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Cultural Sources

Human phenomena always acquire their significance in cultural contexts; thus culture is a source of meaning for phenomenological inquiry. As a result of the increased globalization of our cultural awareness, we now realize that people’s experiences of everyday life...

Davies, Mark. Loneliness

Loneliness Davies, Mark Loneliness as Searching Its only four in the afternoon, but the overcast sky makes it seem later. I step off a curb, careful to miss the puddle along the gutter. The road is blacker than usual with the pebbles of the asphalt holding the rain in...

De Beauvoir, Simone

Simone de Beauvoir was born on Boulevard Raspail, Paris, in 1908. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a strict Catholic from a bourgeois family. It is said that de Beauvoir was inspired to become an intellectual because she was caught between her father’s pagan...

Derrida, Jacques

Derrida, Jacques (1930-). Algerian born French philosopher of deconstruction, Derrida founded the International College of Philosophy in Paris and the International Group for Research into the Teaching of Philosophy in 1975. He is currently attached to the Etudes des...