Technology in the Western Political Tradition / / ed. by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, Richard Zinman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Cantor, Paul A.,; Carey McWilliams, Wilson,; Cohen, G. A.,; Galston, William A.,; Jaki, Stanley L.,; Kass, Leon R.,; Melzer, Arthur M.,; Nichols, James H.,; Rosen, Stanley,; Schűrmann, Reiner,; Vattimo, Gianni,; Weinberger, Jerry,; Wolin, Sheldon S.,; Zinman, M. Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Melzer, Arthur M.,; Weinberger, Jerry,; Zinman, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: The Problem of Technology --; Part I. The Emergence of Modern Technology --; 1. Technology in Classical Thought --; 2. Medieval Christianity: Its Inventiveness in Technology and Science --; 3. Technē and the Origins of Modernity --; 4. Science and Freedom: America as the Technological Republic --; 5. Romanticism and Technology: Satanic Verses and Satanic Mills --; Part II. The Destiny of Modern Technology --; 6. Self-Ownership, Communism, and Equality: Against the Marxist Technological Fix --; 7. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society --; 8. Technicity, Topology, Tragedy: Heidegger on "That Which Saves" in the Global Reach --; 9. Postmodernity, Technology, Ontology --; 10. Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Technology --; 11. Technology and the Problem of Liberal Democracy --; 12 The Problem with the "Problem of Technology" --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501744662; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501744662
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, Richard Zinman.

This well-integrated group of thirteen papers addresses the intriguing and perplexing issue of whether modern government can handle the problem of technology.