Echoing Richard Rorty’s earlier Consequences of Pragmatism, this collection begins with an essay on Phenomenology in America: 1964-1984, and concludes with a Response to Rorty, or Is Phenomenology Edifying?
In between, the differences in the philosophical habits and practice of Anglo-American and Euro-American philosophers are examined and a reformulated, non-foundational phenomenology is sketched as a new direction responsive to the current situation in American philosophy. Don Ihde considers perception, technics, and contemporary Continental thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Hans Georg Gadamer, Michel Foucault, Ortega y Gassett, and Paul Ricoeur.