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Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology
Mccormick, John. Ed(S): Mccormick, John
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Description for Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology
paperback. This is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul. Editor(s): McCormick, John. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; HPC; HPS; JPA; JPHV; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology provides fresh insight into the thought of many of the most influential intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Its essays detail the manner in which a wide range of German intellectuals grappled with the ramifications and implications of democracy, technology, knowledge, and control from the late Kaisserreich to the Weimar Republic, from the Third Reich and the Federal Republic through recently unified Germany.
Scholars representing the fields of political science, philosophy, history, law, literature, and cultural studies devote essays to the work of ... Read more
With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology provides fresh insight into the thought of many of the most influential intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Its essays detail the manner in which a wide range of German intellectuals grappled with the ramifications and implications of democracy, technology, knowledge, and control from the late Kaisserreich to the Weimar Republic, from the Third Reich and the Federal Republic through recently unified Germany.
Scholars representing the fields of political science, philosophy, history, law, literature, and cultural studies devote essays to the work of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327882
SKU
V9780822327882
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About Mccormick, John. Ed(S): Mccormick, John
John McCormick is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology.
Reviews for Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology
“The contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology are a highly diverse yet uniformly first-rate lot. This rich volume is sure to attract scholarly attention in a variety of fields. There is nothing else like it in print.”—Stephen Holmes, New York University School of Law