A method of intuition

Becoming, Relationality, Ethics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8065751
AutoresR Coleman (0000-0002-1390-2180, Lancaster University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume21
Fascículo4
Páginas104-123
Data de publicação2008-10-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0952695108095514
OpenAlexW2142248751
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas22

This article examines social research on the relations between (young) women's bodies and images through Bergson's method of intuition, which suggests that the only way a thing can be known is through coinciding with the uniqueness of its becoming. I suggest that in this aim, intuition is, necessarily, an intimate research method. Rather than apply Bergson's argument to this area of social research, I examine the resonances between his philosophical method and the moves within social research to attend to the performativity, creativity or inventiveness of research methods. With a focus on my own research, which explored the relations between 13 girls' bodies and images from a feminist-Deleuzian position, I argue here that the interconnected issues of becoming, uniqueness and coincidence that Bergson raises connect with concerns in social research about ontology, concepts and methods. In particular, I suggest that relationality is crucial to these connections. Drawing through the significance of relations, I argue that intimate, intuitive research is desirable because of the ethics that it opens up and enables; ethics intimate in attention to the becoming unique to the object at stake in research and in the attempt to coincide with this uniqueness

Argument (complex analysis · Creativity · Epistemology · Intuition · Performativity · Sociology · Uniqueness · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology