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Andrew Feenberg Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Phone: +1-778-782-5169 Email: feenberg at sfu dot ca |
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Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He has also taught for many years in the Philosophy Department at San Diego State University, and at Duke University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Universities of California, San Diego and Irvine, the Sorbonne, the University of Paris-Dauphine, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Tokyo and the University of Brasilia. Dr. Feenberg is Directeur de Programme at the College Internationale de Philosophie for the period 2013-2019. He is the author of Lukacs,
Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (Rowman and
Littlefield, 1981; Oxford University Press, 1986), Critical
Theory of Technology (Oxford University Press, 1991), Alternative
Modernity (University of California Press, 1995), and Questioning
Technology (Routledge, 1999). A second edition of Critical
Theory of Technology appeared with Oxford in 2002 under the
title Transforming Technology. Heidegger
and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
appeared
in 2005 with Routledge. Between Reason and
Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity appeared with MIT
Press in 2010. The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukacs and the Frankfurt
School was published by Verso Press in 2014. His most recent book, Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, appeared with Harvard University Press in 2017. Translations
of
several of these books are available. Dr. Feenberg is also co-editor
of Marcuse: Critical
Theory and the Promise of Utopia (Bergin
and Garvey Press, 1987), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge
(Indiana University Press, 1995), Modernity and Technology (MIT
Press, 2003), Community in the
Digital Age (Rowman and Littlefield,
2004) and (Re)inventing the Internet (2012) . His co-authored book on the French May Events of 1968
appeared in 2001 with SUNY Press under the title When Poetry
Ruled the Streets. He has also created the May Events Archive
consisting of scanned documents from the events at the Simon Fraser
University library http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/. With William Leiss, Feenberg has edited a
collection entitled The
Essential Marcuse published by Beacon Press. A book on Feenberg's philosophy of technology entitled Democratizing Technology, appeared in 2006. A second book appeared in 2017 entitled Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg. For more on these publications, see https://www.amazon.com/author/andrewfeenberg or consult his personal homepage at www.sfu.ca/~andrewf..
In addition to his work on Critical Theory
and
philosophy of technology, Dr. Feenberg has published on the Japanese
philosopher Nishida Kitaro. He is also recognized as an early innovator
in the field of online
education, a field he helped to create in 1982. He led the TextWeaver
Project on improving software for online discussion forums under
a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education
of the US Department of Education. For the latest web based version
of this software, see http://webmarginalia.net/.
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