally published as Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory, The Philosophy of Praxis traces the ev...

This fine collection of essays from a diverse group of authors expounding on a wide variety of subjects presents a generous sampling of the new philosophy of technology." -Choice

Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governme...

More than a history, this book is a passionate reliving of the French May Events of 1968. The authors, ardent participants in the movement in Paris, documented the unfolding events as they pelted the police and ran from the tear gas grenades. Their account is imbued with the impassioned efforts of the students to ignite political awareness throughout society. Feenberg and Freedman select documents, graffiti, brochures, and posters from the mov...

More than a history, this book is a passionate reliving of the French May Events of 1968. The authors, ardent participants in the movement in Paris, documented the unfolding events as they pelted the police and ran from the tear gas grenades. Their account is imbued with the impassioned efforts of the students to ignite political awareness throughout society. Feenberg and Freedman select documents, graffiti, brochures, and posters from the mov...

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Distinguished scholars--Jurgen Habermas, Claus Offe, Douglas Kellner, and Martin Jay, among others--draw upon historical, theoretical, and biographical information to assess Marcuse's philosophy, from its grounding in classical German idealism, through the break with Heidegger, to his role in the American counterculture of the sixties and seventies. Indispensable for anyone interested in an in-depth understanding of one of the most burning iss...

This fine collection of essays from a diverse group of authorsexpounding on a wide variety of subjects presents a generous sampling of the newphilosophy of technology." -- Choice ..". informative, original, and provocative.... Many of the writers are major players in defining thecontested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies as well ascritical theory and Heidegger studies." -- Gerald Doppelt

A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.