Whale and the Reactor

图书信息

作者	Winner, Langdon
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226902098
出版时间	2010-07-15
字数	39.8万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,法律,政治,宗教

读书简介

"e;The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."e;-David Dickson, New York Times Book Review"e;The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day."e;-Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis

目录

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

I. A Philosophy of Technology

1. Technologies as Forms of Life

2. Do Artifacts Have Politics?

3. Techne and Politeia

II. Technology: Reform and Revolution

4. Building the Better Mousetrap

5. Decentralization Clarified

6. Mythinformation

III. Excess and Limit

7. The State of Nature Revisited

8. On Not Hitting the Tar-Baby

9. Brandy, Cigars, and Human Values

10. The Whale and the Reactor

Notes

Index