The enigma of subjectivity

How might phenomenology help action researchers negotiate the relationship between ‘self’, ‘other’ and ‘truth’

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6134328
AutoresDonna Ladkin (0000-0002-2369-0812, University of Exeter, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas108-126
Data de publicação2005-02-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAction Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1476750305049968
OpenAlexW2171483665
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas6

This article explores the issue of how action researchers might fully account for their subjectivity while simultaneously seeking to more fully understand ‘the other’ as they engage in inquiry processes. Ideas from the 20th-century philosophical tradition of phenomenology, including that of the ‘Lifeworld’, ‘presence and readiness-to-hand’, ‘bracketing’, and ‘objectivity for subjectivity’ are considered for the insights they bring to this paradox. The article considers the nature of truth generated through epistemologies based in subjectivity, and examines the role objectivity plays in establishing valid claims to truth. It concludes that subjectivity and objectivity are necessarily intertwined in the creation of valid truths with the consequence of this being the interdependence of meaning with truth as well

Bracketing (phenomenology · Epistemology · Lifeworld · Objectivity (philosophy · Phenomenology (philosophy · Sociology · Subjectivity · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism