This critical reader brings together both essential as well as underrecognized writings from the work of Don Ihde one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.Don Ihde is one of the worlds foremost thinkers on the place of technologies in our lives. Over the course of a long career he has built a unique and useful perspective by expanding on phenomenological and American pragmatist philosophy and has developed wideranging insights and conceptual tools for describing the details of our experience across the various areas of human activity including scientific practice anthropological history computer interface design art history and the technologies of everyday life. The Critical Ihde brings together many of Ihdes most influential writings as well as a number of underrecognized gems. Across these works are examples of his influential contributions to the phenomenology of human auditory and visual experience his foundational work on the phenomenology of technology and his thoughts on the technologies of scientific practice including laboratory and medical imaging. Further these chapters reveal the development of postphenomenology Ihdes original philosophical perspective one that continues to flourish today across the work of a growing interdisciplinary and international collective of scholars.