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1、;/()~OnPhenomenologyanditsPractices1/U-V~RobertBurchUniversityofAlbertaAconcretephilosophyisnotahappyphilosophy.Itmustholdclosetoexperience,andyetnotlimititselftotheempiricalbutre•storeineachexperiencetheontologicalcipherthatmarksitin•ternally.(Merleau-Ponty,1964a)Itwasth
2、epracticeofaformercolleague,anostalgicadmirerofJ2.S.Mill,tobeginthesegmentofhercourseinthephilosophyofthesocialsciencestowhichshereferred,rathertellingly,as"TheNon-ScientificApproaches"withthefollowingstrategy.Shewouldannouncetoherstudentsthat,insteadofstudyingmethodologi
3、caltreatisesonthesubject,theyweretolearnaboutphenomenologyinadirectandpracticalway.Tothatend,shewouldsay,eachonewastochoosesomeaspectofhisorhereverydayexperience,somethingsimpleandstraightforward,and,settingasideallinterpretationsandcausalaccounts,writeadescriptionofthate
4、xperience,tellingwhatitwaslike,per•sonally,asaneventofhisorherownconsciousness.Happyforanyrespitefromthedemandsofconceptualanalysis,thestu•dentswouldtypicallywarmtothetask.Unbeknownsttothem,however,theirfledglingeffortswereneverread,thougheachonewouldbepromptlyreturnedbea
5、ringthesametersecom•ment:"tooabstract,interpretiveandtheoretical,notconcretenordescriptiveenough."Lessenthusiastically,thestudentswouldsetaboutrewriting;yetwitheachrevisionmycolleaguewouldtakethesametack.Thiscyclewouldcontinueuntil,atlast,someexasperatedstudentwouldinevit
6、ablyblurtout:"Thisishopeless!""Yesitis,"mycolleaguewouldconcede."Somuchforphenomenology."Phenomenologistsareapttofindtheplotofthisdramamoregallingthanchallenging.Afterall,ithingesontakingoneaspectofaphenomenologicalprocedure,abstractingitfromthebroadercontextandpurposesin
7、termsofwhichaloneitcouldmakesenseandbedefended,andusesthisonunwittingstu•dentstodismissphenomenologytoutcourt.Evenmyerstwhilecolleaguewouldhavehadtograntthedubiousnessofthestrategy.For,withequallyscantexplanationorguidance,onemightjustaswell(orasbadly)haveaskedtheclasstog
8、arnerstatisticaldatarandomlyfromtheirobservationsofclassroomPhenomenology+PedagogyVolume71989187
