The Doing of the Thing Itself

Figal, Günter

doi:10.1017/ccol0521801931.006

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“…In addition, playing is serious, as opposed to the traditional view of play in the aesthetic tradition of Kant and Schiller, where play was seen as a way to escape reality. (Grondin, 2001; Figal, 2002). Gadamerian play is not a place of retreat from real life; on the contrary, play is a serious experience of being present in reality (Gadamer, 2004, pp.…”

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Knowledge creation and play

Suorsa

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for empirically studying knowledge creation (KC) with phenomenological approach and propose that understanding interaction as play conceptualized by Hans-Georg Gadamer allows examining KC starting from the idea of a human being interacting in the events of co-creation. The presented framework is used to examine KC in a community of librarians and teachers collaborating to promote children’s joy of reading. Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic approach is applied to investigate knowledge-creating interaction in a working community. The triangulated data consist of ethnographic observations and video recordings of the community’s gatherings, its members’ interviews and produced documents. Findings The phenomenological conceptions of temporality of a human being and play are suitable for understanding being in the knowledge-creating interaction, as they give means to understand the meaningfulness of the past experiences, but promote an open attitude toward the future possibilities in a way which promotes KC. Studying interactive events allows understanding how KC can be examined as a collective accomplishment. The playful mode of being in the event was seen as a way to use the limited time available for interaction effectively. Research limitations/implications The empirical study was conducted in one community, and further research is needed to test the developed approach in other contexts. Practical implications The results may be utilized to develop organizational circumstances, which promote KC by acknowledging the meaningfulness of interaction. Originality/value The study presents a novel way to conceptualize and examine KC as an experience and an event with phenomenological approach.

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge creation and play

Suorsa

2017

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“…Although calling self-awareness “a flickering” may sound submissive, Gadamer does not deny individuality (Figal, 2002). Historicity refers to the framework within which individuality takes place.…”

Section: Hermeneutic Standards For Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting for the messiness of the research process: the fieldpath approach

Salovaara

2018

QROM

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Purpose It has recently become more acknowledged that there is a quality of “messiness” to the qualitative research process. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the fieldpath approach—a hermeneutically inspired framework—to account for the non-linearity, uncertainty and ambiguity of the research process. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper reviews how the scope of hermeneutics has been partly misunderstood. The paper discusses how the scope of hermeneutics has lately been expanded by works such as Günter Figal’s (2010) Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy. Findings The fieldpath approach proposes that a heightened relation to materiality enables the messiness of the process to be preserved, while at the same time offering a way to find one’s footing in the midst of ontologically incomplete phenomena that are still—in a processual fashion—forming and becoming. Research limitations/implications This is a conceptual paper. In addition to the research mentioned here, more studies would be needed to legitimise, test and refine the approach. Practical implications Objectivity provides an additional criterion for researchers to lean on when facing the non-linearity and unexpected turns inherent in the qualitative research process. Social implications The stress on materiality involves an ethical dimension. Post-human ethics are concerned with the future environmental consequences and sustainability of the material world. The way that matter matters in our methodologies is of primary importance. Originality/value First, the paper emphasises that hermeneutics, contrary to the common perception, does offer criteria for evaluating between interpretations. Second, it introduces the notion of hermeneutic objectivity, which stresses the importance of materiality for interpretations. Third, it introduces the fieldpath approach, which, based on the previous criterion of hermeneutic objectivity, allows for the messiness of the research process, while also preserving a tight grip on the hermeneutic imperative of “understanding in a new way”.

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“…An approach to interpreting Verbal Hallucinations, thus, ought to cohere with an analysis of the nature of language and understanding. It is for these reasons, I argue, that, in explicating the hermeneutic task of interpreting the content of VHs, we can fruitfully turn to Gadamer’s ontology of language, which, as Figal (2002) notes, “takes the path to that Being that language is through the experience of conversation” (p. 106).…”

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“…For Gadamer, it is in conversation that “one experiences what it is to be in language” (Figal, 2002, p. 106). Thus, an ontology of language must begin with an analysis of understanding as an event that occurs during conversation.…”

Section: Toward a Hermeneutic Of Verbal Hallucinationsmentioning

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Interpreting verbal hallucinations: The relevance of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics.

Brar¹

2018

The Humanistic Psychologist

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This article seeks to defend the thesis that Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) can be interpretable and meaningful phenomena. By meaningful, I mean to argue that AVHs can be motivated events-even if they are experienced as alien and uncontrollable-and, as such, they are expressions the meanings of which can be seen as determined in a manner comparable with dialogical speech. In working toward a hermeneutic of AVHs, I will begin by reviewing pertinent literature that justifies the claim that we can view certain cases of AVHs as essentially involving a disruption to one's relationship with inner speech and thought. From here, given a view of AVHs as fundamentally dialogical, I argue that the interpretation of AVHs ought to be grounded within an analysis of the nature of language and understanding. For this, I will turn to the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, whose ontology of language can be said as being formulated via an explication of linguistic understanding as it occurs in conversation and, thus, of significant relevance to understanding the nature and meaning of AVHs as they are construed in this article. The hermeneutic framework developed in this article will be further elaborated on and applied by discussing a clinical example.

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The Doing of the Thing Itself

Cited by 24 publications

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Knowledge creation and play

Knowledge creation and play

Accounting for the messiness of the research process: the fieldpath approach

Interpreting verbal hallucinations: The relevance of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics.

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