Phenomenology of practice : meaning-giving methods in phenomenological research and writing

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B829.5.A3 V36 2014
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Summary

Max van Manen offers an extensive exploration of phenomenological traditions and methods for the human sciences. It is his first comprehensive statement of phenomenological thought and research in over a decade. Phenomenology of practice refers to the meaning and practice of phenomenology in professional contexts such as psychology, education, and health care, as well as to the practice of phenomenological methods in contexts of everyday living. Van Manen presents a detailed description of key phenomenological ideas as they have evolved over the past century; he then thoughtfully works through the methodological issues of phenomenological reflection, empirical methods, and writing that a phenomenology of practice offers to the researcher. Van Manen's comprehensive work will be of great interest to all concerned with the interrelationship between being and acting in human sciences research and in everyday life.

Contents

  • Preface p. 13
  • 1 Phenomenology of Practice p. 15
  • Reality of the Real p. 16
  • Enigma of Meaning p. 17
  • Doing Phenomenology p. 18
  • Writing the Phenomenality of Human life p. 19
  • A Phenomenology of Phenomenology p. 22
  • 2 Meaning and Method p. 26
  • (Hermeneutic) Phenomenology is a Method p. 26
  • How a Phenomenological Question May Arise p. 31
  • Wonder and the Phenomenological Question p. 36
  • Lived Experience: Life as We Live It p. 39
  • Everydayness and the Natural Attitude p. 42
  • Phenomenological Meaning p. 43
  • Strongly and Weakly Incarnated Meaning in Texts p. 45
  • Directness and Indirectness of Expressivity of Meaning p. 46
  • Cognitive and Noncognitive Meaning p. 47
  • Arguing and Showing Meaning p. 48
  • On the Meaning of "Thing" and the Call To the Things Themselves" p. 50
  • Primal Impressional Consciousness p. 52
  • Reflection on Prereflective Experience or the Living Moment of the "Now" p. 57
  • Appearance and the Revealing of Phenomena p. 60
  • Intentionality, Nonintentionality, Subjectivity, and World p. 62
  • The Dual Relation between Phenomenology and Theory p. 65
  • The Primacy of Practice p. 67
  • 3 Openings p. 72
  • The Imperative of Continuous Creativity p. 72
  • Phenomenology: A Method of Methods p. 74
  • Precursors p. 75
  • René Descartes p. 75
  • Immanuel Kant p. 79
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel p. 81
  • Friedrich Nietzsche p. 85
  • 4 Beginnings p. 88
  • Original Originating Methods p. 88
  • Transcendental Phenomenology p. 88 Edmund Husserl
  • Personalistic and Value Phenomenology p. 96 Max Scheler
  • Empathic and Faith Phenomenology p. 100 Edith Stein
  • Ontological Phenomenology p. 104 Martin Heidegger
  • Personal Practice Phenomenology p. 111 Jan Patocka
  • 5 Strands and Traditions p. 113
  • Multiple Methods of Meaning p. 113
  • Ethical Phenomenology p. 113 Emmanuel Levinas
  • Existential Phenomenology p. 118 Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Gender Phenomenology p. 124 Simone de Beauvoir
  • Embodiment Phenomenology p. 127 Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Hermeneutic Phenomenology p. 132 Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Critical Phenomenology p. 134 Paul Ricoeur
  • Literary Phenomenology p. 139 Maurice Blanchot
  • Oneiric-Poetic Phenomenology p. 144 Gaston Bachelard
  • Sociological Phenomenology p. 146 Alfred Schutz
  • Political Phenomenology p. 148 Hannah Arendt
  • Material Phenomenology p. 151 Michel Henry
  • Deconstruction Phenomenology p. 155 Jacques Derrida
  • 6 New Thoughts and Unthoughts p. 159
  • Continually Unfolding Methods p. 159
  • Technoscience Postphenomenology p. 159 Don Ihde
  • Learning Phenomenology p. 161 Hubert Dreyfus
  • Sense Phenomenology p. 162 Michel Serres
  • Ecological Phenomenology p. 165 Alphonso Lingis
  • Fragmentary Phenomenology p. 169 Jean-Luc Nancy
  • Religious Phenomenology p. 172 Jean-Louis Chrétien
  • Philological Phenomenology p. 175 Giorgio Agamben
  • Radical Phenomenology p. 177 Jean-Luc Marion
  • Technogenetic Phenomenology p. 182 Bernard Stiegler
  • Objectivity Phenomenology p. 185 Günter Figal
  • Ecstatic-poetic Phenomenology p. 187 Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
  • Evential Phenomenology p. 191 Claude Romano
  • 7 Phenomenology and the Professions p. 194
  • The Dutch or Utrecht School p. 195
  • Phenomenological Pedagogy p. 198 Martinus J. Langeveld
