Knowledge by Hearing

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 63-85
Author(s):  
Michele Averchi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Cognitive Agents ◽  
Logical Investigations

In this paper, I argue that Husserl offers an important, although almost completely neglected so far, contribution to the reductionist/antireductionist debate about testimony. Through a phenomenological analysis, Husserl shows that testimony works through the constitution of an intentional intersubjective bond between the speaker and the hearer. In this paper I focus on the Logical Investigations, a 1914 manuscript now published as text 2 in Husserliana 20.2, and a 1931 manuscript now published as Appendix 12 in Husserliana 15. I argue that, in those texts, Husserl highlights three essential phenomenological features of testimony: a) testimony is personal, meaning that it only takes place among persons, b) testimony is social, meaning that it requires the joint effort of multiple cognitive agents, c) testimony is community-building, meaning that it generates a long-lasting social bond among the parts involved.

scholarly journals Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self: A Critical-Phenomenological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Jessica Stanier ◽  
Nicole Miglio
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Painful Experience ◽  
Intersubjective Self ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate multi-levelled phenomenon, deeply ingrained in the constitution of one’s sense of bodily self and emerging from a web of intercorporeal, social, cultural, and political relations. In the first section, we review and critique some conceptual accounts of pain. Then, we explore how pain is involved in complex ways with modalities of pleasure and displeasure, enacted personal meaning, and contexts of empathy or shame. We aim to show why a phenomenology of pain must acknowledge the richness and diversity of peculiar painful experiences. The second section then weaves these critical insights into Husserlian phenomenology of embodiment, sensation, and localisation. We introduce the distinction between Body-Object and Lived-Body to show how pain presents intersubjectively (e.g. from a patient to a clinician). Furthermore, we stress that, while pain seems to take a marginal position in Husserl’s whole corpus, its role is central in the transcendental constitution of the Lived-Body, interacting with the personal, interpersonal, and intersubjective levels of experiential constitution. Taking a critical-phenomenological perspective, we then concretely explore how some people may experience structural conditions which may make their experiences more or less painful.

scholarly journals Transition to Parenthood after Unexplained Infertility: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 106648072110618
Author(s):  
Aušra Sirevičiūtė ◽  
Gabija Jarašiūnaitė-Fedosejeva
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Unexplained Infertility ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Identity Shift ◽  
Spontaneous Conception ◽  
High Chance

Prevalence rates of infertility show that one in every six couples worldwide have experienced fertility problems; however, there is still a relatively high chance of spontaneous conception for couples with unexplained infertility. Nevertheless, most existing research has focused on the infertility experience leading up to potential parenthood, rather than the actual parenting experience itself. Hence, this paper presents an in-depth exploration of the lived experiences and personal meaning of becoming parents of individuals affected by unexplained infertility. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and transcripts were subjected to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Four themes emerged: perception of fragility of life, father's embodied emotional connection with child, becoming a parent—identity shift, and imprint of infertility on relationships with a partner. The findings emphasize clinicians’ and researchers’ awareness of the need to process couple's grief and highlight the importance of addressing romantic relationship issues, experienced during the infertility period to facilitate couples transitioning to parenthood.

scholarly journals To Work or Not to Work: Construction of Meaning of Work and Making Work Choices

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
M V Anuradha ◽  
E S Srinivas ◽  
Manish Singhal ◽  
S Ramnarayan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
Work Narratives ◽  
Work Choices

Meaning of work as explored in this study refers to the function that organizational paid employment serves for people. Is work a means of fulfilling social and economic expectations? Is it a means through which an individual can learn and grow personally? Is it a means of earning a living? Or is it an opportunity for people to express and apply their talents and expertise? In the real world, work could mean all of these together. However, when participants were asked about the meaning of work, their responses indicated the predominance of one meaning at any given time. The intent of this research was to explore how the predominant meaning of work got constructed before people started working and how that affected their work choices. The research was based on the assumption that meaning of work is a dynamic concept, i.e. the same individual can hold different meanings of work at two different points in time. This assumption in effect also suggests that meaning is not determined by fixed personality characteristics of an individual, but gets constructed through the interaction of the social structures and the personal preferences of people. In order to understand how the meaning of work evolves even before one starts working, a process theory of the construction of meaning of work was developed inductively using the work narratives of 44 public sector bank employees in India. It was found that work means different things to different people, but for ease of comprehension and for the purpose of analysis, the meaning of work has been categorized under two broad headings — social meaning of work and personal meaning of work. When the main function of work is to fulfill social and economic expectations, the person can be said to hold a social meaning of work. If work is predominantly a means to satisfy personal aspirations and interests, then it holds a personal meaning. The narratives suggest that when individuals have multiple career or job alternatives to choose from and also possess a clear knowledge of their interests, then their work choices are driven by personal inclinations and work takes on a personal meaning. On the other hand, when the number of job alternatives is limited and an individual does not have insight into one's own interests then social expectations and metaphors related to work influence the meaning of work and work choices. The theoretical and managerial implications of the findings and limitations are also discussed.

