Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives

Author:   Don Ihde
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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9780823233762


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 September 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Heidegger is the only thinker of his generation whose philosophy of technology is still widely read today. In it, he made three basic claims. First, he asserted that the essence of technology is not technological--that technology is not a neutral instrumentality. Second, he claimed that there is a qualitative difference between modern and traditional technologies. Third and most interestingly, he claimed that technology is a metaphysical perspective, a paradigmatic view of the whole of nature. Although Martin Heidegger remains recognized as a founder of the philosophy of technology, in the last sixty years a whole new world of technologies has appeared—bio-, nano-, info-, and imaging. With technology, time moves fast. Does philosophical time move, too? How adequate is Heidegger’s thinking now for understanding today’s technological advances? After an extensive Introduction that places Heidegger within the thinking about technology typical of his time, the author, a prominent philosopher of technology, reexamines Heidegger’s positions from multiple perspectives—historical, pragmatic, anti-Romantic and postphenomenological. His critiques invert Heidegger’s essentialism and phenomenologically analyze Heidegger’s favored and disfavored technologies. In conclusion, he undertakes a concrete analysis of the technologies Heidegger used to produce his writing and discovers heretofore undiscussed and ironic results. Overall, the book not only serves as an excellent introduction Heidegger’s philosophy of technology and a corrective in outlining its limitations, it indicates a postphenomenological counter-strategy for technological analysis, one that would look at the production of technology in practice, based on observing its forms of embodied activity.

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Author:   Don Ihde
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780823233762


ISBN 10:   0823233766
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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<br>Heidegger's technologies is a versatile and refreshing critique of Heidegger's views on technology. The book embodies a fascinating discussion between two of the most prominent voices in philosophy of technology- one from the past, the other from the present. Without any doubt, Don Ihde's compelling and often ironic reflections will inspire new directions in philosophy of technology.-Peter-Paul Verbeek<p><br>Don Ihde is one of the most influential philosophers of the last quarter of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and the essays collected here contain some of his best, and adequately reflect his dependence on, but also his developments away from Heidegger. The book is thus likelyto find the wide audience it deserves.-Paul Durbin<p><br> As is typical of Ihde's writings, the prose is clear and crisp as he discusses fairly sophisticated ideas without lapsing into jargon or vagueness. The book manages to be clear enough that it could be used in an advanced undergraduat


<br>Heidegger's technologies is a versatile and refreshing critique of Heidegger's views on technology. The book embodies a fascinating discussion between two of the most prominent voices in philosophy of technology- one from the past, the other from the present. Without any doubt, Don Ihde's compelling and often ironic reflections will inspire new directions in philosophy of technology.-Peter-Paul Verbeek<p><br>Don Ihde is one of the most influential philosophers of the last quarter of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and the essays collected here contain some of his best, and adequately reflect his dependence on, but also his developments away from Heidegger. The book is thus likelyto find the wide audience it deserves.-Paul Durbin<p><br> As is typical of Ihde's writings, the prose is clear and crisp as he discusses fairly sophisticated ideas without lapsing into jargon or vagueness. The book manages to be clear enough that it could be used in an advanced undergraduate class, but substantial and provocative enough to be useful for graduate students of researchers in the field. --Choice<p><br>... an interesting book that aims to free philosophers to confront the reality of the technological problem. --Andrew Feenberg, Tecnology and Culture<p><br>


Heidegger's technologies is a versatile and refreshing critique of Heidegger's views on technology. The book embodies a fascinating discussion between two of the most prominent voices in philosophy of technology- one from the past, the other from the present. Without any doubt, Don Ihde's compelling and often ironic reflections will inspire new directions in philosophy of technology.-Peter-Paul VerbeekDon Ihde is one of the most influential philosophers of the last quarter of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and the essays collected here contain some of his best, and adequately reflect his dependence on, but also his developments away from Heidegger. The book is thus likelyto find the wide audience it deserves.-Paul Durbin As is typical of Ihde's writings, the prose is clear and crisp as he discusses fairly sophisticated ideas without lapsing into jargon or vagueness. The book manages to be clear enough that it could be used in an advanced undergraduate class, but substantial and provocative enough to be useful for graduate students of researchers in the field. --Choice... an interesting book that aims to free philosophers to confront the reality of the technological problem. --Andrew Feenberg, Technology and Culture This book is a very good introductory text on Heidegger's philosophy of technology, and I would say also of Heidegger's thought in general. -Minds & Machines


Heidegger's technologies is a versatile and refreshing critique of Heidegger's views on technology. The book embodies a fascinating discussion between two of the most prominent voices in philosophy of technology- one from the past, the other from the present. Without any doubt, Don Ihde's compelling and often ironic reflections will inspire new directions in philosophy of technology. -- -Peter-Paul Verbeek Twente University This book is a very good introductory text on Heidegger's philosophy of technology, and I would say also of Heidegger's thought in general. -Minds & Machines Don Ihde is one of the most influential philosophers of the last quarter of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and the essays collected here contain some of his best, and adequately reflect his dependence on, but also his developments away from Heidegger. The book is thus likely to find the wide audience it deserves. -- -Paul Durbin University of Delaware


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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.

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