by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Linguistic Reflection
Linguistic Reflection It is sometimes surprising how much language can teach us if we allow ourselves to be attentive to even the most common of expressions associated with the phenomenon we wish to pursue. The reason is that sayings, idiomatic phrases, proverbs, and...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Literary And Aesthetic Sources
Literature, poetry, and art are sources of phenomenological insights The human scientist likes to make use of the works of poets, authors, artists, cinematographers–because it is in this material that the human being can be found as situated person, and it is in this...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Macro Thematic Reflection
Macro-thematic Reflection In the wholistic reading approach we attend to the text as a whole. Expressing the fundamental or overall meaning of a text is an interpretive act. Different readers may discern different thematic meanings. And no one interpretation is ever...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Metaphors
Apt metaphors can make visible aspects of human experience. Nietzsche observed that all language, and therefore all truth and error, is metaphoric in origin. Virtually every word we utter originally derives from some image, thereby betraying its metaphoric genesis. So...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Methodological Reduction
The methodological reduction: approach Method: Bracket all established investigative methods or techniques and seek or invent an approach that seems to fit most appropriately the phenomenological topic under study. One needs to invent a flexible narrative rationality,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Methodology
The heuristic epoché-reduction consists of the epoché of bracketing (disturbing, shattering) the attitude of taken-for-grantedness. It aims to awaken a profound sense of wonder about the phenomenon or event in which one is interested—the heuristic moment occurs in...
