I was recently reminded of the concept of Phenomenology as I was reading ‘The Spell of the Sensuous‘ by David Abram. The book explores the relationship between human beings and the natural world, focusing on how language and perception shape our experience of reality. Reading his interpretations and his presentations of Edmund Husserl’s original concept made me feel giddy in a way that I wasn’t expecting. I think its because it resonated with ideas deep inside of me that I had forgotten about. I wrote my dissertation nearly ten years ago essentially about how malleable our perception of time is, or in other words the shape of our experience of reality. I remember that around the time I wrote it there were several people I spoke to who kept mentioning Phenomenology, but I never really understood it, it felt very aloof and abstract. Yet when I came across it in this book it felt like reaching deep inside of myself and turning the key to open a door to another time, only now the edges of this time are clearer, brighter. Edmund Husserl said that phenomenology is the science of experience. “
The science of experience
The science of experience
The science of experience
I was recently reminded of the concept of Phenomenology as I was reading ‘The Spell of the Sensuous‘ by David Abram. The book explores the relationship between human beings and the natural world, focusing on how language and perception shape our experience of reality. Reading his interpretations and his presentations of Edmund Husserl’s original concept made me feel giddy in a way that I wasn’t expecting. I think its because it resonated with ideas deep inside of me that I had forgotten about. I wrote my dissertation nearly ten years ago essentially about how malleable our perception of time is, or in other words the shape of our experience of reality. I remember that around the time I wrote it there were several people I spoke to who kept mentioning Phenomenology, but I never really understood it, it felt very aloof and abstract. Yet when I came across it in this book it felt like reaching deep inside of myself and turning the key to open a door to another time, only now the edges of this time are clearer, brighter. Edmund Husserl said that phenomenology is the science of experience. “