Husserl's missing technologies / Don Ihde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ihde, Don, 1934-2024, author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Perspectives in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.

Husserl, Edmund.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 157 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

First encounters with Husserl's phenomenology

Philosophy of technology, technoscience, and Husserl

Where are Husserl's technologies?

Husserl's Galileo needed a telescope!

Embodiment and reading-writing technologies

Whole earth measurements revisited

Dewey and Husserl: consciousness revisited

Adding pragmatism to phenomenology

From phenomenology to postphenomenology

Epistemology engines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823269600

0823269604

9780823269617

0823269612

OCLC:

918594390