Phenomenology demanded a transformative mode of thinking that also yielded concrete results
Evidence
Like all philosophy, phenomenology made great demands on its practitioners. It required ‘a different thinking’, Jaspers wrote; ‘a thinking that, in knowing, reminds me, awakens me, brings me to myself, transforms me’. It could do all that, and also give results. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 150
Yet none of this uncertainty could dim the excitement. Like all philosophy, phenomenology made great demands on its practitioners. It required ‘a different thinking’, Jaspers wrote; ‘a thinking that, in knowing, reminds me, awakens me, brings me to myself, transforms me’. It could do all that, and also give results. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 150
Categorization
- DEFINE: Capsules Jaspers’ sense of phenomenology as a transformative self-awakening practice, not merely an analytical method.
- XREF: The promise of a thinking that transforms rather than merely informs anticipates the existentialist focus on lived conversion, resonant with what the reader likely knows of Sartre’s and Heidegger’s self-transformation aims. — connects to: Expanding the interpretive horizon transforms the object of study itself. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1738; Phenomenology restores the unnoticed richness of everyday experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 147; Phenomenology appealed to early adopters as a synthesis of psychology’s method and philosophy’s ambition — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 149 (+5 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 150
Broader Connections
- Modern embodied cognition research descends from phenomenology’s bodily focus
#expands(0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1951 - Bracketing is the essential cognitive act enabling all three Kantian domains of experience
#expands(0.70) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 335