Technology In The Western Political Tradition

Author : Jerry Weinberger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744666
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in the Western Political Tradition written by Jerry Weinberger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-integrated group of thirteen papers addresses the intriguing and perplexing issue of whether modern government can handle the problem of technology.

Author : Jason Kuznicki
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319839950
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and the End of Authority written by Jason Kuznicki and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa written by Jack Goody and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vukan Kuic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847696130
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yves R. Simon written by Vukan Kuic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long overdue analysis of Yves R. Simon's profound contribution to the theory and practice of democracy. Prominent scholar Vukan Kuic, who has edited several of Simon's posthumous volumes, analyzes Simon's treatment of the functions of government, his theories of democratic liberty and equality, and his concerns about the problems that modern technology presents for democracy.

Author : Graeme Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526105330
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical politics written by Graeme Kirkpatrick and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Technology often plays an ambiguous role in theories of social change. Viewed by Karl Marx as the driving force of historical progress, it has come to be associated with exploitation and alienation, thanks in large part to the work of Frankfurt School critical theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. Andrew Feenberg is an unusual figure: a critical theorist with an essentially optimistic view of technology. His concept of ‘technical politics’ puts technology design at the heart of disputes over the future shape of society. This book provides the first sustained critique of Feenberg’s work, describing how it has developed from the tradition of Marx and Marcuse and analysing the key ideas of formal bias, ambivalence, progressive rationalisation and primary and secondary instrumentalisation. Identifying the limitations resulting from Feenberg’s attachment to critique, the book offers a utopian corrective that can provide a fuller account of the process of willed technological transformation and of the author’s own idea of a technologically authorised socialism.

Author : James N. Rosenau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489450
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Technologies and Global Politics written by James N. Rosenau and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how information technologies may be shifting power and authority away from the state.

Author : Arthur M. Melzer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744674
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and the Idea of Progress written by Arthur M. Melzer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Francis Fukuyama's article, "The End of History?" prompted a wave of public debates about democracy, progress, and the idea of history. In this book, twelve distinguished cultural commentators offer a brilliant array of responses to those debates. Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters—none of which has appeared elsewhere—include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics.

Author : John P. McCormick
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327882
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology written by John P. McCormick and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology provides fresh insight into the thought of many of the most influential intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Its essays detail the manner in which a wide range of German intellectuals grappled with the ramifications and implications of democracy, technology, knowledge, and control from the late Kaisserreich to the Weimar Republic, from the Third Reich and the Federal Republic through recently unified Germany. Scholars representing the fields of political science, philosophy, history, law, literature, and cultural studies devote essays to the work of Nietzsche, Weber, Heidegger, Lukács, Schmitt, Marcuse, Adorno, and Habermas. They also discuss the writings of such figures as Brecht and Freud, who are not primarily thought of as political theorists, and explore the thought of Helmut Plessner and reformist theorists from East Germany who have been little studied in the English language. In the process of debating the nature and responsibilities of the modern state in an era of mass politics, unparalleled military technology, capacity for surveillance, and global media presence, the contributors question whether technology is best understood as an instrument of human design and collective control or as an autonomous entity that not only has a will and life of its own but one that forms the very fabric of modern humanity. Contributors. Seyla Benhabib, Richard J. Bernstein, Peter C. Caldwell, Richard Dienst, David Dyzenhaus, Andrew Feenberg, Nancy S. Love, John P. McCormick, Jan-Werner Müller, Gia Pascarelli, William E. Scheuerman, Steven B. Smith, Tracy B. Strong, Richard Wolin

Author : James Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429966326
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering American Liberalism written by James Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago Louis Hartz surveyed American political thought in his classic The Liberal Tradition in America. He concluded that American politics was based on a broad liberal consensus made possible by a unique American historical experience, a thesis that seemed to minimize the role of political conflict.Today, with conflict on the rise and with much of liberalism in disarray, James P. Young revisits these questions to reevaluate Hartz's interpretation of American politics. Young's treatment of key movements in our history, especially Puritanism and republicanism's early contribution to the Revolution and the Constitution, demonstrates in the spirit of Dewey and others that the liberal tradition is richer and more complex than Hartz and most contemporary theorists have allowed.The breadth of Young's account is unrivaled. Reconsidering American Liberalism gives voice not just to Locke, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln, and Dewey but also to Rawls, Shklar, Kateb, Wolin, and Walzer. In addition to broad discussions of all the major figures in over 300 years of political thought?with Lincoln looming particularly large?Young touches upon modern feminism and conservatism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, rights-based liberalism, and social democracy. Out of these contemporary materials Young synthesizes a new position, a smarter and tougher liberalism not just forged from historical materials but reshaped in the rough and tumble of contemporary thought and politics.This exceptionally timely study is both a powerful survey of the whole of U.S. political thought and a trenchant critique of contemporary political debates. At a time of acrimony and confusion in our national politics, Young enables us to see that salvaging a viable future depends upon our understanding how we have reached this point.Never without his own opinions, Young is scrupulously fair to the widest range of thinkers and marvelously clear in getting to the heart of their ideas. Although his book is a substantial contribution to political theory and the history of ideas, it is always accessible and lively enough for the informed general reader. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of U.S. political thought or, indeed, about the future of the country itself.

Author : Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030231208
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Epistemology written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of the ideological dimensions of the disciplinary discourses on science in line with the scholarly tradition of historical epistemology. It offers a programmatic treatment of the political-epistemological problematic along three entangled lines of inquiry: socio-historical, epistemological and historiographical. The book aims for a meta-level integration of the existing scholarship on the social and cultural history of science in order to consider the ways in which struggles for hegemony have constantly informed scientific discourses. This problematic is of primary relevance for scholars in Science Studies, philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, but would also be relevant for anybody interested in scientific culture and political theory.