Technology
Critical History of a Concept
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1 Introduction: An Odd Concept
2 “The Trouble with Techne”: Ancient Conceptions of Technical Knowledge
3 The Discourse of Ars in the Latin Middle Ages
4 Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts in the Early Modern Era
5 From Art to Applied Science: Creating a “Semantic Void”
6 Technology in the Nineteenth Century: A Marginal Concept
7 Discourse of Technik: Engineers and Humanists
8 Thorstein Veblen’s Appropriation of Technik
9 Veblen’s Legacy: Culture versus Determinism
10 Technology in the Social Sciences before World War II
11 Science and Technology between the World Wars
12 Suppression and Revival: Technology in World War II and the Cold War
13 Conclusion: Technology as Keyword in the 1960s and Beyond
Rehabilitating Technology: A Manifesto
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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