A Call for Papers: Doing Phenomenology: Back to the Things Themselves! 2009
“Methodologies and Practices”
This panel of collaborative phenomenological description will take place as a workshop during the Society for the Study of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture’s (EPTC) annual meeting at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Ottawa, Ontario, May 26-29, 2009. For more information, see the EPTC website.
Back to the Things Themselves! is an attempt to temporarily liberate ourselves from textual exegesis, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through rigorous phenomenological description. Husserl’s call to return zu der Sachen selbst has only been intermittently heeded by subsequent generations of phenomenologists, the majority of which have generally focused on contributing to and elaborating on the enormous critical apparatus issuing from the founding texts of the movement. Back to the Things Themselves! proposes to build on the important contributions of such scholarship by using them to guide our reflections on phenomena in the lifeworld.