by Michael van Manen | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
In his evocative text The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard employs the notion of the “poetic image” to refer to that special epiphanic oneiric quality of language that brings about in the reader a vocative response. The power of a phenomenological text resides in...
by Michael van Manen | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
What makes phenomenology rewarding is that it is pleasurable to read about existential insights: to passively and actively read and write insightful sources. In his book The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes (1975) reminds us that the act of reading and writing...
by Michael van Manen | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
Cixous repeatedly expresses her wariness of reductive language that would simplify her practice of écriture feminine. Still, she makes clear that she wishes to offer new ways of writing and speaking, and that she writes to women: “I write this as a woman, towards...
by Michael van Manen | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
Merleau-Ponty is known as a cautious and tentative Socratic philosopher. His writings are rich, expressive, evocative, and profound. Often his texts possess the textual sensibility of a constant probing wondering and questioning. The Preface to his influential study...
by Michael van Manen | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
When the phenomenological historian Herbert Spiegelberg sets out “to give a minimum operational grasp of what it means to do phenomenology” (p. 14), he starts from the commonly accepted Husserlian phrase “To the Things” (Zu den Sachen) which indicates that doing...