  • Phenomenology of Medicine p. 200 Frtderik J. Buytendijk
  • Phenomenology of Psychiatry p. 203 Johan H. van den Berg
  • Phenomenological Pediatrics p. 206 Nicolas Beets
  • Phenomenology of Ministering p. 208 Anthony Beekman
  • The Duquesne School p. 209
  • Scientific Psychological Phenomenology p. 210 Amedeo Giorgi
  • Heuristic and Psycho-Therapeutic Phenomenology p. 212 Clark Moustakas
  • Phenomenology of Practice p. 212
  • Phenomenology and Pedagogy p. 212 Max van Manen
  • 8 Philosophical Methods: The Epoché and Reduction p. 215
  • Approaches to the Epoché and Reduction p. 218
  • The Epoché-Reduction: Invitations to Openness p. 222
  • The Heuristic Epoché-Reduction: Wonder p. 223
  • The Hermeneutic Epoché-Reduction: Openness p. 224
  • The Experiential Epoché-Reduction: Concreteness p. 225
  • The Methodological Epoché-Reduction: Approach p. 226
  • The Reduction-Proper: Meaning Giving Sources of Meaning p. 228
  • The Eidetic Reduction: Eidos or Whatness p. 228
  • Vie Ontological Reduction: Ways of Being p. 231
  • The Ethical Reduction: Alterity p. 231
  • The Radical Reduction: Self-Givenness p. 233
  • The Originary Reduction: Inception or Originaty Meaning p. 235
  • 9 Philological Methods: The Vocative p. 240
  • The Aesthetic Imperative p. 240
  • The Revocative Method: Lived Throughness p. 241
  • Language and Experience: Beyond Interpretive Description p. 242
  • The Evocative Method: Nearness p. 249
  • The "Anecdote" Lets One Grasp Meaning Experientially 2$0
  • Writing Anecdote p. 231
  • Anecdote Structure p. 252
  • Anecdote Editing p. 254
  • Anecdote as Phenomenological Example p. 256
  • The "Example" Lets the Singular be Sensed (Seen, Heard, Pelt) p. 257
  • The Invocative Method: Intensification p. 260
  • Poetic Language: When the Word Becomes "Image" p. 261
  • Textual Tone and Aspect Seeing p. 263
  • The Convocative Method: Pathic p. 267
  • The Gnostic and the Pathic p. 268
  • Excursion: The Pathic Touch p. 272
  • The Provocative Method: Epiphany p. 281
  • Excursion: Vocative Expressibility-Falling Asleep p. 282
  • 10 Conditions for the Possibility of Doing Phenomenological Analysis p. 297
  • Is the Analysis Guided by a Proper Phenomenological Question? p. 297
  • Is the Analysis Performed on Prereflective Experiential Material? p. 299
  • Existential Methods: Guided Existential Inquiry p. 302
  • Relationality-Lived Self-Other p. 303
  • Corporeality-Lived Body p. 304
  • Spatiality-Lived Space p. 305
  • Temporality-Lived Time p. 305
  • Materiality-Lived Things p. 306
  • Addendum: Experiencing Technology: Lived Cyborg Relations p. 308
  • 11 Human Science Methods: Empirical and Reflective Activities p. 311
  • Empirical Methods of Gathering Lived Experiences p. 312
  • The Phenomenological Interview p. 314
  • The Hermeneutic Interview p. 317
  • Observing Lived Experiences p. 318
  • Borrowing from Fiction p. 318
  • Reflective Methods for Seeing Meanings in Tests p. 319
  • Approaches to Theme Analysis p. 319
  • Conceptual Analysis p. 323
  • Insight Cultivators p. 324
  • Excursion: Insight Cultivators: The Body in Illness or Health p. 325
  • 12 Issues of Logic p. 342
  • Truth as Veritas and Aletheia p. 342
  • The Reduction, Preduction, and Abduction p. 344
  • Active Passivity p. 345
  • The Value of Validity p. 347
  • Validation Criteria p. 350
  • Reliability p. 351
  • Evidence p. 351
  • Generalization p. 352
  • Sampling p. 352
  • Bias p. 353
  • Bacons Idols p. 354
  • Criteria for Evaluative Appraisal of Phenomenological Studies p. 355
  • 13 Phenomenological Writing p. 357
  • What Does it Mean to Write Phenomenologically? p. 357
  • Reading the Writing p. 359
  • Inducing Wonder p. 360
  • Textualizing Orality and Oralizing Written Text p. 362
  • Research Writing p. 363
  • Inner Speech and Inner Writing p. 365
  • Phenomenology Was Already Writing p. 365
  • Presence and Absence p. 367
  • Writing Creates a Space that Belongs to the Unrepresentable p. 369
  • Writing Desire p. 373
  • 14 Draft Writing p. 375
  • How May We Practice to Write Phenomenologically? p. 375
  • Heuristic Draft Writing p. 376
  • Experiential Draft Writing p. 377
  • Thematic Draft Writing p. 377
  • Insight Cultivating Draft Writing p. 377
  • Vocative Draft Writing p. 377
  • Inceptual Draft Writing p. 378
  • Excursion: Draft Writing: What Is It Like for Students to Experience Their Name? p. 378
  • The Research Is the Writing p. 389
  • References p. 392
  • Name Index p. 403
  • Subject Index p. 407
  • About the Author p. 412

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