Hermeneutic phenomenology is a method of theoretical reflection that seeks to understand lived experience through interpretation. It focuses on how humans understand and engage with the world through their own perspectives and preconceptions. The purpose is to reflect on the basic structures of lived human experience and bring hidden meanings and themes to light. Researchers aim to describe phenomena as directly experienced before abstracting or theorizing.
Hermeneutic phenomenology is a method of theoretical reflection that seeks to understand lived experience through interpretation. It focuses on how humans understand and engage with the world through their own perspectives and preconceptions. The purpose is to reflect on the basic structures of lived human experience and bring hidden meanings and themes to light. Researchers aim to describe phenomena as directly experienced before abstracting or theorizing.
Hermeneutic phenomenology is a method of theoretical reflection that seeks to understand lived experience through interpretation. It focuses on how humans understand and engage with the world through their own perspectives and preconceptions. The purpose is to reflect on the basic structures of lived human experience and bring hidden meanings and themes to light. Researchers aim to describe phenomena as directly experienced before abstracting or theorizing.
Hermeneutic phenomenology is a method of theoretical reflection that seeks to understand lived experience through interpretation. It focuses on how humans understand and engage with the world through their own perspectives and preconceptions. The purpose is to reflect on the basic structures of lived human experience and bring hidden meanings and themes to light. Researchers aim to describe phenomena as directly experienced before abstracting or theorizing.
HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY WHAT IS HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY?
Hermeneutic phenomenology is a method of It is focused on the subjective experience of
theoretical reflection on the basic structures of individuals and groups. It is an attempt to the lived experience of human existence. unveil the world as experienced by the subject through their lifeworld stories. It studies interpretive structures of experience, how we understand and The term originates from an ancient Greek term engage things around us in our human ἑρμηνεύς / hermeneus which was later world, including ourselves and others. translated into Latin interpretari which means (Woodruff, 2008) interpret Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer sought to uncover the life world or human experience hermeneutics and interpretation mean the same as it is lived (Laverty 2003) thing: to say or utter to, explain to, translate WHAT IS HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY? HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY
It studies experience and how we perceive reality,
It originated from biblical studies; defined as the which according to its proponents, consists of objects understanding and analysis of biblical interpretation. and events (phenomena) as perceived by human consciousness. It is a study of literary texts, scholars frequently Human experience includes processes such as adhere to a set of rules or a specific system on which imagination, thought, and feeling. It focuses to base their interpretation. on how people attribute meaning to and make sense of their social interactions. It is the art of understanding and interpretation of verbal or non-verbal expressions as well as prior Edmund Husserl view typical activities in everyday life aspects that influence communication, including as veritable mines of social and cultural information presuppositions, assumptions, the meaning and about human consciousness and human societies. philosophy of language. PURPOSE
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The purpose of hermeneutic
The basic tenet of hermeneutic phenomenological research is to bring to phenomenology is that our most We are involved in our world and light and reflect upon the lived meaning immediately experience our world as of this basic experience. fundamental and basic meaningful because our world—with its experience of the world is other people, its histories and cultures, Researchers attempt to describe already full of meaning and its events—precedes any attempt phenomena as they appear in everyday (Merleau-Ponty, 1962/ 2006; life before they have been theorized, on our part to understand it or explain it. van Manen, 2014). interpreted, explained, and otherwise abstracted while knowing that any attempt to do this is always tentative, contingent, and never complete. EXAMPLES of Hermeneutical Phenomenology
The diary of Anne Frank.
A group of people or friends experience a "Those who have courage and faith shall After watching a 2-hour movie with memorable event together, a later point in never perish in misery." friends, we may not all share the same time, a separate event occurs which "As long as this exists, this sunshine and reminds one of them of their previous this cloudless sky, and as long as I can opinion of that movie. enjoy it, how can I be sad?" shared experience. (Inside jokes)