Technology and the Lifeworld explores some of the most critical issues relating to the role of technology in the contemporary, multi-cultural world. 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. Don Idhe begins by comparing life in a nontechnological imagined "garden" with our experience in the technologically mediated world. He then offers three programs for understanding the variety of human involvement with technologies. Drawing from the traditions of phenomenology and hermeneutical philosophy, the first program analyzes the diversity of human-technology relations and shows the extent to which is nonneutral. The second program takes up the issue of technology as a cultural instrument, in part through a discussion of indigenous technologies, technology transfer, and neocolonialism. The third program maps the topography of technologies around the world, introducing with the concept of pluriculturality. The book concludes with recommendations fro the reconstruction of modern technological science aimed at preserving the inherited earth.
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Goldman, S. L., Ihde, D., Zimmerman, M. E., & Hickman, L. A. (1991). Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth. Technology and Culture, 32(4), 1135. https://doi.org/10.2307/3106183
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