技术是后现代得以形成的关键要素，后现代是现代性规划及其对待世界的技术态度的完成形态。《理解科学译丛：技术、时间和现代性的会谈》以后现代为背景，对技术进行了深入、系统探索，内容涉及技术理性、技术解释、技术批判、技术与时间等。
　　《理解科学译丛：技术、时间和现代性的会谈》可供涉猎哲学、社会学领域及关注“技术社会”理论与实践的读者阅读参考。

序 言
本书源于长久以来我试图理解和评价现代性的努力。本书带有两类相
互交叉的（研究）兴趣标志：一类是，在科学和技术的外观下，洞悉现代
性所急需的价值；另一类是，对测度我们现代（可能有人认为是后现代）
境况特别重要的努力做出批判性的回应。相应地，本书在当前所关注的一
系列观念和主题下提出关于技术的问题，这些观念和主题包括解释学、批
判理论、理性和相对主义、叙事理论和后现代主义等。
本书的动力来源于这样一种观点：技术是我们对局限性感到不安的体
现，是我们对时间感到不安的体现。技术在实现我们征服时间的愿望方面
的成功已经激励了一种不断弥漫于我们文化中的对待时间的态度。本书正
是要对我们自我理解的态度之后果进行反思。
通过直接比较多种多样的现代性理论论说中提出的议题与技术的批判
性评估中提出的议题，我希望详细阐释一种对技术的系统批判，这种系统
批判可以恰当地处理我们当代的文化和知识状态。我希望本书对那些试图
理解近来关于技术与现代性的争论的人有所帮助。在这个技术进步的世纪
（20 世纪）即将结束的时候，关于技术与现代性的不少争论被记录在我们
所面对的最重要的知识论题中。

目 录
丛书序
序言
致谢
第1 部分 导论
1 质询技术 ····································································································· 3
注释 ·········································································································· 13
2 技术理性的观念 ······················································································· 14
2.1 技术与实践 ······················································································ 14
2.2 技术与科学 ······················································································ 17
2.3 技术的后果 ······················································································ 19
2.4 技术与时间 ······················································································ 23
注释 ·········································································································· 26
第2 部分 科学、语言与经验
3 科学、语言和经验：对自我理解本性之反思 ········································ 37
3.1 科学主义批判 ·················································································· 38
3.2 语言与经验 ······················································································ 40
3.3 科学的“祛世性” ·········································································· 44
注释 ·········································································································· 52
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第3 部分 技术、意义和时间
4 意义与时间：论技术 ··············································································· 59
4.1 论意义与价值 ·················································································· 59
4.2 意义之时间与目的之时间 ······························································· 66
注释 ·········································································································· 78
第4 部分 论批评中重复之应用及其滥用
5 批评中重复之应用 ··················································································· 87
注释 ········································································································ 100
6 批评中重复之滥用 ················································································· 105
注释 ········································································································ 127
7 优势之庸常化：一个现代性对话的插曲 ·············································· 136
7.1 技术之正当性 ················································································ 137
7.2 批评之正当性 ················································································ 159
注释 ········································································································ 183
第5 部分 结论
8 技术和现代性的会谈：后现代主义、技术、伦理学和时间 ··············· 197
8.1 ··········································································································· 198
8.2 ··········································································································· 229
注释 ········································································································ 242