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245 00 a| Technology, pessimism, and postmodernism /c| edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendelsohn, and Howard Segal.;

260 a| Amherst :b| University of Massachusetts Press,c| 1995.;

300 a| 216 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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500 a| Originally published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994, in series: Sociology of the sciences ; v. 17.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

505 00 t| Technology, pessimism, and postmodernism : introduction /r| Howard P. Segal --t| The idea of "technology" and postmodern pessimism /r| Leo Marx --t| Technology and the illusion of the escape from politics /r| Yaron Ezrahi --t| Joseph Glanvill's Plus Ultra and beyond : or how to delay the rise of modern science /r| Klaus Reichert --t| A Victorian thunderstorm : lightning protection and technological pessimism in the nineteenth century /r| Ido Yavetz --t| When bad things happen to good technologies : three phases in the diffusion and perception of American telegraphy /r| Menahem Blondheim.;

505 00 t| On the notion of technology as ideology : prospects /r| Robert B. Pippin --t| Belated pessimism : technology and twentieth-century German conservative intellectuals /r| Jeffrey Herf --t| Time and technology in Heidegger's thought /r| Gabriel Motzkin --t| The politics of pessimism : science and technology circa 1968 /r| Everett Mendelsohn --t| The cultural contradictions of high tech : or the many ironies of contemporary technological optimism /r| Howard P. Segal.;

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Technology, pessimism, and postmodernism / edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendelsohn, and Howard Segal.

Other author	Ezrahi, Yaron.
Other author	Mendelsohn, Everett.
Other author	Segal, H. M. (Howard M.)
Format	Book
Publication Info	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
Description	216 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Technology--Social aspects. Technology and state.

Contents	Technology, pessimism, and postmodernism : introduction / Howard P. Segal -- The idea of "technology" and postmodern pessimism / Leo Marx -- Technology and the illusion of the escape from politics / Yaron Ezrahi -- Joseph Glanvill's Plus Ultra and beyond : or how to delay the rise of modern science / Klaus Reichert -- A Victorian thunderstorm : lightning protection and technological pessimism in the nineteenth century / Ido Yavetz -- When bad things happen to good technologies : three phases in the diffusion and perception of American telegraphy / Menahem Blondheim.
Contents	On the notion of technology as ideology : prospects / Robert B. Pippin -- Belated pessimism : technology and twentieth-century German conservative intellectuals / Jeffrey Herf -- Time and technology in Heidegger's thought / Gabriel Motzkin -- The politics of pessimism : science and technology circa 1968 / Everett Mendelsohn -- The cultural contradictions of high tech : or the many ironies of contemporary technological optimism / Howard P. Segal.
General note	Originally published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994, in series: Sociology of the sciences ; v. 17.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN	95008315
ISBN	0870239775 (alk. paper)

Technology, pessimism, and postmodernism / edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendelsohn, and Howard Segal.

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