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Technology : critical history of a concept
Title
Technology : critical history of a concept / Eric Schatzberg.
ISBN
9780226583839
022658383X
9780226583976
022658397X
9780226584027
Publication
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
344 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: an odd concept
"The trouble with techne": ancient conceptions of technical knowledge
The discourse of ars in the Latin middle ages
Natural philosophy and the mechanical arts in the early modern era
From art to applied science: creating a "semantic void"
Technology in the nineteenth century: a marginal concept
Discourse of Technik: engineers and humanists
Thorstein Veblen's appropriation of Technik
Veblen's legacy: culture versus determinism
Technology in the social sciences before World War II
Science and technology between the world wars
Suppression and revival: technology in World War II and the Cold War
Conclusion: technology as keyword in the 1960s and beyond
Rehabilitating technology: a manifesto.
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