Postphenomenological investigations : essays on human-technology relations / edited by Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenberger, Robert (Robert Joseph), editor.

Verbeek, Peter-Paul, 1970- editor.

Series:

Postphenomenology and the philosophy of technology.

Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Technology.

Phenomenology.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Title Page; Preface; Introduction; A Postphenomenological Field Guide; A Field Guide to Postphenomenology; Postphenomenological Theories; Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics; What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment; Thinking Technology with Merleau-Ponty; Movies and Bodies; Bodies as Technology; Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation; Postphenomenological Cases; Tracing the Tracker; A Century on Speed; Searching for Alterity; Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student; Mediating Multiplicity; Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling; Critical Interlocutors

Making the Gestalt SwitchPostphenomenology with an Eye to the Future; Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-9438-0