The Phenomenology of Everyday Life: Empirical Investigations of Human Experience

by Howard R. Pollio , Tracy B. Henley , Craig J. Thompson

• ISBN13: 9780521031400
• ISBN10: 0521031400
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Phenomenology of Everyday Life presents results from a rigorous qualitative approach to the psychological study of everyday human activities and experiences. This book does not replace scientific observation with humanistic analysis, but provides an additional perspective on significant human questions. The qualitative approach this book employs is grounded in the philosophical traditions of existentialism and phenomenology, which use dialogue as their major method of inquiry. These traditions are especially well adapted to encompass and describe human events and activities. In addition, such events can be properly investigated only on the basis of a method sensitive enough to articulate the nuances of human experience and reflection. In this latter regard, it is important to note that insights deriving from literature and the humanities are equally revealing of the human world as those from experimental psychology, biology, or medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface

Existential-Phenomenology and the Science of Psychology

The nature of human experience

Dialogue as method: the phenomenological interview

Grounding the World of Everyday Life

The body as lived: themes in the human experience of the human body

Time in human life

The human experience of other people

Selected Topics from Everyday Life

Feeling alone

Making amends: the psychology of reparation

Love and loving

Falling a

The meanings of death in the context of life

The Phenomenology of Everyday Life

Toward an empirical existential-phenomenological psychology

References

Indexes

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