Expliquer, comprendre et vivre la maladie

The distinction between explanation and understanding is familiar to philosophers trained in hermeneutics, where the desire is often for a harmonious articulation of the two terms : «to explain more fully in order to understand better. » But does that cover all that can be said ? Sickness, or at least the way sickness is lived by the patient, proves the opposite : sickness implies a lack of understanding greater than our customary dialectics of understanding can overcome. If a phenomenology of sickness were possible, it would have to be a phenomenology without hermeneutics. That said, a genuinely critical hermeneutics might ultimately be drawn from a phenomenology of sickness

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