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Phenomenology/Hermeneutics

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Phenomenology is a philosophical approach that studies the structures of experience and consciousness, focusing on how individuals perceive and interpret their lived experiences. Hermeneutics, often associated with interpretation, is the theory and methodology of understanding texts, particularly in relation to meaning and context, emphasizing the role of historical and cultural factors in interpretation.
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Phenomenology is a philosophical approach that studies the structures of experience and consciousness, focusing on how individuals perceive and interpret their lived experiences. Hermeneutics, often associated with interpretation, is the theory and methodology of understanding texts, particularly in relation to meaning and context, emphasizing the role of historical and cultural factors in interpretation.

Key research themes

1. What are the methodological distinctions and challenges in applying hermeneutic phenomenology as opposed to descriptive phenomenology in qualitative research?

This theme investigates how hermeneutic phenomenology differs from descriptive (Husserlian) phenomenology in qualitative research practice. It addresses the historical and philosophical foundations of both approaches, their methodological implications, and the tensions faced by researchers in operationalizing these methods in fields such as education, psychology, and nursing. Understanding these distinctions matters because confusion and inconsistent application of these methods affect the rigor and interpretative depth of qualitative studies utilizing phenomenological approaches.

Key finding: The paper delineates that Husserlian phenomenology focuses on describing 'pure' lived experience through epoché and bracketing to reveal essences, whereas hermeneutic phenomenology, advancing from Heidegger and Gadamer,... Read more
Key finding: This work highlights the problematic conflation of hermeneutics and phenomenology as a single method label despite their divergent ontological and epistemological aims: hermeneutics focuses on historical contextual... Read more
Key finding: Through critical examination of Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological method, Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology, and Smith's interpretative phenomenological analysis, the paper finds that these influential approaches... Read more
Key finding: The paper provides an empirical illustration of conducting a hermeneutic phenomenological study grounded in Gadamer and Heidegger’s philosophical hermeneutics. It demonstrates how to systematically implement concepts like... Read more
Key finding: Offering a comprehensive review, this paper delineates the fundamental characteristics and steps of the phenomenological method, especially Husserl’s contributions such as epoché and phenomenological reduction. It emphasizes... Read more

2. How is phenomenology philosophically and methodologically engaged to study complex human experiences such as health, spirituality, education, and identity?

This theme captures phenomenology and hermeneutic phenomenology’s application in diverse substantive domains where lived experience is central, such as medical practice, spirituality and religion, transformative learning, and identity politics. It focuses on how phenomenological methods facilitate nuanced understanding of meaning, embodiment, and subjective experience beyond positivistic or reductionist approaches. This line of inquiry matters for developing sensitive, person-centered approaches in applied research and praxis.

Key finding: The work articulates a philosophical foundation for medical practice as not merely biological science but fundamentally an interpretive meeting between doctor and patient. It critiques the reductionist biomedical model and... Read more
Key finding: This chapter argues for the significant epistemological and methodological compatibility of hermeneutic phenomenology with transformative learning research, particularly in educational contexts. It explicates how hermeneutic... Read more
Key finding: This paper emphasizes the invaluable contribution of phenomenology to clarifying and conceptualizing spirituality, especially relevant given the rise of 'spiritual but not religious' identities. It contends that... Read more
Key finding: Employing interpretive-hermeneutic phenomenology and Foucault’s analytics of power, this empirical study reveals how marginalized Badjao urban dwellers negotiate identity assertion and political representation within a... Read more
Key finding: Offering a thorough analysis, this chapter traces the development of phenomenology from Husserl through subsequent expansions and elucidates methods for rigorously describing consciousness and lived experience in psychology.... Read more

3. How has phenomenology historically evolved, particularly through Heidegger’s hermeneutical transformation, and what implications does this have for contemporary philosophical thinking?

This theme explores the historical progression of phenomenology from Husserl’s descriptive roots toward Heidegger’s hermeneutic and existential reorientation. It investigates early 20th-century philosophical developments, debates surrounding the nature of life, and phenomenology’s transformation into a method and ontology, particularly focusing on Heidegger’s role in redefining phenomenology’s scope and independence. Understanding this evolution is pivotal for situating current phenomenological methodology and its application in philosophy and social science.

