Netzwerk Phänomenologische Metaphysik

Socialising technology

the archives of István Hajnal

Péter Szirák

pp. 135-147

István Hajnal is one of the most remarkable historians and a forerunner of research on the history of communication. He developed his radical theories on the connections between writing as a technique and social structure mainly in the first half of the twentieth century. He emphasized, in a unique way, the importance of technology for social development arguing that the transformation of social structures and the individual within stand in a mutual and interdependent relation with various technological systems. While doing so he reconsidered Max Weber's concepts of traditionalism and rationalism from a so to speak Heideggerian angle.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11212-008-9053-z

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Szirák, P. (2008). Socialising technology: the archives of István Hajnal. Studies in East European Thought 60 (1-2), pp. 135-147.

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