Phenomenology of Practice Meaning and Method Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Phenomenology of Practice Meaning and Method

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.

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? “

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.

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.

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.

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 Nachtgestirn aus 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.