Key finding: Heidegger’s 1919 lecture redefines phenomenology as an originary, pre-theoretical science that transcends earlier Lebensphilosophie and revitalizes phenomenological research through a hermeneutical transformation. The study... Read more
Key finding: The essay elucidates Ricoeur’s philosophical project of reconciling the fidelity to textual rigor with the Husserlian imperative to return to phenomena. Ricoeur articulates a hermeneutic phenomenology that acknowledges both... Read more
Key finding: This article analyzes Marion’s phenomenological contribution that seeks to transcend the limits of classical metaphysics and Husserlian phenomenology by proposing a ‘phenomenology of givenness.’ Marion’s approach thematizes... Read more

All papers in Phenomenology/Hermeneutics

El siguiente trabajo continúa presentando la investigación iniciada en la investigación de maestría “La causa del sujeto desde la enseñanza de Jacques Lacan. Su función operativa en la dirección de la cura”, y anticipa los desarrollos de... more
El psicoanálisis orientado hacia lo Real plantea una ruptura en su lectura canónica sobre el sentido, virando hacia el rastreo de los puntos de goce del sujeto y cambios en su “economía”. La imagen y la escritura han sido un puntal y una... more
A partir de la pandemia del covid-19 se ha expuesto un disenso en la comunidad de analistas respecto a la clínica a distancia, poniendo de relieve ciertas condiciones formales y fundamentos teóricos que sostienen a un psicoanálisis. Las... more
The essay aims to consider side by side, within the hermeneutic paradigm, the trajectories of the philosophy of translation and the post-metaphysical and not-substantialist direction of the hermeneutic theoretical approach, taken as a... more
In this article, it is stated that both in traditional clinical practice and as a methodological strategy in social research, the ultimate ambition of Lacanian psychoanalysis is to listen to the subject, suspending any ontological... more
I call Heidegger’s Denken des durchgekreuzten Seyns (the thinking of crossed-out Being) apophatic ontology, which Heidegger himself develops as the topology of crossed-out Being (Topologie des durchgekreuzten Seyns). In this article, I... more
a discussion of his most recent works: Hors phénomène (2021), La chair de Dieu (2023) and Spiritualisme et phénoménologie (2024)
Se intentará situar la especificidad del psicoanálisis en relación a los grandes paradigmas de producción de conocimiento científico, el Positivismo Lógico y el Construccionismo, basados en postulados epistemológicos, lógicos y... more
Durante el Seminario 17, El reverso del psicoanálisis, Lacan (1969/70), reformula su conceptualización del discurso estableciendo una serie de matemas que conforman una propuesta estructural sincrónica de relaciones entre cuatro términos... more
A century ago, Heidegger-then Husserl's scientific assistant-delivered at the University of Freiburg a lecture entitled The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview on the War Emergency Semester (Kriegsnotsemester). From our... more
In his poem “Infinitive of time”, the West Indian poet Édouard Glissant calls for the “disengagement of filiation,” an imaginary filiation that takes hold of reason and history to freeze them in an “absolute territory,” that of... more
Professor da UNIOESTE RESUMO: O tema do artigo é a interpretação heideggeriana da Ética a Nicômaco. O mesmo tem como questão as linhas mestras da leitura que o filósofo faz da referida obra de Aristóteles. Ressaltaremos o fato de... more
The integration of four ideas, namely, what I term inter-ordered phenomena; where a re-purposed idea of metaphysics is seen as an example of inter-ordered phenomena; the embracement of disciplines within systems ; and how intra-system... more
Existe-t-il dans l'oeuvre de Paul Ricoeur, comme on l'a dit, une forme de dissymétrie entre le champ de la métaphore et celui du récit? Dès La métaphore vive, la référence à Northrop Frye et à Nelson Goodman va permettre de ressaisir... more
Resumen: Este artículo analiza las lecturas que realizó Martin Heidegger de la Ética a Nicómaco de Aristóteles a partir de las anotaciones y subrayados que se conservan en un ejemplar que perteneció al filósofo alemán y que actualmente se... more
RESüMEN: En el presente trabajo se analiza la temprana confrontación heideggeriana con la obra de Aristóteles, prestando una atención especial a los cursos universitarios que preceden a la publicación, en 1927, de Ser y tietlipo. Durante... more
A textbook approach to the re-constitution of philosophy as a discipline (invoking a trimodal economic method that proffers a negative, positive, and a trans-economic/existential critique of how we can do philosophical explorations in a... more
Is there, in the work of Paul Ricœur, as has been said, a form of dissymmetry between the field of metaphor and that of narrative ? From The Rule of Metaphor, the reference to Northrop Frye and to Nelson Goodman will make it possible to... more
