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• W4366809740 abstract "TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 811 emphasis on the freedom of the individual from boundaries, a view of freedom as negative, runs counter to the major theme in these essays, one of positive freedom. There the individual is encouraged to participate in community planning. David W. Noble Dr. Noble is professor ofAmerican studies and history at the University of Minne­ sota. His first book was The Paradox of Progressive Thought (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958). His ninth (forthcoming) is titled The Death ofa National Landscape: Bourgeois Nationalism and the Crisis of Narrative in American Cultural Criti­ cism, 1890-1990. The Practice ofTechnology: Exploring Technology, Ecophilosophy, and Spiri­ tual Disciplinesfor Vital Links. By Alan R. Drengson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. 195; bibliography, index. $59.50 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback). Alan Drengson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria (Canada) and founder and now managing editor of an envi­ ronmental philosophy journal, The Trumpeter. He has done a great deal to popularize and advance the cause of “deep ecology,” a spe­ cific branch of environmental philosophy and practice. Deep ecolo­ gists, unlike their materialist siblings, the social ecologists, give seri­ ous regard to spiritual disciplines in realizing their vision of an ecosophic (ecologically wise) world. As Drengson indicates in the opening of the book, his abiding interest in the philosophy of tech­ nology is rooted in the early seventies, when he first taught a univer­ sity course on the social consequences of technology. While technol­ ogy is a theme in a number of his published articles, The Practice of Technology is his first sustained examination of technology. The book has a broad sweep, intending to provide a philosophical account of technology and of its social and ecological consequences over time and then to construct a new view of technology, an eco­ sophic one, that is mindful of planetary, psychological, social limits. The book is divided, correspondingly, into two parts. Part one offers a conventional schema for interpreting technology, a gloss on the history of technology and history of thinking about technology, and treatments of important matters such as technological imperatives and the different ways people regard technology. Part two brings the reader from the “Age of Technology” to the “Age of Ecology” through an exploration of limits to technological development, the role of creativity and imagination, and a redefinition of progress, concluding with a presentation of Drengson’s “ecosophic technol­ ogy practice.” We are reminded (rather too) often of technological misdeeds, but the aim of the book is to figure a way out of the mess: “Their solution requires that we redesign whole practices, but be­ 812 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE fore we can do this, we must understand the practice of technology as an integrated, comprehensive activity and process—we must con­ sider the ecology of technology” (p. 26). Ultimately, Drengson’s re­ vision of technology takes a spiritual turn toward practices, such as aikido, that reconnect us with our deepest aspirations and humilities and offer a creative context for modest technologies. In the final chapter, he proposes an “integrated studies in technology” curricu­ lum that pushes his philosophizing to a practical level, a challenge that he holds up throughout the book. My greatest concern about the book is its selective treatment of philosophy of technology, the academic discipline that provides a vital inspiration for the book. While I agree with his estimation of the importance of Friedrich Rapp’s work, Drengson ignores crucial work by philosophers of technology, including Albert Borgmann, Andrew Feenberg, Carl Mitcham, Paul Durbin, Larry Hickman, Da­ vid Strong, HansJonas, Lewis Mumford, andJacques Ellul (who re­ ceives only passing mention). A more comprehensive treatment of these scholars in the context of his important project to connect technology studies with ecological awareness would make for a much stronger scholarly presentation. Drengson presents a panoramic and linear view of historical change in technology, which may put off some historians of technology. These difficulties point to a single issue: lack of clarity about who comprises the audience. For a work such as this, published by a ma­ jor university press, one would expect only limited distribution to a general readership..." @default.
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