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  • Technology, Modernity, and Democracy

    Essays by Andrew Feenberg

    Series series Reinventing Critical Theory
    This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.According to critical theory of technology, technologies are neither neutral nor deterministic, but are encoded with specific socio-economic values and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Technosystem

    The Social Life of Reason

    We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization that largely determines our way of life, but the actions of individuals and social protest still play a role in developing and purposing these rational systems. In Technosystem, Andrew Feenberg builds a theory ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Between Reason and Experience

    Essays in Technology and Modernity

    Series series Inside Technology
    A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing

    Nature and Revolution in Marcuse’s Philosophy of Praxis

    How Marcuse helps us understand the ecological crisis of the 21st centuryFor several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world. He became the face of Frankfurt School Critical Theory for a generation in turmoil. His fame rested on two remarkable books, Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man. These two books represent the utopian hopes and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

    This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Transforming Technology

    A Critical Theory Revisited

    Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Questioning Technology

    In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance.In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Heidegger and Marcuse

    The Catastrophe and Redemption of History

    First published in 2005. Herbert Marcuse was Martin Heidegger’s most famous student. He claimed to have left existentialism behind in 1933 when Heidegger was declared first Nazi rector of Freiburg University and Marcuse fled into exile.The contentious relations between these two thinkers reflected the split in twentieth-century continental philosophy between exist- entialism and Marxism. But ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Digital Identities in Tension

    Between Autonomy and Control

    Digital Identities in Tension deals with the ambivalence of universal digitalization. While this transformation opens up new possibilities, it also redistributes the interplay of constraints and incentives, and tends insidiously to create a greater malleability of individuals.Today, companies and states are increasingly engaged in the surveillance and management of our digital identities. In ... Read more

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  • Postphenomenological Investigations

    Essays on Human–Technology Relations

    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD