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Technology : critical history of a concept / Eric Schatzberg.
LIBRA T15 .S343 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schatzberg, Eric, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--History.
- Technology.
- History.
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 344 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction: an odd concept
- "The trouble with techne": ancient conceptions of technical knowledge
- The discourse of ars in the Latin middle ages
- Natural philosophy and the mechanical arts in the early modern era
- From art to applied science: creating a "semantic void"
- Technology in the nineteenth century: a marginal concept
- Discourse of Technik: engineers and humanists
- Thorstein Veblen's appropriation of Technik
- Veblen's legacy: culture versus determinism
- Technology in the social sciences before World War II
- Science and technology between the world wars
- Suppression and revival: technology in World War II and the Cold War
- Conclusion: technology as keyword in the 1960s and beyond
- Rehabilitating technology: a manifesto.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226583839
- 022658383X
- 9780226583976
- 022658397X
- OCLC:
- 1028590824
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