论费恩伯格的“技术民主化”理论

On Andrew Feenberg's "Democratization Theory of Technology"

运用社会学方法,分析美国技术哲学家安德鲁·费恩伯格的"技术民主化"理论,提出这一理论存在三个主要缺陷:一是对技术理性的改造过于夸大了技术的社会属性,忽视了技术发育的自主性,对技术的社会因素的分析表现出空泛化;二是对参与者利益的分析过于抽象,未看到利益问题的复杂性与国家控制性;三是技术代议制理论存在相冲突之处,表现出外行的大众和技术专家在使技术民主化的动机上表现出不对称性,一个是关注各自的利益,另一个则是对社会和大众的责任伦理。提出这一理论总体上缺乏应有的理论高度,从而起不到预期的社会作用。

Analyzing American philosopher of technology Andrew Fernberg＇s ＂democratization theory of technology＂ through the sociological method, proposing that this theory has three main flaws： First, it has exaggerated technology＇s social attribute, then neglected the independence of technical growth, simultaneously, its analysis of the social factors of technique is general Second, the analysis of the participants＇ interest is too abstract, it has not seen the complexity and the national controlling towards interest; Third, the technical representative system theory is contradiction, which appears the dissymmetry of the motive of layman＇s and experts technical democratization, one pays attention to the respective benefit, and the other pays attention to social and mass＇s responsibility ethics. The proposing of this theory does not reach a theoretical level which it should have, thus failed to play the anticipated social function.