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Coffee is an important commodity and an important comestible, one that is momentous not only for nations' economies but also, at the micro-social level, as a resource for interpersonal sociability. Among a subculture of certain coffee... more
It has been suggested that modernity and what comes in its wake have replaced the search for Truth with an examination of language and meaning . This transformation, a semiotic turn, reflects an unprecedented perfusion of signs not only... more
Friendship, as a unique form of social relationship, establishes a particular union among individual human beings which allows them to overcome diverse boundaries between individual subjects. Age, gender or cultural differences do not... more
Coffee is an important commodity and an important comestible, one that is momentous not only for nations' economies but also, at the micro-social level, as a resource for interpersonal sociability. Among a subculture of certain coffee... more
Susan Kozel's book, Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology, offers an ambitious, eclectic, and imaginative retrospective account of Kozel's own experiments with choreography, performance, and digital technologies,... more
Coffee is an important commodity and an important comestible, one that is momentous not only for nations' economies but also, at the micro-social level, as a resource for interpersonal sociability. Among a subculture of certain coffee... more
In his writings Alfred Schutz identifies an artificiality in the concept of “life-world” produced by Edmund Husserl's method of reduction. As an alternative, he proposes to assume intersubjectivity as a given of everyday life. This... more
In the present paper, I intend to systematically revisit Thomas Luckmann’s account of the relation between phenomenology and sociology and to assess its strengths and weaknesses in terms of constructive criticism. In order to achieve this... more
The article presents the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD). SKAD, which has been in the process of development since the middle of the 1990s, is now a widely used framework among social scientists in discourse research... more
Anatomically detailed dolls have been used to elicit testimony from children in sex abuse cases. However, studies have shown they often provide false accounts in young, preschool-age children. Typically this problem is seen as a cognitive... more
This essay presents a phenomenological analysis of the functioning of symbols as elements of the life-world with the purpose of demonstrating the interrelationship of individual and society. On the basis of Alfred Schutz's theory of the... more
In his new book Meaning and Modernity: Social Theory in the Pragmatic Attitude, Rochberg-Halton uses Fritz Janschka's painting of 1948 Wohin gehst Du? as a central illustration of his thesis. Janschka's painting depicts a 'bombed-out... more
Can a phenomenology of culture be at the same time a philosophy of culture? In other words, can a descriptive exploration of acts and objects of culture serve at the same time as a critical reflection on those acts and objects? Or does... more
Gender and security are concepts which hold infinite categorization and clarification. Gender is a system of symbolic meaning and applications, held within contemporary scholarship and politics indicate. The relationship between gender... more
This essay describes institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry pioneered by Dorothy E. Smith, and introduces a collection of papers which make distinctive contributions to the development of this novel form of investigation.... more
This paper discusses the relation between the later Husserl and the later Heidegger regarding their criticisms of modern science and technology. It is suggested that the overlap between both accounts is more significant than is standardly... more
Giacomo Marramao, Kairós: Towards an Ontology of “Due Time.” Trans. Philip Larrey and Silvia Cattaneo. The Davies Group Publishers, Aurora, CO, 2007, 90 pp + xiiTime represents, “from time immemorial, one of the main themes of Western... more
Last year Michel Foucault would have turned 60-at least as far as a life can be measured in discrete units; for his mind seemed forever restless and youthful, perennially on the verge of new discoveries, o]"bold voyages to unknown lands.... more
In What Things Do, Verbeek (What things do: philosophical reflections on technology, agency and design. Penn State University Press, University Park, 2005a) develops a vocabulary for understanding the social role of technological... more
This paper discusses ethnomethodology’s program in relation to the phenomenological life-world analysis of Alfred Schutz. A recent publication of Garfinkel’s early writings sheds new light on how he made use of phenomenological... more
This article brings out certain philosophical difficulties in Lacan's account of the mirror stage, the initial moment of the subject's development. For Lacan, the ''original organization of the forms of the ego'' is ''precipitated'' in an... more
In recent years, various attempts have been made to advance a project sometimes characterized as "discursive psychology". Grounded in what its proponents term "social constructionism", the discursive approach to the elucidation of... more
This paper examines an aspect of the grammar-interaction interface with respect to how participants orient to intra-turn phrasal unit boundaries as a locus that has interactional import for turn and sequence organization in Korean... more
This paper offers a detailed account of Foucault's ethical and political notion of individuality as presented in his late work, and discusses its relationship to the feminist project of the theory of sexual difference. I argue that... more
This article seeks to provide a phenomenological inquiry into schizophrenia through which I propose to bring to the fore the mental violence exercised against the self in the case of a psychotic patient. My main aim is to show that a... more
was a good friend of this journal and had published his work in Human Studies at various times. His death is noted in the various papers that follow and are contributions from some of his former students, colleagues, and friends who have... more
Throughout the consistently provocative, frequently profound, and often moving correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, there are a number of disagreements. 1 Some are minor, others major; some are resolved, others not. In... more
This paper compares Harold Garfinkel’s phenomenologically informed “radical” ethnomethodology and Emanuel Schegloff’s “classical” Conversation Analysis, by focusing on their treatments of a ringing telephone as a summons. In their... more
This paper aims to deal with the change of sexual discourse through the rise of a feminist movement in Korea from a constructivist point of view. First, the paper discusses the Confucianism of the Chosun dynasty as an historical... more
This article provides an introductory overview of the theories of Paul Virilio, particularly regarding how technologically-enhanced speed impacts human reality. It positions Virilio as part modernist, part postmodernist and discusses how... more
The question of whether Heidegger’s phenomenological contribution to the philosophy of being originates from his pre-philosophical attitude to theology or rather, it is the methodological question of phenomenology which influenced his... more
This article analyzes the moral relevance of technological artifacts and its possible role in ethical theory, by taking the postphenomenological approach that has developed around the work of Don Ihde into the domain of ethics. By... more
Theodore W. Adorno, Against epistemology. A metacritique, trans, by Willis Domingo. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1983.
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