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.)

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

Table of Contents

• 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