scholarly journals Preface to the Publication of A.F. Losev’s Unknown Text “The Subject of Psychology”

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
V.P. Troitskiy
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Logical Investigations ◽  
The Subject

The paper presents a passage from the second, recently revealed part of A.F. Losev’s book “Philosophy of Name” devoted to the psychology of thinking. According to Losev’s initial plan, the first part of the book was to be the “General and phenomenological analysis of thought and word, or name” which eventually became the published book “Philosophy of Name”. In the second, unpublished part the author planned to interpret “On the dialectic nature of name”. A fragment of hand-written text that was found in A.F. Losev’s archive most probably belongs to this second part. Here, the author creates the phenomenological and dialectic model of the subject of perception and logically constructs its main characteristics and manifestations: stimulation, sensation, representation, self-reflection (intelligentsia). While describing and analyzing the “stage” of sensation, Losev focuses on the “subject of psychology”, all presented in this very paper. The author argues for the “phenomenological formula of mind”. The philosophical method used by A.F. Losev reminds one of E. Husserl’s descriptive (eidetic) phenomenology of the “Logical Investigations” period.

Husserl on Intentionality and Attention

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Luca De Giovanni
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Genetic Phenomenology ◽  
Transcendental Subjectivity ◽  
Passive Synthesis ◽  
Logical Investigations ◽  
Intentional Experience

This paper discusses the role of attention in the phenomenological analysis of intentional experience in light of the problem of the relation between consciousness, intentionality, and transcendental subjectivity. Are these concepts equivalent? Or should we rather say that there is more to intentionality (and subjectivity) than consciousness? Does subjectivity embrace an unconscious domain? And, if so, how does this unconscious, yet intentional, life of subjectivity operate and how is it related to consciousness? In order to answer these questions, the paper tracks the development of Husserl’s conception of attention from the Logical Investigations to genetic phenomenology, by focusing on his analyses of temporality in the Bernau Manuscripts, on the relation between activity and passivity in the Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis, and on the issue of the self-constitution of subjectivity

scholarly journals Frases não-declarativas e comunicação nas Investigações Lógicas de Husserl

Phainomenon ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16-17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Pedro M. S. Alves
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Declarative Sentence ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Logical Investigations ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
Logical Semantic ◽  
John Austin

Abstract In this paper I discuss the consistency and accuracy of Husserl’s sketch of a theory about non-declarative sentences in the last chapter of Logical Investigations. Whereas the consistency is acknowledged, the accuracy is denied, because Husserl’s treatment of non-declarative phrases such as questions or orders implies that those phrases contain, in some way, a declarative sentence and an objectifying act. To construct a question like “is A B?” as being equivalent to a pseudo-declarative sentence such as “I ask whether A is B” is, however, a false phenomenological analysis, because to ask o r to order or to beg is not to assert. I turn, then, to John Austin ‘s theory of performative (as opposed to constatative) utterances and illocutionary acts in order to find a more accurate approach to the logical-semantic content of non-declarative sentences. Eventually, I show how this Husserlian theory of non-declarative sentences has a negative impact on the phenomenological theory of social ·acts and communication.

Introduction to the Forum on Cluttering: Rays of Hope Shine Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1567
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Attention Performance ◽  
Self Help Groups

Purpose In the 10 years since the International Cluttering Association (ICA) was created, this organization has been growing in the scope of its initiatives, and in the variety of resources it makes available for people with cluttering (PWC). However, the awareness of this disorder and of the methods for its intervention remain limited in countries around the world. A celebration of the multinational and multicultural engagements of the ICA's Committee of the International Representatives is a common thread running through all the articles in this forum. The first article is a joint effort among international representatives from five continents and 15 countries, exploring various themes related to cluttering, such as awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. The second article, by Elizabeth Gosselin and David Ward, investigates attention performance in PWC. In the third article, Yvonne van Zaalen and Isabella Reichel explain how audiovisual feedback training can improve the monitoring skills of PWC, with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication. In the final article, Hilda Sønsterud examines whether the working alliance between the client and clinician may predict a successful cluttering therapy outcome. Conclusions Authors of this forum exchanged their expertise, creativity, and passion with the goal of solving the mystery of the disconcerting cluttering disorder with the hope that all PWC around the globe will have access to the most effective evidence-based treatments leading to blissful and successful communication.

Voices of a Community: Community Building for People With AIDS

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 1004-1005
Author(s):  
Sybil G. Hosek ◽  
Erika D. Felix ◽  
Leonard A. Jason
Keyword(s):  
Community Building
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