Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason

We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by...
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Author: Andrew Feenberg
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Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason by Feenberg, Andrew

Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason

$147.03

Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason

$147.03
Author: Andrew Feenberg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 of both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.

Feenberg draws on the tradition of radical social criticism represented by Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School, which recognized the social effects of instrumental rationality but did not advance a convincing alternative to the new forms of domination imposed by rational systems. That is where the fine-grained analyses of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies can contribute. Feenberg uses these approaches to reconcile the claims of rationality with the agency of a public increasingly mobilized to intervene in technically based decisions. The resulting social theory recognizes emerging forms of resistance, such as protests and hacking, as essential expressions of public life in the "rational society."

Combining the most salient insights from critical theory with the empirical findings of STS, Technosystem advances the philosophical debate over the nature and practice of reason in modern society.



Author: Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 10/02/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780674971783


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2018

About the Author
Feenberg, Andrew: - Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and Directeur de Programme in the Collège International de Philosophie.

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