Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg

Darrell P. Arnold is Professor of Philosophy and Program Director of Liberal Studies and Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, FL, and President of the Humanities and Technology Association. Andreas Michel is Professor of German at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA.

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• 1. Introduction.- 2. What is the "Philosophy of Praxis"?.- 3. Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’s “Theory of Reification”.- 4. Gegenständlichkeit – From Marx to Lukács and Back Again.- 5. Feenberg, Rationality and Isolation.- 6. Transforming Dystopia with Democracy: The Technical Code and the Critical Theory of Technology.- 7. Andrew Feenberg’s Ecological Modernism.- 8. Between Instrumentalism and Determinism: Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology and Class Struggle.- 9.  The Question Concerning a Vital Technology: Heideggerian Influences on the Philosophy of Andrew Feenberg.- 10.  Future Questions: Democratic Technology, and the New Converging Technologies.- 11.  Revisiting Critical Theory in the 21st Century.- 12.  Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory and the Critique of Technology.- 13.  A Critical Response – Andrew Feenberg.- ^4. Appendix: Interview with Andrew Feenberg – Interviewed by Bruna Della Torre de Carvalho Lima and Eduardo Altheman Camargo Santos.