Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought

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Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought is written by Caroline Ashcroft and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399535048 (ISBN 10) and 9781399535045 (ISBN 13).

In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic concept of technology, entangled with the apocalyptic fears fuelled by two all-consuming world wars and the looming nuclear threat. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Hannah Arendt, Jacques Ellul, Martin Heidegger and Herbert Marcuse, Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought explores the critical idea of technology as both a response to a dramatically changing world, and a radical political critique of Cold War liberalism.