Synopsis
Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism: Introduction; H.P. Segal for the Editors. The Idea of `Technology' and Postmodern Pessimism; L. Marx. Technology and the Illusion of the Escape from Politics; Y. Ezrahi. Joseph Glanvill's Plus Ultra and Beyond: Or How to Delay the Rise of Modern Science; K. Reichert. A Victorian Thunderstorm: Lightning Protection and Technological Pessimism in the Nineteenth Century; I. Yavetz. When Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies: Three Phases in the Diffusion and Perception of American Telegraphy; M. Blondheim. On the Notion of Technology as Ideology: Prospects; R.P. Pippin. Belated Pessimism: Technology and Twentieth Century German Conservative Intellectuals; J. Herf. Time and Technology in Heidegger's Thought; G. Motzkin. The Politics of Pessimism: Science and Technology circa 1968; E. Mendelsohn. The Cultural Contradictions of High Tech: Or the Many Ironies of Contemporary Optimism; H.P. Segal.
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