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Technology in the Western Political Tradition
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Jerry Weinberger
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English
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2019
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This well-integrated group of thirteen papers addresses the intriguing and perplexing issue of whether modern government can handle the problem of technology.
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Arthur M. Melzer and Jerry Weinberger are professors of political science at Michigan State University. M. Richard Zinman is University Distinguished Professor at James Madison College, Michigan State University and coeditor of Politics and the Turn of the Century and The Public Intellectual. Melzer, Weinberg, and Zinman also edited Democracy and the Arts and History and the Idea of Progress, both from Cornell.
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: The Problem of Technology
1 - Part I. The Emergence of Modern Technology
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1. Technology in Classical Thought
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2. Medieval Christianity: Its Inventiveness in Technology and Science
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3. Technē and the Origins of Modernity
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4. Science and Freedom: America as the Technological Republic
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5. Romanticism and Technology: Satanic Verses and Satanic Mills
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6. Self-Ownership, Communism, and Equality: Against the Marxist Technological Fix
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7. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society
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8. Technicity, Topology, Tragedy: Heidegger on "That Which Saves" in the Global Reach
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9. Postmodernity, Technology, Ontology
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10. Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Technology
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11. Technology and the Problem of Liberal Democracy
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12 The Problem with the "Problem of Technology"
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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November 18, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781501744662
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344
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For a non-specialist adult audience
