Chapter 1 Technology, Philosophy, Politics; Part 1 The Politicizing of Technology; Chapter 2 Technocracy and Rebellion: The May Events of 1968; Chapter 3 Environmentalism and the Politics of Technology; Part 2 Democratic Rationalization; Chapter 4 The Limits of Technical Rationality; Chapter 5 The Problem of Agency; Chapter 6 Democratizing Technology; Part 3 Technology and Modernity; Chapter 7 Critical Theories of Technology; Chapter 8 Technology and Meaning; Chapter 9 Impure Reason;
Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is the author of Alternative Modernity, Critical Theory of Technology, Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory, and co-editor of Technology and the Politics of Knowledge.
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