Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology)

"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 " . . . informative, original, and provocative. . . . Many of the writers are major players in defining the contested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies as well as critical theory and Heidegger studies." Gerald Doppelt Technology And The Politics Of Knowledge Responds To An Ever-growing Concern With Technology In Contemporary Social Thought. The Leading Figures In The Current Philosophical Study Of Technology Address Such Complex And Hotly Debated Issues As The Place Of Science And Technical Knowledge In The Political Sphere, The Role Of Individual Choice And Citizen Virtue In A Technological Society, The Relevance Of Gender To Technical Innovation, The Contributions Of Habermas And Heidegger To Thinking On Technology, And The Political And Moral Implications Of Innovation In Such Diverse Fields As The Media And Reproductive Technologies. Subversive Rationalization : Thechnology, Power, And Democracy / Andrew Feenberg -- New Science, New Nature : The Habermas-marcuse Debate Revisited / Steven Vogel -- On The Nation Of Technology As Ideology / Robert B. Pippin -- Citizen Virtues In A Technological Order / Langdon Winner -- The Moral Significance Of The Material Culture / Albert Borgmann -- Heidegger On Gaining A Free Relation To Technology / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Heidegger And The Design Of Computer Systems / Terry Winograd -- Heidegger On Technology And Democracy / Tom Rockmore -- Image Technologies And Traditional Culture / Don Ihde -- Technology And The Civil Epistemology Of Democracy / Yaron Ezrahi -- Situated Knowledges : The Science Question In Feminism And The Privilege Of Partial Perspective / Donna Haraway -- Knowledge, Bodies, And Values : Reproductive Technologies And Their Scientific Context / Helen E. Longino -- Sade, The Mechanization Of The Libertine Body, And The Crisis Of Reason / Marcel Hénaff -- The Archimedean Point And Eccentricity : Hannah Arendt's Philosophy Of Science And Technology / Pieter Tijmes -- Gilbert Simondon's Plea For A Philosophy Of Technology / Paul Dumouchel -- A Door Must Be Either Open Or Shut : A Little Philosophy Of Techniques / Bruno Latour. Edited By Andrew Feenberg And Alastair Hannay. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.