Existential Technics

by Don Ihde

Overview

With Existential Technics, Don Ihde advances his reflections on the role technology plays in human life. Heretofore primarily the province of Continental thinkers, philosophy of technology is a growing preoccupation of North American philosophers. This collection of essays is a philosophical reflection on and critique of human experience from a clearly American perspective guided by phenomenological analysis.

This book is divided into three parts. The first, technics, deals with human interaction with technology and its existential effects. The remaining sections on perception and interpretation examine the imaginative use of phenomenology in the visual and auditory realms of art, music, and intercultural perceptions, and are followed by discussions of contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction theory, particularly in the thought of Heidegger and Derrida.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873956871
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	06/30/1983
Series:	SUNY series in Philosophy
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Don Ihde is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Sense and Significance, Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound, Experimental Phenomenology, and Technics and Praxis.