by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Touching
Touching: The researcher-as-author is challenged to construct a phenomenological text that brings us in touch with the phenomenological gaze. The phenomenologist is a researcher, a seeker of meaning, someone who learns to “really” write in order to gain the experience...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Transcendental Phenomenology
Transcendental phenomenology Basic themes of transcendental phenomenology are “intentionality,” “eidetic reduction,” and “constitution of meaning.” By transcendental phenomenology we refer primarily to the work of Edmund Husserl and his early assistants Edith Stein...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Traversing
Traversing: To write is to traverse the writerly space of the text. The phenomenologist-as-writer tries to bring things into presence through artistic evocation. But to see the being of things directly would require that one moves into that space where the...
by admin | Apr 26, 2021 | Textorium
Grief for Someone Else’s Child Underwood, Bill A Question Posed When parents come together at social gatherings, at some point they talk of their children. What is exchanged, on the surface at any rate, are stories or reminiscences that bring to life the “minute...
by admin | Apr 26, 2021 | Textorium
Touchstone: Finding a Lump in the Breast Underwood, Susan we never spoke at your deathbed of your death but from here on I want more crazy mourning,more howl, more keening (Rich, 1984) The only deaths by which we are not surprised belong to the dead. The day on which...
