Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Still Wondering (Tell Me Again... part 2)

Another fun quote from a text I paid a lot of money for:

"Phenomenology asks for the very nature of a phenomenon, for that which makes a some-"thing" what it is - and without which it could not be what it is."

But it gets better...

"The essence of a phenomenon is a universal which can be described through a study of the structure that governs the instances or particular manifestations of the essence of that phenomenon."

Yeah, what he said.

(Max van Manen, if you want more!)

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