Hermeneutic phenomenology

Hermeneutic phenomenology is a qualitative research methodology that

arose out of and remains closely tied to phenomenological philosophy, a
strand of continental philosophy. Although phenomenologys roots can be
traced back centuries, it became a distinct philosophical project in the mid-
1890s with the work of Edmund Husserl. Husserl argued that we are always
already in the world and that our only certainty is our experience of our
world, thus to understand the structure of consciousness can serve as the
foundation for all knowledge (Husserl, 1970). Hermeneutic phenomenology

A sharp departure can be observed in the ideas floated by another school of

phenomenology termed as hermeneutic phenomenology. It comes off the
writings of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), a disciple of Husserl. This
departure is primarily because of the rejection of the idea of suspending
personal opinions and the turn for the interpretive narration to the
description. Based on the premises that reduction is impossible and
acceptance of endless interpretations this school of phenomenology puts an
effort to get beneath the subjective experience and find the genuine
objective nature of the things as realized by an individual. Hermeneutic
phenomenology is focused on subjective experience of individuals and groups.
It is an attempt to unveil the world as experienced by the subject through
their life world stories. Learning phenomenology, then, becomes an issue not
of how to do it but of developing a particular orientation to the world. The
Chinese philosopher Confucius famously wrote: I hear and I forget. I see
and I remember. I do and I understand. This is an apt adage for learning
hermeneutic phenomenology. As much as we might read about and study
texts, we cannot truly begin to understand hermeneutic phenomenology until
we practically engage in its activities. This involves formulating
phenomenological questions, identifying and collecting experiential material,
and reflecting on concrete experiences. Through grappling with the
challenges of doing phenomenology, we begin to develop a sense of what
movements bring us closer to the phenomenon as it is lived through and
which lead us astray into theory or explanation. For this reason, the most
effective phenomenological workshop and courses are laden with activities
that challenge its participants to move beyond thinking about the
methodology and towards embodying it.
DIFFERENCES OF HERMENEUTICAL AND PHENOMENOLOGY
Hermeneutics" derives from the messenger god Hermes, who had to be able to
understand and interpret what the gods had to say to humans.

Hermeneutics is the art of understanding and the theory of interpretation.This

definition is really two definitions combined and much of the later history of
hermeneutics can be diagnosed as the working out of the tension between the two
definitions, between the technical, theoretical task of interpretation and the art of
understanding texts, historical periods, and other people.

EXAMPLE.

PHENOMENOLOGY

Phenomenology is commonly understood in either of two ways: as a disciplinary field

in philosophy, or as a movement in the history of philosophy. Phenomenology may be
defined initially as the study of structures of experience, or consciousness.
Literally, phenomenology is the study of phenomena: appearances of things, or
things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the
meanings things have in our experience. Phenomenology studies conscious
experience as experienced from the subjective or first person point of view. This
field of philosophy is then to be distinguished from, and related to, the other main
fields of philosophy: ontology (the study of being or what is), epistemology (the
study of knowledge), logic (the study of valid reasoning), ethics (the study of right
and wrong action), etc.

EXAMPLE.

I see that fishing boat off the coast as dusk descends over the Pacific.

I hear that helicopter whirring overhead as it approaches the hospital.

I am thinking that phenomenology differs from psychology.

I wish that warm rain from Mexico were falling like last week.

I imagine a fearsome creature like that in my nightmare.

I intend to finish my writing by noon.

I walk carefully around the broken glass on the sidewalk.

I stroke a backhand cross-court with that certain underspin.

I am searching for the words to make my point in conversation.

PHILOSOPHERS OF HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

EDMUND HUSSERL

is the founder of phenomenology,proposed that phenomenological reseaarch

should be a purely descriptive process.

IDEAS OF HUSSERL IS

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

a student of husserl, conceived phenomenology as an interpretation of what

it means to exist in the world.

the own IDEAS in phenomenology is BEING AND TIME.

In "Being and Time" (1927) Heidegger unfurled his rendition of

phenomenology. For Heidegger, we and our activities are always in the
world, our being is being-in-the-world, so we do not study our activities by
bracketing the world, rather we interpret our activities and the meaning
things have for us by looking to our contextual relations to things in the
world. Indeed, for Heidegger, phenomenology resolves into what he called
fundamental ontology. We must distinguish beings from their being, and we
begin our investigation of the meaning of being in our own case, examining
our own existence in the activity of Dasein (that being whose being is in
each case my own).

human environment
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http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_11/demeterio_june2012.pdf

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Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Basic themes of hermeneutic phenomenology are
interpretation, textual meaning, dialogue,
preunderstanding, and tradition.