Democratizing technology: Interests, codes, rights

Journal of Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 177-195

  Feenberg, Andrew ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Philosophy of technology; Political philosophy; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044442766     PISSN: 13824554     EISSN: 15728609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011908323811     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. J.-J. Rousseau, Du Contrat Social (Paris: Garniers, 1962), p. 35 (my translation).
2. For a survey of the evolution of the field, see Andrew Feenberg, Questioning Technology (London and New York: Routledge, 1999) (hereinafter referred to as QT), Chapter 1.
3. See G. Doppelt, "Rawls' System of Justice: A Critique from the Left," Nous 15 (1981), pp. 259-307.
4. Feenberg, QT, pp. 218-219.
5. Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
6. See Albert Borgman, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984);
7. and Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
8. Names that come to mind in these connections include Alasdair Mclntyre, Martha Nussbaum, and Amartya Sen.
9. Nevertheless, the issue of human capacities is extensively discussed in Andrew
10. Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) (here-inafter referred to as CTT). See pp. 30, 39, 93-95, 126, 149-153.
11. See also Feenberg, QT, pp. 220, 221.
12. This approach is discussed in Feenberg, CTT, pp. 143ff.
13. and Feenberg, QT, pp. 97ff.
14. For a discussion of John Locke's notion of property rights, see A. John Simmons, "Marker's Rights," The Journal of Ethics 2 (1998), pp. 197-218.
15. See Feenberg, CTT, pp. 28-29, 79-80;
16. Feenberg, QT, p. 103.
17. I say as much: "All forms of public acitvity and participation should be sanctioned as democratic so long as they respect civil rights" [Andrew Feenberg, Alternative Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 9] (hereinafter referred to as AM).
18. I mention these issues in Feenberg, CTT, p. 25. I discuss technocracy at length in
19. Feenberg, AM, Chapter 4 and Feenberg, QT, Chapter 2.
20. Feenberg, CTT, p. 108;
21. Feenberg, AM, pp. 231-232;
22. Feenberg, QT, p. 141.
23. Feenberg, CTT, pp. 195ff.
24. Feenberg, QT, p. 81.
25. Feenberg, CTT, pp. 134ff.;
26. Feenberg, QT, pp. 86-87.
27. Feenberg, QT, pp. 220, 98, 105.
28. Feenberg, QT, pp. 91ff.
29. Feenberg, AM, pp. 107-108, 102-103, 118.
30. Andrew Feenberg and Maria Bakardjieva, "Community Technology and Democratic Rationalization," The Information Society Journal, forthcoming.
31. Feenberg, CTT, p. 15.
32. Feenberg, AM, p. 6.