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Susan Kozel's book, Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology, offers an ambitious, eclectic, and imaginative retrospective account of Kozel's own experiments with choreography, performance, and digital technologies,... more
In his writings Alfred Schutz identifies an artificiality in the concept of “life-world” produced by Edmund Husserl's method of reduction. As an alternative, he proposes to assume intersubjectivity as a given of everyday life. This... more
In the present paper, I intend to systematically revisit Thomas Luckmann’s account of the relation between phenomenology and sociology and to assess its strengths and weaknesses in terms of constructive criticism. In order to achieve this... more
Anatomically detailed dolls have been used to elicit testimony from children in sex abuse cases. However, studies have shown they often provide false accounts in young, preschool-age children. Typically this problem is seen as a cognitive... more
Can a phenomenology of culture be at the same time a philosophy of culture? In other words, can a descriptive exploration of acts and objects of culture serve at the same time as a critical reflection on those acts and objects? Or does... more
Gender and security are concepts which hold infinite categorization and clarification. Gender is a system of symbolic meaning and applications, held within contemporary scholarship and politics indicate. The relationship between gender... more
This paper discusses the relation between the later Husserl and the later Heidegger regarding their criticisms of modern science and technology. It is suggested that the overlap between both accounts is more significant than is standardly... more
Giacomo Marramao, Kairós: Towards an Ontology of “Due Time.” Trans. Philip Larrey and Silvia Cattaneo. The Davies Group Publishers, Aurora, CO, 2007, 90 pp + xiiTime represents, “from time immemorial, one of the main themes of Western... more
This paper discusses ethnomethodology’s program in relation to the phenomenological life-world analysis of Alfred Schutz. A recent publication of Garfinkel’s early writings sheds new light on how he made use of phenomenological... more
This paper examines an aspect of the grammar-interaction interface with respect to how participants orient to intra-turn phrasal unit boundaries as a locus that has interactional import for turn and sequence organization in Korean... more
This article seeks to provide a phenomenological inquiry into schizophrenia through which I propose to bring to the fore the mental violence exercised against the self in the case of a psychotic patient. My main aim is to show that a... more
This paper compares Harold Garfinkel’s phenomenologically informed “radical” ethnomethodology and Emanuel Schegloff’s “classical” Conversation Analysis, by focusing on their treatments of a ringing telephone as a summons. In their... more
The question of whether Heidegger’s phenomenological contribution to the philosophy of being originates from his pre-philosophical attitude to theology or rather, it is the methodological question of phenomenology which influenced his... more
Many years ago, the Christian existentialist Gabriel Marcel made a helpful distinction between a ‘‘problem’’ and a ‘‘mystery.’’ Schematically, a problem is a situation with respect to which the person is a detached observer. One... more