@article{1477795,
      recid = {1477795},
      author = {Ihde, Don, },
      title = {Heidegger's Technologies : Postphenomenological  Perspectives /},
      pages = {1 online resource (176 p.)},
      abstract = {Heidegger is the only thinker of his generation whose  philosophy of technology is still widely read today. In it,  he made three basic claims. First, he asserted that the  essence of technology is not technological--that technology  is not a neutral instrumentality. Second, he claimed that  there is a qualitative difference between modern and  traditional technologies. Third and most interestingly, he  claimed that technology is a metaphysical perspective, a  paradigmatic view of the whole of nature. Although Martin  Heidegger remains recognized as a founder of the philosophy  of technology, in the last sixty years a whole new world of  technologies has appeared-bio-, nano-, info-, and imaging.  With technology, time moves fast. Does philosophical time  move, too? How adequate is Heidegger's thinking now for  understanding today's technological advances? After an  extensive Introduction that places Heidegger within the  thinking about technology typical of his time, the author,  a prominent philosopher of technology, reexamines  Heidegger's positions from multiple  perspectives-historical, pragmatic, anti-Romantic and  postphenomenological. His critiques invert Heidegger's  essentialism and phenomenologically analyze Heidegger's  favored and disfavored technologies. In conclusion, he  undertakes a concrete analysis of the technologies  Heidegger used to produce his writing and discovers  heretofore undiscussed and ironic results. Overall, the  book not only serves as an excellent introduction  Heidegger's philosophy of technology and a corrective in  outlining its limitations, it indicates a  postphenomenological counter-strategy for technological  analysis, one that would look at the production of  technology in practice, based on observing its forms of  embodied activity.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477795},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291724},
}