Engineering Philosophy
Theories of Technology, German Idealism, and Social Order in High-Industrial Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4019730 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adelheid Voskuhl (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 721-752 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2016.0105 |
| PMID | 28569688 |
| OpenAlex | W2552492248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
During the so-called "Second Industrial Revolution," engineers were constituting themselves as a new social and professional group, and found themselves in often fierce competition with existing elites-the military, the nobility, and educated bourgeois mandarins-whose roots went back to medieval and early modern pre-industrial social orders. During that same time, engineers also discovered the discipline of philosophy: as a means to express their intellectual and social agendas, and to theorize technology and its relationship to art, history, culture, philosophy, and the state. This article analyzes engineers' own philosophical writings about technology as well as the institutions in which they composed them in 1910s and 1920s Germany. It emphasizes engineers' contributions to well-known discourses founded by canonical philosophers, the role of preindustrial economies and their imagination in such philosophies, and the role of both the history and the philosophy of technology in engineers' desire for upward social mobility
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Bourgeoisie · Competition (biology) · Economics · Epistemology · German · Idealism · Industrial Revolution · Order (exchange) · Political science · Social history (medicine) · Social order · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Social technology · Sociology · Bioethics and Human Rights Issues · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Law · Philosophical and Historical Studies · Philosophy
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Autonomous technology
The revolt of the engineers
Bureaucracy, aristocracy, and autocracy
Visions of the Enlightenment
Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics
The Impact of Idealism
Making Technology Masculine
Thinking through Technology
Handbuch Deutscher Idealismus
The Machine in the Garden
Recasting Bourgeois Europe
The Peculiarities of German History
German Idealism
Universitat, Technische Hochschule und Industrie. Ein Beitrag zur Emanzipation der Technik im 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Bestrebungen Felix Kleins
German professions, 1800-1950
The Monied Metropolis
The Politics of Cultural Despair
A Culture of Teaching
New Profession, Old Order
The German Experience of Professionalization
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
Technocracy and the American Dream
Reactionary modernism
What is engineering studies for? Dominant practices and scalable scholarship
German social theory and the hidden face of technology
Developments in the Philosophy of Technology in America
Liberal Education Has Failed
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia
Technik, Ingenieure und Gesellschaft
Steinmetz
Authoritarian and Democratic Technics
Technik Comes to America
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |