Don Ihde

Technology and the Lifeworld

From Garden to Earth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A sophisticated celebration of cultural diversity and of its enabling technologies. . . . perhaps the best single volume relating the philosophical tradition to the broad issues raised by contemporary technologies." -Choice

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" -Teaching PhilosophyThe role of tools and instruments in our relation to the earth and the ways in which technologies are culturally embedded provide the foci of this thought-provoking book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780253205605
• ISBN-10: 0253205603
• Artikelnr.: 21225379

Autorenporträt

Don Ihde

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Entry Level
1. From Garden to Earth
2. Technology and the Lifeworld
3. Lifeworld: Praxis and Perception
Heidegger's Hammer
Husserl's Galileo
Merleau-Ponty's Father
4. Adam and Galileo
Lifeworld Technics: Time Perception
Lifeworld Technics: Space Perception
Artifacts and Technofacts
5. Program One: A Phenomenology of Technics
Technics Embodied
Hermeneutic Technics
Alterity Relations
Background Relations
Horizontal Phenomena
Eve and the Spaceship
Dreams of Totalization
6. Program Two: Cultural Hermeneutics
Technology Transfer: Technologies as Cultural Instruments
Neocolonialism as the Failure of Tranfer
"Controlling" Technology
Techology-Culture Embeddedness as Multistable
The Varieties of Technological Experience
Adam and Eve's Culinary Revolution
7. Program Three: Lifeworld Shapes
Pluriculturality
Decisional Burden
Materializing the Conceptual
Oscillatory Phenomena
8. Epilogue: The Earth Inherited
Stwardship Recommendations for the Inherited Earth
To Conserve the Earth
Demythologizing (and Demasculinizing)
Technological Science
Galileo in the Kitchen
Concluding Postscript on Technological Science
Index