RESüMEN: En el presente trabajo se analiza la temprana confrontación heideggeriana con la obra de Aristóteles, prestando una atención especial a los cursos universitarios que preceden a la publicación, en 1927, de Ser y tietlipo. Durante... more
Un breve recorrido (en griego moderno) por los principales textos griegos antiguos humorísticos y las películas que giran en torno al humor en la Grecia Antigua.
This article presents and discusses a theoretical proposition to study social media and their relational dynamics based on the role of language and discourse in communicative interactions that occur in social media. We propose a... more
Spanish translation of Jussi Backman, "Divine and Mortal Motivation: On the Movement of Life in Aristotle and Heidegger", Continental Philosophy Review 38 (2005): 241-261, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9007-4. Translated by... more
To date, the collection of texts, known as Biologie-Vorlesung, is still an editorial work in progress. The intention of the editors is to provide the reader with a complete edition of the notes of the latest lecture on theoretical biology... more
In the summer of 2018, James Phelan co-organized the Summer Seminar on Narratology on behalf of Project Narrative at Ohio State University, in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the journal Frontiers of Narrative... more
El presente articulo tiene por objeto analizar el tratamiento heideggeriano en torno a la tematica de la subjetividad. Nuestra tesis sera que las notas centrales de subjetividad se encuentran en clara consonancia con su creencia acerca de... more
Shakespeare in the bush' and encountering the other in the herm e neutical dialectic of belonging and distanciation 'Shakespeare in the B ush' is an account o f an anthropologist' s herme neutical experience among the Tiv people o f... more
This essay revolves around the translation act of an extract from the a scientific article describing the fundamentals and more advanced facts and figures of the LHC, located in Cern.
The paper examines some problematic implications of the question whether there is place for an ethics in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. This question has been repeatedly asked since his fundamental works were published and several... more
The paper examines some problematic implications of the question whether there is place for an ethics in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. This question has been repeatedly asked since his fundamental works were published and several... more
To date, the collection of texts, known as Biologie-Vorlesung, is still an editorial work in progress. The intention of the editors is to provide the reader with a complete edition of the notes of the latest lecture on theoretical biology... more
For three decades Franco Volpi's thesis concerning the Aristotelianism of Heidegger has been grounds for investigation. Nevertheless, it has remained pending until now the task of delving deeply into the motives for which Heidegger would... more
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Σκοπός του άρθρου αυτού είναι η θεωρητική ανάλυση και έρευνα του Εθισμού στο Διαδίκτυο και στον Ηλεκτρονικό Τζόγο, εστιάζοντας στις δραματικές διαστάσεις που έχουν πάρει τα τελευταία χρόνια οι παθολογικές αυτές καταστάσεις τόσο στην... more
Es siempre un motivo de beneplácito poder reseñar una revista que ha podido sostenerse a lo largo de ya quince años en el medio filosófico mexicano —diré, aún mejor, iberoamericano— y que, sumada a revistas como Crítica y Diánoia de la... more
Όπσο ζσζηά επηζεκαίλεη ν Ακεξηθαλόο θαζεγεηήο Martin M. Winkler ζην βηβιίν ηνπ Ovid on Screen(Ο Οβίδιος ζηηνοθόνη), ε ειιελνιαηηληθή παξάδνζε άζθεζε κεγάιε επίδξαζε ζηελ ηζηνξία ηνπ θηλεκαηνγξάθνπ, όρη κόλν ζηηο ηαηλίεο πνπ πξνζπαζνύλ... more
El presente trabajo intenta examinar algunas implicancias problemáticas suscitadas a la hora de preguntarse si en la filosofía de Martin Heidegger hay lugar para una ética. Esta pregunta ha sido formulada reiteradamente a partir de la... more
La centralità del problema e del termine «trascendenza» negli scritti heideggeriani pare essere stata finora non troppo riconosciuta. Certo è che a ciò può aver contribuito già il solo fatto della mancanza di una diffusa e chiara... more
El platonismo heideggeriano Pierpaolo Ciccarelli: Profesor Volpi, ¿en qué sentido considera que la interpretación heideggeriana de Platón es unilateral? ¿En qué sentido Heidegger atribuye a Platón la posición de fundador de la metafísica?... more
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ΠΔΡΙΔΥΟΜΔΝΑ Πξόινγνο Δηζαγσγή: Λίγα ιόγηα γηα ην βίν ηνπ Αγίνπ Νεθηαξίνπ Κεθάιαην Α: Ο Άγηνο Νεθηάξηνο σο πλεπκαηηθόο πνηκέλαο 1.1. Σα πλεπκαηηθά θαη πνηκαληηθά ραξίζκαηα ηνπ Αγίνπ Νεθηαξίνπ Πεληαπόιεσο κέζα από ηηο Δπηζηνιέο ηνπ πξνο ηνλ... more
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