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Andrew Feenberg

Critical Constructivism: An Exposition and Defense

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Since publishing Critical Theory of Technology (Feenberg 1991), I have gone on to develop a specifically political philosophy of technology which I now call “critical constructivism.” That approach is based on a number of intellectual traditions, including the Frankfurt School, Heideggerian phenomenology, Marxist labor process theory, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). This eclectic combination…

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The “New” Lukács

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The reception of Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness has always been fraught, even frankly hostile. The early attacks among Marxists in the Soviet Union and Hungary provoked Lukács to write a clarifying “Defense” of his book, but he did not publish it and it has only recently been available. Those early attacks were effective: History and Class Consciousness practically…

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