Since the beginning of modern history, we have been thinking about one question: how to modernize. To answer this question, we may need to clarify first -
What exactly is modern society?
Combing through the history of history, the answer to "what is modernity" is not so clear. Enlightenment thinkers' thinking about equality and rationality formed the foundation of modern social politics and humanistic values, but Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Diderot and others had never seen the Industrial Revolution—they could not detect how the technological innovations represented by the steam engine, railways, etc., would have an earth-shaking impact on human civilization, let alone predict what kind of future automation, informatization and artificial intelligence would lead mankind to.
In all the historical analysis frameworks, we have been ignoring —
The power of technology.
Technology and civilization have always influenced each other. From ancient Greek thinkers in the fifth century B.C. to liberals in the nineteenth century, mass democracy was highly wary, but major technological shifts pushed major governments to expand the scope of suffrage in the 20th century to alleviate the emotional class tensions. In the face of the "hard power" of technology, thinkers have not had time to prepare.
The discussion around "modern society" is full of complex and contradictory concepts. Here we want to put the collision aside and incorporate the observation dimension of "technology" -
How has technology adapted our world over the past two hundred years? What are the important innovation forces in the field of technology? How will we strike a balance between the logic of civilization and the logic of these forces themselves?
At 19:00 on April 9th, Beijing News Book Review Weekly And Culture Living Room co-published the brand "One Page", inviting Zhang Xiaoyu, author of "Technology and Civilization", Wu Guosheng, professor of the Department of Science History of Tsinghua University, and Liu Yu, associate professor of the Department of Political Science of Tsinghua University, to talk:
Technology and enlightenment
How modern society was born
This guest
Zhang Xiaoyu
Researcher of the Center for World Politics Research, East China Normal University. He is the author of "Technology and Civilization" and the translation of "Cambridge Arendt's Guide" and so on.
Wu Guosheng
Professor of the Department of The History of Science at Tsinghua University, Corresponding Academician of the International Academy of the History of Science. He is the author of "The Course of Science", "What is Science", "The Concept of Time" and so on.
Liu Yu
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University. From 2007 to 2010, he taught at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of "The Details of Democracy", "The Water Level of Ideas", "Send You a Bullet" and so on.
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Technology and Civilization
Author: Zhang Xiaoyu
Edition: 1 page 丨 Guangxi Normal University Press, March 2021
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