Phenomenology of Practice - PowerPoint Presentation

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Phenomenology of PracticeMeaning and MethodSlide2

Hermeneutic Phenomenology:

“a

method

of

abstemious

reflection on the

basic structures

of the

lived experience

of human existence

.”

method

refers

to

the way or attitude of approaching a phenomenon.

abstemious

means that

reflecting on

experience aims to abstain from theoretical,

polemical

, suppositional

, and

emotional

intoxications.

hermeneutic

means that reflecting on

experience must

aim for discursive language and sensitive interpretive devices that

make phenomenological

analysis, explication, and description possible and intelligible.

lived

experience

means that phenomenology reflects on the

prereflective

or pre-predicative

life of human existence as living through it.Slide3

Phenomenology…

…is primarily a philosophic

method for questioning,

not a method for answering or discovering or drawing determinate conclusions.

…is

best begun in the living of our ordinary life

.

…is

the project that tries

to describe

the

prereflective

meaning of the living

now.

…is

becoming

infected with

a certain pathos that creates an openness to the world and a

wondering attentiveness

that is the trigger for phenomenological inquiry

.

…asks: "What

is the nature

, meaning

, significance, uniqueness, or singularity of this or that experience

as we

live through it or as it is given in our experience or consciousness

?“Slide4

Phenomenology…

…is the practice of the bracketing, brushing away, or reducing what prevents us from making primitive or

originary

contact with the primal concreteness of lived reality.

…is preoccupied with the

singularily

of momentary human existence, with the identity of this difference and the difference of this identity.

…inaugurates

a

reflective practice

for generating insights and

pathic

understandings that radically

challenge established

assumptions and for testing the reach and truth of its findings

.

offers us the

possibility of

plausible insights that bring us in more direct contact with the world.Slide5

Phenomenology of practice…

… refers to the kinds of inquiries that

address and serve the practices of professional practitioners as well as

the quotidian

practices of everyday life

.

…serves

to foster and strengthen an

embodied

ontology, epistemology, and axiology

of thoughtful

and tactful action

.

has as its

ultimate aim

…to

nuture

a

measure

of thoughtfulness and tact in the practice of

our professions

and

everyday life.Slide6

Phenomenological Writing…

…needs to be sensitive to the manner in which something shows itself and then the writing itself becomes a showing

…is

a reflective component of phenomenological method.

[…] To

write is to reflect; to write is to research. And in writing

we may

deepen and change ourselves in ways we cannot predict

.

…[its]

pathic

phenomenality

of phenomena and the vocative

expressivity of …involve

not only our head and hand, but our whole sensual

and sentient

embodied being.

…is

a

reflective process

of attempting to recover and express the ways we experience our life

as we

live it -and ultimately to be able to act practically in our lives with

greater thoughtfulness

and tact.Slide7

Nach

so

langer

Erfahrung

sei

‘

Haus

,’

‘Baum’

oder

‘Brücke’ anders gewagt;immer dem Schicksal eingesagt,sag es sich endlich aus!Daß wir das tägliche Wesen entwirrn,das jeder anders erfuhr,machen wir uns ein Nachtgestirnaus der gewußten Figur.

After such long experience let “house,”

“tree”, or “bridge” be dared differently

Always whispered to destiny,

finally and at last say it out.

To untangle daily creation,

which all differently endure,

we make ourselves a constellation

out of the known figure.