Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought - Hardcover
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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...
Caroline Ashcroft is a Lecturer in Politics at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She works in twentieth century political theory and history of political thought, particularly German and Anglo-American. She has previously published widely on Arendt's political ideas, including Violence and Power in Hannah Arendt's Political Thought (2021). Her current research focuses primarily on the...
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