Technology and the Politics of Knowledge

ANDREW FEENBERG teaches philosophy at San Diego State University. His books include Lukacs, Marx, and the Sources of Critical Theory and Critical Theory of Technology. ALASTAIR HANNAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and author of Mental Images: A Defense and Human Consciousness. He is editor of the journal Inquiry.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. Technology as Ideology1. Subversive Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Democracy/Andrew Feenberg2. New Science, New Nature: The Habermas-Marcuse Debate Revisited/Steven Vogel3. On the Notion of Technology as Ideology/Robert B. PippinII. Technology and the Moral Order4. Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order/Langdon Winner5. The Moral Significance of the Material Culture/Albert BorgmannIII. The Question of Heidegger6. Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology/Hubert L. Dreyfus7. Heidegger and the Design of Computer Systems/Terry Winograd8. Heidegger on Technology and Democracy/Tom RockmoreIV. Media Theories: The Politics of Seeing9. Image Technologies and Traditional Culture/Don Ihde10. Technology and the Civil Epistemology of Drmocracy/Yaron EzrahiV. Feminist Perspectives: Knowledge and Bodies11. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective/Donna Haraway12. Knowledge, Bodies, and Values: Reproductive Technologies and Their Scientific Context/Helen E. LonginoVI. Eccentric Positions13. Sade, the Mechanization of the Libertine Body, and the Crisis of Reason/Marcel Henaff14. The Archimedean Point and Eccentricity: Hannah Arendt's Philosophy of Science and Technology/Pieter TijmesVII. The Human and the Non-Human15. Gilbert Simondon's Plea for a Philosophy of Technology/Paul Dumouchel16. A Door Must Either Be Open or Shut: A Little Philosophy of Techniques/Bruno LatourContributorsIndex