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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

When Hegel refers to “absolute knowledge,” he does not mean knowing everything absolutely or knowing absolutely everything; rather, it is knowledge of something for what this thing really is: its absolute identity. Famous is Hegel’s use of the biblical Adam for...

Heidegger, Martin

For Heidegger the method of ontology is phenomenology. So, for Heidegger phenomenology requires of its practitioners a heedful attunement to the modes of being of the ways that things are in the world. “Phenomenology” means—to let that which shows itself be seen from...

Hermeneutic Interview Reflection

Hermeneutic Interview Reflection The hermeneutic interview has a conversational structure: it is oriented to sense-making and interpreting experiential meanings. The interview has a collaborative conversational structure that lends itself especially well to the task...

Hermeneutic Reduction

The hermeneutic reduction: openness Method: Bracket all interpretation and reflectively explicate whatever assumptions seem to need attention in writing the research text. One needs to reflect on one’s own preunderstandings, frameworks, and biases regarding the...

Hermeneutical Phenomenology

Hermeneutical phenomenology Basic themes of hermeneutic phenomenology are “interpretation,” “textual meaning,” “dialogue,” “preunderstanding,” and “tradition.” Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur are the foremost representatives of the movement of hermeneutic...