What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to, or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of technologically advanced era in which we live, what sources are available within political theory for theoretical insight concerning the problem of democratic engagement with technology? The purpose of this volume is to canvas a broad range of theorists and theoretical traditions in order to address these questions, including Hegel and Marx, Rousseau and John Dewey, Heidegger and Simone Weil, Habermas and Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas. Commentaries on all these important thinkers — focused on the issue of contemporary technology as posing unique social and political challenges for democratic political life — yields rich and ambitious resources for theoretical reflection.
Ronald Beiner & Richard B. Day
Democratic Theory and Technological Society [PDF ebook]
Democratic Theory and Technological Society [PDF ebook]
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