The Design Philosophy Reader

The Design Philosophy Reader presents a carefully-curated selection of key texts combined with contextualising editorial introductions to central issues in thinking about design, from the Classical period to the present day. The volume addresses essential topics such as the nature and practice of design, its ethics and politics, design and theories of things, technology and 'seeing', questions of sustainability, and design for a post-human world. Philosophers, social theorists and design thinkers whose work is represented here include Plato, Heidegger, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Judith Butler, Clive Dilnot, Tony Fry, Cameron Tonkinwise, and Rosi Braidotti. Extracts are grouped into eight thematic sections, each with a guide to further reading.