Technology and the Lifeworld,9780253205605

Technology and the Lifeworld

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ISBN13: 9780253205605
ISBN10: 0253205603
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-06-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary

The 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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction: Entry Level 1(10)
From Garden to Earth
11(10)
Technology and the Lifeworld
21(10)
Lifeworld: Praxis and Perception
31(11)
Heidegger's Hammer
31(3)
Husserl's Galileo
34(4)
Merleau-Ponty's Feather
38(4)
Adam and Galileo
42(30)
Lifeworld Technics: Time Perception
58(6)
Lifeworld Technics: Space Perception
64(4)
Artifacts and Technofacts
68(4)
Program One: A Phenomenology of Technics
72(52)
Technics Embodied
72(8)
Hermeneutic Technics
80(17)
Alterity Relations
97(11)
Background Relations
108(4)
Horizonal Phenomena
112(3)
Eve and the Spaceship
115(3)
Dreams of Totalization
118(6)
Program Two: Cultural Hermeneutics
124(38)
Technology Transfer: Technologies as Cultural Instruments
125(6)
Neocolonialism as the Failure of Transfer
131(8)
``Controlling'' Technology
139(5)
Technology-Culture Embeddedness as Multistable
144(7)
The Varieties of Technological Experience
151(6)
Adam and Eve's Culinary Revolution
157(5)
Program Three: Lifeworld Shapes
162(30)
Pluriculturality
164(13)
Decisional Burden
177(7)
Materializing the Conceptual
184(3)
Oscillatory Phenomena
187(5)
Epilogue: The Earth Inherited
192(33)
Stewardship Recommendations for the Inherited Earth
196(1)
To Conserve the Earth
196(6)
Demythologizing (and Demasculinizing) Technological Science
202(15)
Galileo in the Kitchen
217(1)
Concluding Postscript on Technological Science
218(7)
Index 225

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