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This website page is meant to provide some pre-readings and workshop readings for an introductory seminar on phenomenology. If you are new to phenomenology then you may find it helpful to read items from the introductory texts and some selections in your professional area of interest. For newcomers some of these texts may be somewhat challenging. I encourage you to open some files and read or download those that may interest you.

Simply click on the links for reading and/or downloading the items.

Here are some introductory texts:

editorial-But Is It Phenomenology?

2017 Phenomenology in Its Original Sense

Elsevier:Phenomenology entry

SAGE:Phenomenology entry

MvM Phen of Practice chapter1

Here are a few selected phenomenological readings from the general literature. If you have not done so already, I would recommend you read Merleau-Ponty’s “Preface” which is a classic in the philosophical literature:

Merleau-Ponty Preface

Heidegger - Question Concerning Technology

Derrida - Whom to Give to

Marion - the Question of Givenness

Adams - The secret body of the digital

Readings for possible workshop analysis

Van den Berg-The Sickbed

Van Lennep - The Hotel Room

Here are some selected readings related to health sciences:

Michael van Manen The Ventricular Assist Device

Michael-van-Manen-Looking-into-the-Neonatal-Isolette

Michael van Manen-Phen of the Monitor