Heidegger' s Technologies Series Board James Bernauer Drucilla Cornell Thomas R. Flynn Kevin Hart Richard Kearney Jean-Luc Marion Adriaan Peperzak Thomas Sheehan Hent de Vries Merold Westphal Michael Zimmerman John D. Caputo, series editor PERSPECTIVES IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY DON IHDE Heidegger's Technologies Postphenomenological Perspectives FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York • 2010 Copyright© 2010 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy ofURLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Libraty of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ihde, Don, 1934- Heidegger' s technologies : postphenomenological perspectives I Don Ihde. p. em.-(Perspectives in Continental philosophy) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3376-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-3377-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-3378-6 (ebook) 1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 2. Technology-Philosophy. I. Tide. B3279.H49136 2010 193-dc22 2010020644 Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 First edition Dedicated to my Technoscience Doctorates: Paul Thompson, the first Followed by Evan Selinger Ken Yip, Robert Rosenberger Kyle Whyte, and soon, Adam Rosenfeld Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Situating Heidegger and the Philosophy of Technology 1 1 Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology 28 2 The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology Over Science 56 3 Deromanticizing Heidegger 74 Interlude: The Earth Inherited 86 4 Was Heidegger Prescient Concerning Technoscience? 91 5 Heidegger's Technologies: One Size Fits All 114 6 Concluding Postphenomenological Postscript: Writing Technologies 128 Notes 141 Name Index 149 Subject Index 153 ix