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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Melzer, Arthur M. / Weinberger, Jerry / Zinman, M. Richard -- Introduction: The Problem of Technology / Kass, Leon R. -- Part I. The Emergence of Modern Technology -- 1. Technology in Classical Thought / Nichols, James H. -- 2. Medieval Christianity: Its Inventiveness in Technology and Science / Jaki, Stanley L. -- 3. Technē and the Origins of Modernity / Rosen, Stanley -- 4. Science and Freedom: America as the Technological Republic / Carey McWilliams, Wilson -- 5. Romanticism and Technology: Satanic Verses and Satanic Mills / Cantor, Paul A. -- Part II. The Destiny of Modern Technology -- 6. Self-Ownership, Communism, and Equality: Against the Marxist Technological Fix / Cohen, G. A. -- 7. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society / Wolin, Sheldon S. -- 8. Technicity, Topology, Tragedy: Heidegger on "That Which Saves" in the Global Reach / Schűrmann, Reiner -- 9. Postmodernity, Technology, Ontology / Vattimo, Gianni -- 10. Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Technology / Galston, William A. -- 11. Technology and the Problem of Liberal Democracy / Weinberger, Jerry -- 12 The Problem with the "Problem of Technology" / Melzer, Arthur M. -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
This well-integrated group of thirteen papers addresses the intriguing and perplexing issue of whether modern government can handle the problem of technology