Technology and the Lifeworld

From Garden to Earth

By: Don Ihde

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Paperback | 1 May 1990

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244 Pages

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" . . . Dr. Ihde brings an enlightening and deeply humanistic perspective to major technological developments, both past and present." --Science Books & Films

"Don Ihde is a pleasure to read. . . . The material is full of nice suggestions and details, empirical materials, fun variations which engage the reader in the work . . . the overall points almost sneak up on you, they are so gently and gradually offered." --John Compton

"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

" . . . important and challenging . . . " --Review of Metaphysics

" . . . a range of rich historical, cultural, philosophical, and psychological insights, woven together in an intriguing and clear exposition . . . The book is really a pleasure to read, for its style, immense learning and sanity." --Teaching Philosophy

The 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.

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" ... Dr. Ihde brings an enlightening and deeply humanistic perspective to major technological developments, both past and present." Science Books & Films "Don Ihde is a pleasure to read... The material is full of nice suggestions and details, empirical materials, fun variations which engage the reader in the work ... the overall points almost sneak up on you, they are so gently and gradually offered." John Compton "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 " ... important and challenging ... " Review of Metaphysics " ... a range of rich historical, cultural, philosophical, and psychological insights, woven together in an intriguing and clear exposition ... The book is really a pleasure to read, for its style, immense learning and sanity." Teaching Philosophy

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Engineering & Technology Technology in General Philosophy of Science Philosophy

Preface
Introduction: Entry Level
From Garden to Earth
Technology and the Lifeworld
Lifeworld: Praxis and PerceptionHeidegger+s HammerHusserl+s GalileoMerleau-Ponty+s Father
Adam and Galileo Life world Technics: Time Perception Lifeworld Technics: Space Perception Artifacts and Technofacts
Program 1: A Phenomenology of Technics Technics Embodied Hermeneutic Technics Alterity Relations Background Relations Horizontal Phenomena Eve and the Spaceship Dreams of Totalization
Program 2: 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
Program 3: Lifeworld Shapes Pluriculturality Decisional Burden Materializing the Conceptual Oscillatory Phenomena
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
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