Transnational Teaching: Evaluating the Application of Heideggerian Phenomenology and IPA in a Study of Lived Experiences

Transnational education has increased over the past decade for multiple reasons. Higher education institutions driven by a need to increase non-governmental funding and the concept of higher education as a commodity, have combined to cause many institutions to extend their activities into the field of transnational education partnerships. To ensure the survival of these strategic alliances, teaching faculty are required to service the commodity being exported from the UK. This unique study uses this context to evaluate the application of Heideggerian phenomenology and IPA as a means of analyzing the lived experiences of academic practitioners and the effects on their being. The study concludes that Heideggerian philosophical thought provides an insightful lens when combined with IPA, by providing access to an individual’s personal perception of events as opposed to other methodologies that simply attempt to produce an objective account of the event itself. Two vignettes from the data exemplify how the approach can help us understand participant lived experiences in a given context, as well as documenting the wider benefits of applying this approach in other studies that concern the lived experiences of individuals.

The Relevance of Natorp’s Criticism of Husserl to the Hermeneutical Transformation of Heidegger’s Phenomenology

This article will show how Natorp’s criticism of Husserlian phenomenology was one of the most important triggers of the hermeneutical transformation of Heideggerian phenomenology. Concepts like hermeneutical intuition, or tools like formal indication, are the means that Heidegger worked out in order to preserve the phenomenological access to pre-theoretical life as it gives itself. The first part of this article is devoted to presenting Natorp’s criticisms of Husserl’s phenomenology and Husserl’s attempts to answer them. The second part will illustrate how Heidegger, criticizing Natorp, retrieves the validity of the phenomenological intuition and expression by opening up their original, pre-theoretical meanings. It will conclude with a few critical remarks concerning Heidegger’s attempt to describe the motivation of philosophical activity in transcendental terms.

Conclusion

This conclusion will explore how the late poem ‘L’Heure présente’ (2012) rearticulates the conception of ontological performance that Bonnefoy first develops in ‘La Terre’ (1975). It will analyse how Bonnefoy argues that poetry becomes an ontological performance when, having experienced the loss of any form of metaphysical absolute, and having been intimately exposed to the negativity of finite existence, we perceive value and sense in dynamic terms as the very praxis by which existence endlessly dissolves and opens itself up anew. Examining how Bonnefoy and Nancy both embrace this dynamic of opening and seek to make it felt within their writings, this conclusion will explore how the inherently ecstatic conception of textual performance that they develop resists the anthropocentrism of Heideggerian phenomenology and anticipates the turn towards the body and the material real that has occurred in recent French and Francophone poetry and philosophy.

Experience of people with advanced cancer faced with the impossibility of cure: a phenomenological analysis

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the experience of people with advanced-stage cancer given the impossibility of curing the disease. Method: A research based on the Heideggerian phenomenology conducted with 11 people with advanced-stage cancer. Data was collected between November 2015 and March 2016 through an open interview. Results: From the understanding of the reports, three themes emerged: Finding the inevitable possibility of death; Finding oneself through anguish and suffering; Seeking to transcend the existential anguish given the possibility of death. Conclusion and implications for practice: Experiencing incurability or re-experiencing cancer gives patients feelings of apprehension, fear, and frustration. However, suffering causes them to reflect on life and to set out on a new path, founded, above all, on spirituality. The need to accept the “Being” in its human totality is evident, considering its doubts and apprehensions, transcending its physical needs and entering into its biopsychosocial world.

Origem fenomenológica e degeneração ontológica

Este artigo expõe duas teses sobre a fenomenologia: i) a fenomenologia em Husserl e Heidegger tem de ser compreendida como uma investigação sobre a origem ou a gênese. Há um conceito fenomenológico de origem que se diferencia do conceito metafísico que caracteriza a tradição filosófica; ii) a fenomenologia heideggeriana apresenta uma distinção essencial em relação à filosofia de Husserl, pois compreende a origem fenomenológica conjuntamente com um movimento de degeneração ontológica. Ao final, indica-se como essa relação entre origem e degeneração repercute sobre a compreensão de Heidegger acerca da linguagem filosófica.This paper presents two theses on phenomenology: i) phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger should be understood as an investigation concerning origin or genesis. There is a phenomenological concept of origin that differs from the metaphysical concept which characterizes the philosophical tradition; ii) Heideggerian phenomenology presents an essential distinction in relation to Husserl's philosophy, since it understands the phenomenological origin together with a movement of ontological degeneration. In the end, we point out how this relation between origin and degeneration has a repercussion on Heidegger's understanding of philosophical language.

O conceito de fenomenologia de Martin Heidegger em Ser e Tempo

O conceito de fenomenologia de Martin Heidegger em Ser e Tempo Resumo: O objetivo de nosso artigo é analisar o conceito de fenomenologia heideggeriano no § 7 da obra Ser e Tempo. Procuramos examinar em que medida Heidegger pretende precisar a necessidade de re-pensar a questão do sentido do ser, devido à ausência de uma reposta adequada sobre o mesmo na História da Filosofia. Detivemo-nos a analisar qual o sentido da reelaboração do lema: “de volta às coisas elas-mesmas” que Heidegger trabalha em relação ao seu mestre Husserl. Propomos examinar a posição especial de Heidegger face ao problema da articulação da ontologia com a fenomenologia. E qual a inovação é acrescentada a Fenomenologia enquanto método quando Heidegger a interpreta como uma Hermenêutica da factualidade para seu projeto filosófico. Palavras-chave: Fenômeno, Logos, Fenomenologia, Ontologia e c. The concept of Phenomenology in Heidegger's Being and Time Abstract: The objective of our article is to analyze the concept of heideggerian phenomenology in § 7 of the work Being and Time. We try to examine to what extent Heidegger intends to specify the necessity of re-thinking the question of the sense of being, due to the absence of an adequate answer on the same in the History of Philosophy. We were left to analyze the meaning of the re-elaboration of the motto: "back to the things themselves" that Heidegger works in relation to his master Husserl. We propose to examine Heidegger's special position on the problem of articulation of ontology with phenomenology. And what innovation is added to Phenomenology as a method when Heidegger interprets it as a Hermeneutics of factuality for his philosophical project. Keywords: Phenomenon, Logos, Phenomenology, Ontology and Hermeneutics Data de registro: 06/11/2018 Data de aceite: 25/02/2019

The Everyday in Heidegger’s Revolutionary Thought

The article emphasizes the primacy of the everyday in Heidegger’s ecstatic thinking. It assumes the crucial link between practical and ontological aspects of Heideggerian phenomenology and thus also deals with the hermeneutic and political aspects of the Heideggerian stance. The latter is presented as inseparable from (post)modern revolutionary mood as his reconsidering of the concept of essence implies reconsidering the concept of revolution. Links between the meaning of the phenomenological terms of das Man, der Schein, etc. and the Greek thinking of essence are stressed. The Greek inspired phenomenological solution to the guiding practical and hermeneutic issue of our time – that of withdrawal of gods – is presented as the gist of Heideggerian thought.