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Langeveld, Jan Martinus

Langeveld spoke of the “home, street, and kitchen approach” in practicing phenomenology to emphasize this quotidian interest in ordinary life topics, even as these topics often were born in the lifeworld contexts of clinical professional practices. The interest in the...

Language

Language itself is a source of meaning Words often mean more than they mean. Sometimes the surplus or transcendent meaning is symbolic as in myth, or rhetorical as in political text, or motivational as in graduation speeches, or inspirational as in prayers. And...

Levinas, Emmanuel

Levinas has insistently proposed that caring responsibility can only be understood in its most basic modality if we can somehow transcend the intentional relation toward the world that accompanies all modes of being and thinking. Levinas has aimed to show that it is...

Linguistic Differentiations

Linguistic differentiations provide a source of semantic variations that constitute a web of related phenomena and meanings. In order to find the source of linguistic differentiations we ask: What words or notions are closely related to the phenomenon that we study?...