Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity

Abstract

Foreward by Brian Wynne "Andrew Feenbergs work exploring the various conundrums and openings in the inter-relations of science, technology, and democracy, has been one of the few bodies of thoroughgoing philosophical work that has consistently engaged in constructive struggle with sociology of scientific knowledge and technology, or what is more well-known as science and technology studies (STS). Indeed using a constructivist approach that STS has pioneered often in the teeth of mainstream philosophical complaint, Feenberg has produced many original insights showing how endemic ambiguities, incompleteness, and differences of meaning or purpose in social constructions of technology, all of which call for negotiation and flexibility, and which are in short, political , are routinely reduced to and enacted as matters of expert discovery and fact. However his main contribution has not just been critical in this sense. He has patiently built a considerable body of philosophically informed work that identifies the foundations of an authentic democratic politics of technology..."