Continuing Education
Institute for Hermeneutic Phenomenology
June 24 - 27, 2008
Location: Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-232-1882
Contact hours: 19 contact hours will be awarded upon successfully completing the requirements of the institute, attending all sessions, and completing an evaluation.
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This course provides for in-depth exploration of hermeneutic phenomenology in the context of research and scholarship in healthcare and the human sciences. Guided by a guest philosopher, participants will explore primary philosophical texts and share current philosophical scholarship across disciplines. Participants from all disciplines are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Participants will learn and experience:
- Neoteric interpretations of hermeneutic phenomenological texts and phenomena of interest offered by visiting scholars
- Introduction to newly released translations of phenomenological texts
- Contemporary interpretive scholarship presented by US and international researcher exploring issues in the health and human sciences
- Participation in a global community of interpretive scholars that meets yearly. This multi-disciplinary community welcomes everyone. Come and join us!
What is the institute like ?
Both didactic and experiential activities are included in the Institute design. Mornings are structured to provide presentations by and discussions with a visiting philosophical scholar. Afternoon sessions are flexible and may include presentation of completed interpretive studies, working sessions focused on group analysis of sample texts or small group discussions centering on topics of interest. Participants may gather for multi-site collaborative interpretive research meetings and informal dialogues with the visiting scholar.
Text for 2008
Mindfulness, Heidegger (1997/2006). This is a central text for coming to terms with Heidegger’s thinking from enowning (Ereignis) and is crucial in engaging the thinking of Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning). The careful language of this text—both the original German and now the English—rings true to what is ownmost to be-ing as emergence and to mindfulness. It enriches the possibility of thinking’s enacting character and challenges philosophical thinking to undergo the experience of the dynamic of be-ing as emergence.
With this focus, the text moves into the domain of “how humans think” this dynamic. If we see the enactive thinking of humans as participating in and coming to terms with the tension between emergence (of what is as it emerges) and the always present and participainag interpretation, then we are provided a thought-provoking glimpse of what it means to be on the planet at this time in this historical unfolding of be-ing.
As with Contributions, so too does Mindfulness, carry with it a kind of sounding or saying that is not readily accessible to our dominant dualistic, hierarchical metaphysics of presence. Rather it bespeaks absence, withdrawal, ab-ground as integral to emergence or coming-forth. What is the human being called upon to enact? What is thinking? How is interpretation to be understood, when a) there is always interpretation and b) emergence of what is is always at the heart of the matter.
Featured Philosopher
Dr. Kenn Maly is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Director of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He retired in December 2005 and moved to Toronto, where he continues his work as co-editor of Heidegger Studies as well as of Environmental Philosophy. He is General Editor of the book series New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, which is now being published by The University of Toronto Press. His book Heidegger's Possibility: Language, Emergence--Saying Be-ing will appear in 2007. He has edited two volumes on Heidegger and Heraclitus and has translated (along with Parvis Emad) three books by (and one about) Heidegger, including Heidegger's major work Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning).
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