“…He was a “public intellectual” who championed reflexive social-theoretical observation. Engagement and analysis were integrated in his oeuvre (1956, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2017, 2018; Bischof et al , 2014; Bunzel and Parker, 2009; Muller, 2016; Schraube, 2005). As a phenomenologist turning to “the things themselves,” he focused on the technologies of production, consumption and identity, defending throughout fairness, justice and responsibility.…”