Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason

Part of the St Antony's Series Book Series

Editors: Castro, José Esteban; Fowler, Bridget; Gomes, Luís

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71519-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-71518-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 1, 2018

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Time and Tide in Sociology

Turner, Charles

Pages: 183 –190

[Hermínio Martins’ 1974 essay on Time and Theory in Sociology was a general survey of a field still dominated by functionalism and its legacies, its opponents and rival schools. The problem of temporality was shown to be either neglected by or endemic to functionalism, but doubts were expressed...
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Transhumanism’s Fabian Backstory: A Companion to Martins’ Later Work

Fuller, Steve

Pages: 191 –207

[Fuller’s chapter anchors Martins’ Firms Markets, Technology and Paths to the Posthuman in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The book partly satirizes Aldous’s brother, Julian Huxley, a ‘missing link’ between Fabian socialism and today’s transhumanism. Julian, who coined ‘transhumanism’ in the...
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Liminal Contexts and Critical Insights: The Cases of McLuhan and Debray

McMylor, Peter

Pages: 209 –230

[Martins raised very early the issue of the impact of the new communications and media technologies on critical thought. To analyse these themes further, it is fruitful to compare two figures—Marshall McLuhan and Régis Debray—whose work reveals particular responsiveness to this transformed...
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Karl Marx: New Perspectives

Kilminster, Richard

Pages: 231 –264

[This chapter explains the significant challenges involved in a reappraisal of the scientific status of Marx as a pioneer in the longer-term development of a relatively detached, independent discipline of sociology. His work is decoupled from forms of Marxism, which tend ideologically either to...
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The ‘Modelling of Speech’ in America and Britain

Mennell, Stephen

Pages: 265 –287

[Stephen Mennell met Hermínio Martins at Harvard in 1966. He reminisces how both were new to America and America new to them. Both began to strive to understand how Americans thought and how they perceived the world. How they spoke was one part of that. In this essay, Mennell takes Norbert...
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The ‘68 Disobedient Generation’ and the Rise of ChiVirLa

Gane, Mike

Pages: 289 –319

[This chapter problematizes the notion of a single ‘disobedient generation’ as an explanatory concept applied to the 1960s student rebellions. Autobiographical accounts by activists reveal considerable heterogeneity of experience and reflection. There were social movements both to the left and to...
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The Information Revolution and Its Implications for Democracy

Whitehead, Laurence

Pages: 321 –345

[This chapter focuses on the implications of the extremely rapid and indeed explosive growth of the global ‘infosphere’ over the past couple of decades (and foreseeably into the medium-term future) and the transformative/disruptive effects it is already having—and will have to a much greater...
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Thinking About Think Tanks: Politics by Techno-Scientific Means

Turner, Stephen P.

Pages: 347 –365

[The creation of think tanks has in part been motivated by the desire for an apolitical politics, a politics of facts and standards rather than a politics of interests and public ignorance, and opposed to political machines. This chapter brings out some of the features of this kind of politics in...

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