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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1986 State University of New York
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Ihde, Don, 1934 Consequences of phenomenology.
1. PhenomenologyAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Title. B829.5.I32 1986 142'.7 85-9818 ISBN 0-88706-141-9 ISBN 0-88706-142-7 (pbk.)
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For Dante Lenea
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Introduction: Phenomenology in America (1964-1984)
1
Part I. Perceptual Polymorphy
1. A Phenomenology of Voice
27
2. Is There Always Perception?
48
3. Phenomenology, "Metaphor-Metaphysics" and the Text
68
Part II. Technics
4. Technics: From Progress to Ambiguity
79
5. Technology: Utopia and Dystopia
92
6. Technology and Cultural Variations
116
Part III. Critical Essays
7. Ortega y Gassett and Phenomenology
137
8. Variation and Boundary: A Problem in Ricouer's Phenomenology
160
9. Epilogue: Response to Rorty, or, Is Phenomenology Edifying?
181
Notes
199
Index
208
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PREFACE
The central essays in this book were written for different occasions. The chapter on Ortega was for a conference at Brooklyn College on his centennial year; the chapter on Ricoeur, a symposium at the University of Toronto on his seventieth year; the chapter on Merleau-Ponty and Foucault for the Merleau-Ponty Circle; etc. When presented as a book the question is always one of what ties these separate reflections together.
The answer was provided by another kind of occasion. Richard Rorty, that enfant terrible of what I shall call the Analytic Establishment (which I shall hereafter dub AE), published two books during this same period, books which affected the very ways we perceive contemporary philosophy in America. The first, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), revised the way in which we might understand what are commonly called Continental and analytic philosophies as the two currently dominant philosophies in America. The second, Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), undertook Rorty's meditations upon the state and recent history of those philosophies in the last couple of decades.
I realized that I had lived through this same history, but from a different place and a different perspective. If Rorty stood on one side of what he called the Analytic-Continental split; I stood on the other. Moreover, in his introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism, Rorty interprets his essays as "attempts to draw consequences from a pragmatist theory about truth." I realized that what I was doing in the essays in the center of this book was to try to draw consequences from phenomenological philosophy: hence the echo of Rorty's title, Consequences of Phenomenology.
Although I had heard much discussion of Rorty's two books before I had time to read them, I received something of a shock when I finally did, especially with respect to the "Analytic-Continental split" in America. For if there is a smaller, but lively "American Continental Establishment" (hereafter ACE), it did not occur or get portrayed in Rorty's account. Continental philosophers were there: Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida, Foucault. But notexcept tucked away in
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a couple of mentionsany American "Continentals." Thus the history which I had experienced was invisible.
The split which Rorty refers to is not absolute, even if it has been talked about for several decades. Rorty himself has been a frequent participant in the debate, but he is not alone. There are many others whose dominant roles have been in AE but who have also had interest in the continental philosophies (Peter Caws, Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, Newton Garver, Charles Taylor, etc.). And the climate in which the split occurred was first that of a crevice in an iceberg which now has melted in some sectors, in part due to the very warmth of controversy by the work of Rorty and others. And many of us "Continental" Americans with analytic training have kept our sympathies open in that direction, too.
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