Introduction: an odd concept -- "The trouble with techne": ancient conceptions of technical knowledge -- The discourse of ars in the Latin middle ages -- Natural philosophy and the mechanical arts in the early modern era -- From art to applied science: creating a "semantic void" -- Technology in the nineteenth century: a marginal concept -- Discourse of Technik: engineers and humanists -- Thorstein Veblen's appropriation of Technik -- Veblen's legacy: culture versus determinism -- Technology in the social sciences before World War II -- Science and technology between the world wars -- Suppression and revival: technology in World War II and the Cold War -- Conclusion: technology as keyword in the 1960s and beyond -- Rehabilitating technology: a manifesto.
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