Description
Book SynopsisThis highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1 Perspectives on Technology
Part 1: Approaching the Imperative
2 T.C. Keefer, T.C. Haliburton, Sandford Fleming, and Alexander Graham Bell: Technology as Railways, Communication Media, and Time
3 Advocates of Technical Education: Technology as Knowledge
Part 2: Grappling with the Imperative
4 George Stanley Brett and the Debate on Technology as War: Technology Dethroned
5 William Lyon Mackenzie King and Frederick Philip Grove: Technology as Industrialism
6 Stephen Leacock and Archibald Lampman: Technology as Mechanization
Part 3: Philosophizing the Imperative
7 Harold A. Innis and Eric Havelock: Technology as Power
8 Marshall McLuhan: Making Sense(s) of Technology
9 Northrop Frye and E.J. Pratt: Technology as Mythology
10 George Grant and Dennis Lee: Technology as Being
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
