Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives

175 Pages·2010·9.211 MB·English

by  Don Ihde

Heidegger' s Technologies
Series Board
James Bernauer
Drucilla Cornell
Thomas R. Flynn
Kevin Hart
Richard Kearney
Jean-Luc Marion
Adriaan Peperzak
Thomas Sheehan
Hent de Vries
Merold Westphal
Michael Zimmerman
John D. Caputo, series editor
PERSPECTIVES IN
CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY

DON IHDE
Heidegger's Technologies
Postphenomenological Perspectives
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York • 2010
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Libraty of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ihde, Don, 1934-
Heidegger' s technologies : postphenomenological perspectives I Don Ihde.
p. em.-(Perspectives in Continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-0-8232-3376-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8232-3377-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8232-3378-6 (ebook)
1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 2. Technology-Philosophy. I. Tide.
B3279.H49136 2010
193-dc22
2010020644
Printed in the United States of America
12 11 10 5 4 3 2
First edition
Dedicated to my Technoscience Doctorates:
Paul Thompson, the first
Followed by Evan Selinger
Ken Yip, Robert Rosenberger
Kyle Whyte, and soon, Adam Rosenfeld

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Situating Heidegger
and the Philosophy of Technology 1
1 Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology 28
2 The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology
Over Science 56
3 Deromanticizing Heidegger 74
Interlude: The Earth Inherited 86
4 Was Heidegger Prescient Concerning Technoscience? 91
5 Heidegger's Technologies: One Size Fits All 114
6 Concluding Postphenomenological Postscript:
Writing Technologies 128
Notes 141
Name Index 149
Subject Index 153
ix