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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"existential-phenomenology"”.
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The Existential Phenomenology of Hazel E. Barnes: Toward a Theory of Existential Leadership
<p>This project engages the Existential Phenomenology of Hazel E. Barnes to demonstrate that in being-in-the-world, the world and engagement with others are prior to being. Barnes makes a significant contribution to Existential Phenomenology with her idea of good faith where, not naïve to human …
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
… Jung and their followers; his relationship to existential phenomenology; and his relationship to Asian philosophy. Howe utilized existential phenomenology and Asian philosophy to elucidate the nature of his ambivalence as well as to critique the doctrinaire approach of many analytically …
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… results due to technological encouragement of existential and communicative closure, thereby negatively implicating the human condition, human communication and communication ethics practices. As such, this project considers Marshall McLuhan’s Media Ecology to examine the communicative …
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Human death: a phenomenological account
… a study of human death from the point of view of existential phenomenology. The fundamental aim of this thesis has therefore been to provide an outline for the existential phenomenological study of human death. In this regard, such an attempt may suggest that I have a clear, preconceived idea as …
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The nurse's spirit: The lived experience of spirituality for nurses who work in palliative care settings
… spirituality from nurses' perspectives. Methods: Existential Phenomenology using the approach developed by Thomas & Pollio (2002); six participants engaged in a one hour interview and reported their perceptions about spirituality. Results: Three common themes were identified by the participants …
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The Experience of Christian Prayer in Coaching: A Qualitative Investigation
… profession. A humanistic framework, specifically existential-phenomenology, which was centered on seeing the individual being interviewed as the expert on the matter at hand (Dale, 1996) was used to allow for an information rich and detailed description of the coaches' experience. Four themes …
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Communication and Response-ability: Levinas and Kierkegaard in Conversation
… in the ability to rethink ethics in terms of "existential pathos." To that end, this study locates communicative responsibility in the responsive element of the self-other relation by relying primarily on the work of the twentieth-century Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. I …
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The concept of the lived world : an introduction to the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
… development which led to the writing of "The Phenomenology of Perception". Our approach is phenomenological. We wish to understand Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology as itself an intentional movement, as the "coming about" of the structure of intentionality, or as we will refer to it, …
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Invisible landscapes : landscape, memory and time in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
… explores the implications of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology as an approach to Sebald's Austerlitz, by showing that while phenomenology provides a valuable conceptual framework through which to engage the novel, there are aspects of this phenomenological approach which Sebald's work, …
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Death and dying in the emergency department: a phenomenological study of the experiences of family members and nursing staff
… phenomenological study was planned, based on the existential phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty; and framed by the nurse theorist Hildegard Peplau. Eleven bereaved family members and eight registered nurses gave in- depth interviews describing their experiences and the interviews were analysed using …
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The relationship of therapist meditation practice to their existential therapeutic work
… practice and the therapeutic work performed by existential therapists. Through in-depth interviews with therapist-meditators (n=8), the study fills a crucial gap in empirical research concerning the phenomenological experiences of existential therapists who incorporate meditation practices into …
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The Language of Real Life: Self-possession in the Poetry of Paul Celan, T. S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Valéry
… a secular alternative to theology with his existential phenomenology. Theology, poetry, and phenomenology share the basic concern of explaining the foundations of being. For Heidegger, ownership characterizes being in a fundamental way; in Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), he …
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An analysis of teachers‟ exemplary instructional strategies in relation to NSSCO learners‟ learning difficulties in solving algebraic equations in Omaruru circuit
… using a quasi-experimental design and an existential phenomenology design to identify learners‟ learning difficulties in Algebra as well as the instructional strategies employed by teachers to assist those learners. One public school was purposively sampled, and one private school was …
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The meaning of transformative dreams
… of their problem immediately upon awakening?". Existential-phenomenology from the perspective of a story was used to describe the meaning of the experience for ten individuals, nine women and one man, whose ages ranged from 23 to 48. From transcripts of the interviews, ten individual accounts of …
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The great problems are in the street : a phenomenology of men's stranger intrusions on women in public spaces
… feminist approaches to VAWG with the gendered existential-phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir and insights on habitual embodiments from Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Using this theoretical framework the empirical evidence is investigated for what it reveals about modalities of embodied subjectivity …
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Exploring the phenomenology of clinical and non-clinical depression: a Q-methodological study
… and drawing on social constructionism and existential-phenomenology (particularly the work of Kenneth Gergen, Rom Harré and Martin Heidegger), I ask the questions ‘How do participants experience (clinical and non-clinical/self-identified) depression? How do participants’ experiences …
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Sprache als Be-wëgen: The Unfolding of Language and Being in Heidegger's Later Work, 1949-1976
… three main models have been proposed: (1) existential phenomenology, exemplified by Joseph Langan in the 1950s; (2) the popular thought of Being model in the 1960s as developed by William Richardson; (3) and in counter distinction to these unified models Joseph Kockelmans offers in the …
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Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love
… of human character development with principle of existential and humanistic thought. Jean-Paul Sartre's existential-phenomenology of sadomasochistic relations is also examined. Fromm and Sartre both de-emphasized sex as a primary cause of sadomasochism and placed human sociality (i.e., …
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation
… on theories that are aligned with embodied existential phenomenology and enactive cognitive science. The participants in this research project were adult survivors of bowel cancer who had no active disease and were between a few months and 20 years after finishing their cancer treatment. …
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation.
… on theories that are aligned with embodied existential phenomenology and enactive cognitive science. The participants in this research project were adult survivors of bowel cancer who had no active disease and were between a few months and 20 years after finishing their cancer treatment. …
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