Technology and the Politics and Knowledge (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology)

...informative, original, and provocative...Many of the writers are major players in defining the contested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies, as well as critical theory and Heidegger studies. Gerald Doppelt's "Technology and the Politics of Knowledge" responds to an ever-growing concern with technology in contemporary social thought. The leading figures in the current philosophical study of technology address such complex and hotly debated issues as the place of science and technical knowledge in the political sphere, the role of individual choice and citizen virtue in a technological society, the relevance of gender to technical innovation, the contributions of Habermas and Heidegger to thinking on technology, and the political and moral implications of innovation in such diverse fields as the media and reproductive technologies. Contributors are: Albert Borgmann, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Dumouchel, Yaron Ezrahi, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Marcel H naff, Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, Helen E. Longino, Robert B. Pippin, Tom Rockmore, Pieter Tijmes, Steven Vogel, Langdon Winner, and Terry Winograd.