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Title Technology in the western political tradition / edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1993.

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 Moore Stacks  JC423 .T35 1993    Available  ---
Description xv, 333 pages ; 24 cm
Note Papers delivered in a lecture series from Oct. 1989 to April 1990, and at a conference held in May 1990, under the auspices of the Political Science Dept., Michigan State University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Technology in classical thought / James H. Nichols, Jr. -- Medieval Christianity / Stanley L. Jaki -- Technē and the origins of modernity / Stanley Rosen -- Science and freedom / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Romanticism and technology / Paul A. Cantor -- Self-ownership, communism, and equality / G. A. Cohen -- Reason in exile / Sheldon S. Wolin -- Technicity, topology, tragedy / Reiner Schürmann -- Postmodernity, technology, ontology / Gianni Vattimo -- Liberal democracy and the problem of technology / William A. Galston -- Technology and the problem of liberal democracy / Jerry Wienberger -- The problem with the "problem of technology" / Arthur M. Melzer
Subject Democracy -- Congresses.
Democracy.
Technology -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
Technology -- Political aspects.
Technology and state -- Congresses.
Technology and state.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Melzer, Arthur M.
Weinberger, Jerry, 1944-
Zinman, M. Richard.
Michigan State University. Political Science Department.
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