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(1993) Japanese and Western phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer.
On the transcendental or the phenomenological reduction(epoché)
from a sociological perspective
Yoshikuni Yatani
pp. 357-379
After a brief retrospective on the attitudes of phenomenological sociologists toward "the Transcendental," the author examines the problem of intersubjectivity in the light of Kinesthesis theory. His contemplations on the structure of definitions and the endless backward retracing reflection clarify that there is no absolute bottom or instance of reduction (epoché). For sociologists to handle multiple social and cultural realities experienced by human beings, there must be multidimensional epochés according to their own ways of experiencing. Examples are given from Schuzean Theory of Multiple Reality, Ichikawa's Theory of Mi (body), Sensitivity Training, Yamagishikai's Special Training Meeting, and Zen Satori experience.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8218-6_24
Full citation:
Yatani, Y. (1993)., On the transcendental or the phenomenological reduction(epoché): from a sociological perspective, in P. Blosser, E. Shimomissé, L. Embree & H. Kojima (eds.), Japanese and Western phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 357-379.
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