12 The Problem with the "Problem of Technology"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: The Problem of Technology 1
5. Part I. The Emergence of Modern Technology
6. 1. Technology in Classical Thought 27
7. 2. Medieval Christianity: Its Inventiveness in Technology and Science 46
8. 3. Technē and the Origins of Modernity 69
9. 4. Science and Freedom: America as the Technological Republic 85
10. 5. Romanticism and Technology: Satanic Verses and Satanic Mills 109
11. Part II. The Destiny of Modern Technology
12. 6. Self-Ownership, Communism, and Equality: Against the Marxist Technological Fix 131
13. 7. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society 162
14. 8. Technicity, Topology, Tragedy: Heidegger on "That Which Saves" in the Global Reach 190
15. 9. Postmodernity, Technology, Ontology 214
16. 10. Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Technology 229
17. 11. Technology and the Problem of Liberal Democracy 253
18. 12 The Problem with the "Problem of Technology" 287
19. Notes on Contributors 323
20. Index 327