Don Ihde: Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (1976/2007)

“Listening and Voice is an updated and expanded edition of Don Ihde’s groundbreaking 1976 classic in the study of sound. Ranging from the experience of sound through language, music, religion, and silence, clear examples and illustrations take the reader into the important and often overlooked role of the auditory in human life. Ihde’s newly added preface, introduction, and chapters extend these sound studies to the technologies of sound, including musical instrumentation, hearing aids, and the new group of scientific technologies which make infra- and ultra-sound available to human experience.”

First published by Ohio University Press, 1976
Second edition
Publisher SUNY Press, 2007
ISBN 0791472558, 9780791472552
276 pages

Reviews: V. A. Howard (Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1978), Ansa Lønstrup (MedieKultur, 2010).

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Bernard Stiegler: Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (1994–) [EN, ES]

“What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.

The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning. Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality, with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or war, and with its epistemic status changing accordingly. The power that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of the two world wars.

Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkers—Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger, the paleo-ontologist Leroi-Gourhan, the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the sociologists Weber and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela.”

Originally published in French under the title La Technique et le temps. Vol. 1: La faute d’Epiméthée, 1994.

English edition
Translated by Richard Beardsworth and George Collins
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1998
ISBN 0804730415, 9780804730419
316 pages

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Technics and Time 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (English, 1998, updated on 2012-7-19)
La tecnica y el tiempo, I. El Pecado de Epimeteo (Spanish, updated on 2012-7-19)

Evan Selinger (ed.): Postphenomenology. A Critical Companion to Ihde (2006)

“Postphenomenology is the first book devoted exclusively to the interpretation and advancement of prominent phenomenologist Don Ihde’s landmark contributions to history, philosophy, sociology, science, sound studies, and technology studies. Ihde has made a direct and lasting impact on the study of technological experience across the disciplines and acquired an international following of diverse scholars along the way, many of whom contribute to Postphenomenology, including Albert Borgmann, who characterizes Ihde as being “among the most interesting and provocative contemporary American philosophers.” The contributors situate, assess, and apply Ihde’s philosophy with respect to the primary themes that his oeuvre emphasizes. They not only clarify Ihde’s work, but also make significant contributions to the philosophy of technology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of science. A comprehensive response from Ihde concludes the volume.”

Publisher SUNY Press, 2006
ISBN 0791467872, 9780791467879
307 pages

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