Andrew Feenberg: Transforming Technology. A Critical Theory Revisited (2002)

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Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor–as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems–is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has shifted to reflect a growing interest in the fields of technology and cultural studies.

Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2002
ISBN 0195146158, 9780195146158
218 pages

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Marxism, critical theory, theory of technology, critique of technology, capitalist, deskilling, Frankfurt School, technological rationality, technoscience, Marx, Minitel, double aspect theory, socialist, Soviet Union, artificial intelligence, public ownership, posthumanist, online education, hegemony, division of labor

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Fifty Major Thinkers on Education. From Confucius to Dewey (2001)

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Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization’s greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Among those included are:

Confucius Plato St. Augustine Eamus John Wesley Immanuel Kant Mary Wollstonecaft Nietzche John Dewey Rudolf Steiner

Together with Fifty Contemporary Thinkers on Education, this book provides an intellectual history of educational thinking, through the ages. Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual’s principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.

Editors Joy Palmer, Liora Bresler, David Edward Cooper
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415231256, 9780415231251
Length 254 pages

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eurhythmics, Al-Ghazzali, Ibn Tufayl, African American, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato, Fichte, Hegel, Louisa May Alcott, John Dewey, Little Women, Bertrand Russell, Socrates, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Binet, Rabindranath Tagore, Dalcroze, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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