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Corporeality

The existential theme of corporeality may guide our reflection to ask how the body is experienced with respect to the phenomenon that is being studied. As object? As subject? Sartre has shown that, in ordinary life the body tends to be experienced as...

Deconstruction Phenomenology

In an interview, contained in A Taste for the Secret, Derrida (2001) offers some insights into his life as author, such as his reasons for writing, his initial resistance to being photographed, and so on. The curious reader might ask, but are personal secrets...

Depth

The space opened up by a text is not a “real” physical dimensional space. Is the idea of textual space not just a metaphor and therefore a gloss for how we actually experience the process of reading and writing? This seems to be true. We are using a...

Doing Phenomenology

Phenomenology is the study of the meaning of lived-through experiences— phenomena, as they appear, reveal, and show themselves, and as they give themselves in our consciousness, before they have even been named, conceptualized, abstracted, and/or theorized. “Doing...

Eidos / Essence

Inner meaning is characteristic of all phenomenological texts. Indeed, when we say that human science method involves eidetic reflection, it is because eidos means essence or inner meaning. Thoughtful reflection aims to bring out the inner meaning of something....