Technology and the Lifeworld - From Garden to Earth

Informationen zum Autor Don Ihde Klappentext " -Teaching PhilosophyThe 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. Zusammenfassung Discusses the role of tools and instruments in our relation to the earth and the ways in which technologies are culturally embedded Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Entry Level 1. From Garden to Earth 2. Technology and the Lifeworld 3. Lifeworld: Praxis and Perception Heidegger's Hammer Husserl's Galileo Merleau-Ponty's Father 4. Adam and Galileo Lifeworld Technics: Time Perception Lifeworld Technics: Space Perception Artifacts and Technofacts 5. Program One: A Phenomenology of Technics Technics Embodied Hermeneutic Technics Alterity Relations Background Relations Horizontal Phenomena Eve and the Spaceship Dreams of Totalization 6. Program Two: 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 7. Program Three: Lifeworld Shapes Pluriculturality Decisional Burden Materializing the Conceptual Oscillatory Phenomena 8. 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

Product details

• Authors: Don Ihde, Ihde Don
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.1990
• EAN: 9780253205605
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20560-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology; Indiana Series in the Philosop; Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology; Philosophy of Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works