Consequences of Phenomenology

Don Ihde is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook as well as Dean of Humanities and Arts. He is the author of a number of books, including Listening and Voice, Experimental Phenomenology, Technics and Praxis, and Existential Technics.

"A noteworthy contribution to the American response to the phenomenological movement. Professor Ihde is one of the leading scholars in American phenomenology today. His approach to the issues under discussion in this work is always fresh and sometimes highly original. What he has to say about perception, metaphor, metaphysics, technics, and technology will be of interest both to the specialist and the general reader." — Calvin O. Schrag"Consequences of Phenomenology is exceedingly significant, not only for an adequate understanding of academic philosophy and the parochialism that has cramped the establishment for forty years, but because it helps us appreciate the ways in which phenomenology can undergird and further the interdisciplinary work which is now abroad in intellectual life." — Bruce Wilshire

• Preface Introduction: Phenomenology in America (1964-1984) Part I. Perceptual Polymorphy1. A Phenomenology of Voice2. Is There Always Perception?3. Phenomenology, "Metaphor-Metaphysics" and the Text Part II. Technics4. Technics: From Progress to Ambiguity5. Technology: Utopia and Dystopia6. Technology and Cultural Variations Part III. Critical Essays7. Ortega y Gassett and Phenomenology8. Variation and Boundary: A Problem in Ricouer's Phenomenology9. Epilogue: Response to Rorty, or, Is Phenomenology Edifying? Notes Index