by admin | Jul 3, 2024
In developing an existential phenomenology Merleau-Ponty suggests that we must begin by reawakening the basic experience of the world and by practicing a “direct description” of this world: “All the efforts [of phenomenology] are concentrated upon re-achieving a...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The aim of the reduction and epoché is to reachieve direct contact with the world by suspending prejudgements, bracketing assumptions, deconstructing claims, and restoring openness. It is impossible to practice the phenomenological method without understanding the...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
Levinas (1979) describes the event of being addressed and the phenomenon of the involuntary experience of ethical responsibility as fundamental, not only to the experience of human relationship but also to the experience of the self. This kind of experience alludes to...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The ethical reduction consists of going beyond the eidetic reduction of Husserl and beyond the ontological reduction of Heidegger. The early Husserl is a cognitive phenomenologist in that he does not accept that there could be anything outside of consciousness. For...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The evocative gives key-words their full value (through metaphor and poetic devices such as repetition and alliteration)—so that layers of meaning get strongly embedded in the text. When concrete things are named in a text in which words are evocative, then a peculiar...
