Reassembling Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Post- and Arts-Based Possibilities in the Ninth Moment

• In Event: Roundtable Session 40
  In Roundtable Session: Emergent Qualitative Methodological Perspectives

Abstract

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to explore how contemporary hermeneutic and phenomenological ideas are being taken up, grafted, and transformed in exciting ways—particularly in relation to post and arts-based theories and methodologies.

Drawing on some of our individual and co-authored theorizing, we have come together here, now, in what Denzin & Lincoln anticipated as the 9th moment in qualitative inquiry, to take inventory of what hermeneutics and phenomenology might offer qualitative researchers. Although we do not spend time historicizing hermeneutics and phenomenology, we do harness some of these traditions’ early commitments in order to make our case for how hermeneutics and phenomenology are highly relevant and useful ontologies and methodologies today.

Authors

• Mark D. Vagle, University of Minnesota

• Melissa Freeman, University of Georgia

• Brooke Anne Hofsess, Appalachian State University