Abstract

FISCHETTI, Natalia. Andrew Feenberg’s philosophy of technology and democracy as an emergence from Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory for the XXI Century. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.26, pp.79-88. ISSN 1850-0013.

This article presents Andrew Feenberg, who outlined -for the XXI Century- Herbert Marcuse’s proposal of considering the inseparable link between science, technology and politics under the framework of democracy. Feenberg has continued Marcuse’s work on the bond between science and politics and between technology and ideology. This American thinker asserts that the Marcusean philosophy of technology constitutes a radical sociology of technology that allows us to narrow the gap between essentialist and abstract theories such as Heidegger’s and the frequently uncritical social studies of science. He postulates a connection -utopic, but possible- between democracy and technology, making an important contribution to the search for the democratization of the technological development that prioritizes its political dimension over its ontological one, and the pursuit of a radical transformation of technological goals towards fairer societies

Keywords : Critical theory; Technology; Politics; Democracy.

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