Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-9436-2 • Hardback • May 2015 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
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Robert Rosenberger is assistant professor of philosophy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Peter-Paul Verbeek is professor of philosophy of technology and chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Twente.
1. A Field Guide to Postphenomenology, Robert Rosenberger & Peter-Paul Verbeek
2. Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics, Lenore Langsdorf
3. What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment: A Note on the Extension Thesis, Kirk M. Besmer
4. Thinking Technology With Merleau-Ponty, Aud Sissel Hoel & Annamaria Carusi
5. Movies and Bodies: Variations of the Embodied Self in Science-Fiction Techno Fantasies, Marie-Christine Nizzi
6. Bodies as Technology: How Can Postphenomenologists Deal with the Matter of Human Technique?, Fernando Secomandi
7. Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation, Asle H. Kiran
8. Tracing the Tracker: A Postphenomenological Inquiry into Self-Tracking Technologies, Yoni Van Den Eede
9. A Century on Speed: Reflections on Movement and Mobility in the 20th Century, Søren Riis
10. Searching for Alterity: What Can We Learn From Interviewing Humanoid Robots? Frances Bottenberg
11. Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student, Chris Kaposy
12. Mediating Multiplicity: Brain-Dead Bodies and Organ Transplant Protocols, Adam M. Rosenfeld
13. Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis
14. Making the Gestalt Switch, Andrew Feenberg
15. Postphenomenology with an Eye to the Future, Diane Michelfelder
16. Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology, Albert Borgmann
This book is a major contribution to the sparse body of knowledge in the Western philosophical tradition dealing with the foundations of a field of scholarly research. Here the case is so-called postphenomenology, which owes so much to Don Ihde, who provides a brilliant introduction. The two co-editors are equally important, and represent researchers in both the United States and Europe, whose contributions constitute much of the volume.
— Paul Durbin, University of Delaware
This anthology is an absolute must for newcomers as well as those versed in the field and its discussions. The book shows how far the burgeoning field of postphenomenological analysis has come since the broader and largely technology-deterministic approaches made by the phenomenological predecessors, most prominently Martin Heidegger. Both novices and those already acquainted with this philosophical style of analysis get plenty of new food for thought in essays addressing technological agency, speed, ethics, humanoid robots, bodies, science fiction, politics, philosophy of design, and scientific practice, as well as a number of brilliantly executed and informative case studies.
— Cathrine Hasse, University of Aarhus