The debate of Critical Theory about technology

Authors

  • Ednei de Genaro Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Mestrado) Universidade Federal Fluminensse (Doutorado)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2017.53.2.13

Abstract

The article is divided into three parts. In the first part we commented on the central problematizations about the question of technology in authors of the first generation of Critical Theory – namely in Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. In the second, we analyze how Jürgen Habermas, in Technology and Science as ‘Ideology’, written in 1968, makes up a decisive debate about such problematizations, developing new propositions about it, which would result in a re-neutralization of technology. Lastly, in the third part, we present the contemporary position of Andrew Feenberg on the legacy of the aforementioned authors, clearing up their propositions of Critical Theory of Technology.

Keywords: Critical Theory, technology, Habermas, Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology.

Author Biography

Ednei de Genaro, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Mestrado) Universidade Federal Fluminensse (Doutorado)

Doutor em Comunicação (2015). Mestre em Sociologia Política (2010)

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Published

2017-10-27

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 2 (2017): May/August

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