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Der Verlust einer zusammenhiingenden Wiedergabe der Gedankenfiihrung der einzelnen Autoren wird so durch eine thematische Synopsis aufgewogen. Die hier dargestellten Uberlegungen der sowjetischen Autoren lassen sich etwa mit der Kategorialanalyse N. Hartmanns vergleichen. Ihre Ausfiihrungen zeigen oft originelle Gedanken, die aber nicht immer hin- reichend kritisch reflektiert sind. 1m Gesamtbild treten dabei interessante Ergebnisse zutage, die auch fiir den westlichen Fachgelehrten von Interesse sein diirften. Die beriicksichtigten Arbeiten stammen von Philosophen aus der Sowjetunion. (Bine Ausnahme bildet nur der Artikel von P. O. Gropp (Leipzig) in Voprosy Filosofii, der in der Sowjetunion als Diskussions- beitrag gewertet wurde.) Da die Sowjetphilosophen sich iibereinstimmend zum dialektischen Materialismus bekennen, werden 'Sowjetphilosophie' und 'dialektischer Materialismus' stets als Synonyme benutzt. 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This is to say that in all complex cases theoretical reasoning becomes an indispensable means to accomplish the pragmatic technological aims. Hence the abstracting from the actual concrete function of technology opens the way to concentrate attention on the general conceptual framework involved. If this approach is adopted the relevant knowledge and the procedures applied clearly exhibit a logic of their own. This point of view leads to a methodological and even an epistemological analysis of the theoretical structure and the specific methods of procedure characteristic of modern technology. Investigations of this kind, that can be described as belonging to an ana- lytical philosophy of technology, form the topic of this anthology. The type of research in question here is closely akin to that of the philosophy of science. 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Despite the pro- found thinkers who have devoted time and imagination and ratio- nal penetration, despite the massive literature now available, the varied and comparative viewpoints of political, analytic, despite metaphysical, cultural, even esthetic commitments, indeed despite the honest joining of historical and systematic methods of inves- tigation, we are far from a satisfactory understanding of the joys and sorrows, the achievements and disappointments, of the tech- nological saga of human societies. Professor Rapp has prepared this report on the philosophical understanding of technology for a troubled world; if ever philosophy were needed, it is in the prac- tical attempt to find alternatives among technologies, to foresee dangers and opportunities, to choose with a sense of the possibil- ity of fulfilling humane values. 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