Phenomenological Tradition

• Phenomenology is naïve because real understanding comes from careful analysis of a system of effects
• It is difficult to detect or prevent induced bias
• What we call reality and facts are largely perceptions, and often others will see things differently

„This research was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP 4.2.4. A/1-11-1-2012-0001 ‘National Excellence Program’.”

Presentation prepared by

Natasa Ljesevic and Tin Deljanin

Classical Phenomenology

• Edmund Husselr (founder of modern phenomenology)

• Interpretation of experience that is objective and unbiased

Hermeneutic

Phenomenology

Phenomenological Tradition

Three different variations of phenomenology:

1. Classical Phenomenology

2. Phenomenology of perception

3. Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Hermeneutics

It is linking experience with language and social interaction that assumptions and pressupositons from traditions and past experiences provide interpretative frames.

Hermeneutic of Desein which means ‘’Interpretation of being’’

’Natural’’ experience that occurs just by living in the world, not by careful analysis

Understood through language as communication is the vehicle by which meaning is assigned to experience

Hermeneutic circle

Involves going back and forth between experiencing an event or situation and assigning meaning to it.

Concept that helps us to better understand the process of interpretation

Exercise

The human being is a unified physical and mental being who creates meaning in the physical world.

Human beings know things only through their own relationship to these things. For Maurice, things do not exist in and of themselves apart from how they are known

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Interpretation of experience that is subjective
• Experience is influenced by our perceptions connected to the personal relationships we have to things

typical experiences one might have in everyday life, characterized in the first person:

• 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.

SUBJECT-ACT-CONTENT-OBJECT

Phenomenology of perception

The Asthma Study

how people STRUCTURE THEIR EXPERIENCE

The discipline of Phenomenology

Phenomenology studies structures of conscious experience as experienced from the first-person point of view, along with relevant conditions of experience. The central structure of an experience is its intentionality, the way it is directed through its content or meaning toward a certain object in the world.

7 Traditions

* The process of knowing through direct experience. It is the way in which humans come to understand the world.

*Phenomenon refers to the appearance of an object, event or condition in one’s perception. Makes actual lived experience the basic data of reality.

Many theories try to understand the broad nature of communication.

Robert Craig developed a model that labelled and separated the field of communication into seven traditions:

• semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, socio-psychological, socio-cultural, critical, and rhetorical traditions.

Everyday we have images, symbols, signs, and impressions flashing before our eyes. Messages upon messages collide with our own sense of individuality and create the reality in which we perceive our existence.