This interview was originally published in Trondalen & Stensæth (Eds.)(2012). Series from Centre for Music and Health, 5 (pp. 195-226). Oslo: Norwegian Academy of Music. The interview is republished ...in Voices with the kind permission from the authors and the publisher.
The philosophical question has an existentially touching dimension but, at the same time, entails an experience that goes beyond the self. It involves the contemporary others that ask the same ...questions and those who lived before beset by similar doubts. This work explores this second aspect. It reflects on some methodological issues related to the kind of question we address when we look at the past. We will characterise some views on the ancient philosophical question often associated with first philosophy. Then, we will consider some contemporary views, and in this framework, we will dwell on Husserl's contributions related to the retrospective question, the institution of meaning, and the notion of Denkergemeinschaft.
This study provides a framework for assessing doctors' verbal engagement during medical consultations. It quantifies doctors' degrees of resonance (Du Bois, 2014), a form of interactional alignment ...(Pickering and Garrod, 2021) that occurs when speakers imitate and re-use words and constructions uttered by their interlocutors. Resonance often involves creativity and active participation in others’ speech, overtly signalling that what they said is relevant for continuing the interaction (Tantucci and Wang, 2021). We looked at Chinese naturalistic consultations and explored whether resonance produced by Chinese doctors with a background in Western medicine (WM) differs from Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctors. Our data includes 60 online medical consultations and shows that TCM doctors’ resonance is remarkably higher. This reflected stronger involvement in patients’ speech in combination with other interactional indicators of engagement such as sentence peripheral markers of intersubjectivity (Tantucci, 2021) and strategies of relevance acknowledgement (Tantucci, 2023). The pragmatics of TCM doctors is also characterised by a more directive language geared towards a healthy lifestyle, whereas WM doctors favour etiological assessment, with a predominant use of assertive speech acts.
•This study provides a replicable framework to assess verbal engagement in dialogue and health communication.•It analyses Chinese doctors' verbal engagement with patients during consultations.•Resonance involves re-using an interlocutor's expressions and contributes to verbal engagement.•Traditional Chinese medicine doctors engage with their patients more than Western Medicine doctors.•Their speech is geared towards advice-giving; Western medicine doctors favour etiological assessment.
As an iconic image of our time, the selfie has attracted much attention in popular media and scholarly writing. The focus so far has been on the representation of the self or subjectivity. We propose ...a complementary perspective that foregrounds the intersubjective function of the selfie. We argue that the presence of selfhood is often an assumption. What distinguishes the selfie from other photographic genres is its ability to enact intersubjectivity – the possibility for difference of perspectives to be created and this difference to be shared between the image creator and the viewer. Based on a social semiotic analysis of selfies on Instagram, we identify four subtypes of selfie, each deploying a combination of visual resources to represent a distinct form of intersubjectivity. Our analysis suggests that the potential for empowerment is inherent in the visual structure of the selfie, and that, as a genre, it is open for recontextualisation across contexts and social media platforms.
Agents without agency Côté, Adam
Security dialogue,
12/2016, Volume:
47, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This article assesses the role of the audience in securitization theory. The main argument is that in order to accurately capture the role of the securitization audience, it must be theorized as an ...active agent, capable of having a meaningful effect on the intersubjective construction of security values. Through a meta-synthesis of 32 empirical studies of securitization, this article focuses on two central questions: (1) Who is the audience? (2) How does the audience engage in the construction of security? When assessed against the theoretical works on securitization, this analysis reveals that the manner in which the audience is defined and characterized within securitization theory differs with the empirical literature that investigates securitization processes. Where the empirical literature suggests securitization is a highly intersubjective process involving active audiences, securitization theory characterizes audiences as agents without agency, thereby marginalizing the theory’s intersubjective nature. This article sketches a new characterization of the securitization audience and outlines a framework for securitizing actor–audience interaction that better accounts for securitization theory’s linguistic and intersubjective character, addresses this theoretical/empirical conflict, and improves our understanding of how groups select and justify security priorities and costly security policies.
In response to Eric Schwartz's creative and timely paper, this discussion focuses on three points: First, that analytic patients of this social and cultural moment call upon us to reformulate even ...relatively recent understandings of-to use Stephen Mitchell's phrase-"what the patient needs," agreeing with Schwartz that contemporary analytic subjects are liable to be much more deeply and consistently troubled by the social realm and their places within it. Second, the concept of implication is put forward here as a way to elaborate and deepen our understanding of what is called for in the kind of intersubjective meeting that Schwartz illustrates. Third, this discussion takes up some additional considerations in applying Schwartz's proposed adaptation of a Fairbairnian model in understanding the role of ideology in psychic structuring; concluding that in acknowledging subtle, multiple, and conflicting feelings and attachments in ourselves, we may inhabit our complex implication in ways that further the kind of responsive intersubjective engagement that our patients and our moment ask of us.
Reply to Comments Lenz, Martin
Journal of Spinoza Studies,
12/2023, Volume:
2, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This is a reply to the comments by Daniel Bella, Lorina Buhr, Andrea Blättler, and Ivo Eichhorn. The individual responses attempt to identify the main challenges of the pieces and sketch answers to ...questions or elaborations on issues raised.
Geography and post-phenomenology Ash, James; Simpson, Paul
Progress in human geography,
02/2016, Volume:
40, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This paper examines geography’s engagements with phenomenology. Tracing phenomenology’s influence, from early humanist reflections on the lifeworld to non-representational theories of practice, the ...paper identifies the emergence of a distinct post-phenomenological way of thinking. However, there is currently no clear articulation of what differentiates post-phenomenology from phenomenology as a set of theories or ideas, nor is there a clear set of trajectories along which such difference can be pursued further. In response to this, the paper outlines three key elements that differentiate phenomenology from post-phenomenology and that require further exploration. First is a rethinking of intentionality as an emergent relation with the world, rather than an a priori condition of experience. Second is a recognition that objects have an autonomous existence outside of the ways they appear to or are used by human beings. Third is a reconsideration of our relations with alterity, taking this as central to the constitution of phenomenological experience given our irreducible being-with the world. Unpacking these differences, the paper offers some suggestions as to how post-phenomenology contributes to the broader discipline of human geography.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe psychiatric nurses’ understanding and practice with regard to the care of patients with schizophrenia by examining the nurses’ embodied experience ...of providing that care.Methods: Semi-structured interviews regarding episodes of providing care for patients with schizophrenia were conducted with 15 nurses who had three or more years of experience working with such patients. Data were analyzed using a phenomenological approach based on Merleau-Ponty’s ideas on embodiment.Results: 1. The nurses’ embodied understanding of patients with schizophrenia and how to care for them was found to have two dimensions: corporeal and linguistic.2. According to the nurses, living was found to be difficult for patients with schizophrenia for three reasons. Two related to corporeality: “They can’t adapt to their bodies” and “They feel threatened by the bodies of others.” The other related to expressing themselves through language: “They have difficulty living their lives in a way that they can be themselves.”3. In the nurses’ care practices related to each of these difficulties, they tried to “Treat the patient’s illness by relating to them,” “Resonating,” and “Being responsive.”Discussion: The results suggested that through the phenomenon of intercorporeality, the psychiatric nurses were able to treat the difficulties that patients with schizophrenia had in life—which stemmed from their “malformed sense of self”—by relating to them using embodied knowledge about how to interact with them.
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