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The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

Langdon Winner

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UPC:
9780226902111
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1989-12-21
Release Date:
1988-01-15
Author:
Langdon Winner
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time. David Dickson, New York Times Book Review

The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis