A Phenomenology of Limits

On the Decolonzing Reduction as a Method of Critical Phenomenology

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ID8409490
AuthorsMartina Ferrari (0000-0001-5654-7396, Villanova University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume56
Issue4
Pages279-297
Publication date2025-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071773.2025.2529799
OpenAlexW4413217267
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

In this article, I investigate the limits of a phenomenology of consciousness as generative of a radicalized phenomenological method capable of bearing its relationship with coloniality. I call this method “decolonizing reduction.” The contribution of this article is thus twofold. First, it contributes to conversations about the method of critical phenomenology, arguing that the normative goal of critique of critical phenomenology is achieved via a radicalization of the phenomenological method, not its abandonment. Second, it contributes to the development of a distinctive method for critical phenomenology capable not only of investigating historical and contingent conditions of possibility of experience, but of carrying out descriptions at the site of colonial violence. By engaging with the colonial limits of the phenomenological reduction, the decolonizing reduction disrupts the world as we know it and generates alternative conditions of experience

Epistemology · Phenomenology (philosophy) · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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