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New Department & Degree Program: ABSTRACT Phenomenology
What is the best description of Phenomenology?
1- (the) philosophy of phenomenology, objective of which is the direct investigation and description of phenomena as consciously experienced — without theories about their causal explanation, and as free as possible from unexamined preconceptions and presuppositions.Edmund Husserl, c. 1930.
Although, as seen from Husserl’s last perspective, all departures from his own views could appear only as heresies to him (and any individual studying it, so no scientific means exist that either “test/evaluate” nor refute Phenomenology. A more generous assessment will show that all those who consider themselves phenomenologists subscribe, for instance, to his watchword, zu den Sachen selbst (“to the things themselves”), by which they meant the taking of a fresh approach to concretely experienced phenomena—an approach as free as possible from conceptual presuppositions—and the attempt to describe them as faithfully as possible, and often fail.Moreover, most adherents to phenomenology hold that it is possible to obtain insights into the essential structures and the essential relationships of these phenomena on the basis of a careful study of concrete examples supplied by experience or imagination and by a systematic variation of these examples in the imagination.
I propose Abstract Phenomenology as our new area of unerring focus, in our error-ridden, unfocused state. Phenomenology is less studies, if at all. “ABSTRACT” study of an already tailor-made, obscure & murky, subject, coupled with futile chase after phenomenology , would suit us very well at ABIDE: no one else studies Abstract Phenomenology, because it doesn’t exist, never will, and –NO ONE WANTS TO, if ever thinks of it.
–Jason Barton “Phloomxl@gmail.com”
When, in business, a manager once told me:
“Bro, if I have the most difficult problem, I assign it to the most lazy, self-obsessed person. Lazy people, being lazy, will figure out how to solve the issue with the least effort, least resistance, and greatest efficiency…not to be genius, but to finish that damned problem, so that the lazy dude can return to his/her personal, bliss-like, endeavors.
“Engineering” seems a PERFECT FIT for our University as a course of serious (though not TOO serious) of study & research!
