| Husserl's Missing Technologies Contributor(s): Ihde, Don (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823269612 ISBN-13: 9780823269617 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 2015034491 |
| Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 7.8" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Husserl's Missing Technologies looks at the early-twentieth-century "classical" phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, both in the light of the philosophy of science of his time, and retrospectively at his philosophy from a contemporary "postphenomenology." Of central interest are his infrequent comments upon technologies and especially scientific instruments such as the telescope and microscope. Together with his analysis of Husserl, Don Ihde ventures through the recent history of technologies of science, reading and writing, and science praxis, calling for modifications to phenomenology by converging it with pragmatism. This fruitful hybridization emphasizes human-technology interrelationships, the role of embodiment and bodily skills, and the inherent multistability of technologies. In a radical argument, Ihde contends that philosophies, in the same way that various technologies contain an ever-shortening obsolescence, ought to have contingent use-lives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ihde, Don: - Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University. His most recent books include Experimental Phenomenology: Multistability; Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives (Fordham); and Embodied Technics. |