Thinking at the Edge: Where Theory and Practice Meet to Create Fresh Understandings

This paper focuses on the use of concretely felt experience in phenomenological methodology and theory construction. Using the example of a stepwise process of theory making called Thinking at the Edge (Gendlin, 2004), the author shows how experience functions in the creation of a new theory on the...

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Main Author: Krycka, Kevin C. 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Rhodes University 2006
In: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2006, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-10
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