tres bon Jan:
>Hi Shannon,
>
>Yeh, what is phenomenology ? Phenomenology is a way of life. Phenomenology
>is an attitude. Phenomenology is a moment of
>amazement. Phenomenology is the art of holistic thinking and
>feeling with your 'bare hands'. Phenomenology is the impartial
>descriptive style of a pre-theoretically, detached consciousness.
>Phenomenology is a ground-experience of realizing your being
>part of, absorbed and immersed in the totality of your life-world
>[Lebenswelt]. Phenomenology is an attunement to openness and
>a careful movement, a free encounter, but an inevitable return to
>the 'thing itself' [Zurueck zu den Sachen selbst]. Phenomenology
>is a looking for the (hidden) essences, and a listening to the inner
>voices, of the phenomena [gr. Phainesthai = showing off] in the
>way they *must* show themselves as themselves.
>
>Phenomenology is not an objective method to analyse empirical
>data or to explain causal mechanisms, neither is it a subjective
>evocation of a person's inner experiences and intuitions. What
>phenomenology tries to accomplish is a philosophical synthesis
>between Empirical Realism and Transcendantal Idealism. Where
>Idealism is reducing the exteriour to my interiour and Realism is
>reducing my interiour to the exteriour, Phenomenology tries to
>emphasize the fundamental (pre-personal and pre-theoretical) and
>original co-dependance [gleichurspruenglichkeit; cf SuZ] of the
>interiour (subject) and the exteriour (object), the co-origination
>of man and world.
>
>But okay, you asked for an example of phenomenology. Well of
>course there are millions of examples available, as many as the
>manyfold phenomena of/in our life-world. But let's take the case
>of DU (depleted uranium) refered to in the articles Henry and i
>recently send to the list. A *Phenomenology of DU* would not
>focus on the amounts of radioactivity measured, nor would it
>objectively calculate the exact rates of birth defects and cancer,
>and neither would it categorize all the physical abnormalities that
>occured because of it. No, a phenomenology of DU, would try
>-first of all- to describe the concrete life-world of the victims and
>the perpetrators: f.e. the feelings of power and hopelessness in the
>actions of soldiers when they pull the trigger; the coping and the
>emotions of the mother that has given birth to a deformed baby;
>the way politicians are lying in faked Parliaments; the way media
>remain silent to hide the inescapable consequences; the way we're
>played ignorant to the destruction of our earth. Here's your task
>Shannon, write us ......
>
>Yeh, what is phenomenology ? We can not do without it, as Rene
>observed well: "There can be no world then."
>
>yours,
>Jan
>
>btw. a small and excellent introduction to phenomenology is
>Merleau-Ponty's preface to his "Phenomenology of Perception".
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