This seminar introduces students to phenomenology as both a philosophical framework and a method for analyzing human experience through the lens of intersubjectivity. Students will explore how consciousness, embodiment, temporality, and meaning are not only individually experienced but also socially constructed through interactions, institutions, and shared cultural contexts. The seminar is organized in two parts. The first part introduces students to major phenomenological concepts, from their emergence in Husserl’s foundational work to contemporary interpretations, including the lifeworld, being-in-the-world, intentionality, embodiment, temporality, intersubjectivity, narrative identity, and the social and emotional dimensions of experience, The second part focuses on methodology, where students engage with principles such as epoché,phenomenological reduction and lifeworld analysis, applying phenomenology to thematic areas of their choice and gaining practical experience in describing, interpreting, and analyzing lived experience. By combining conceptual foundations with applied analysis, the seminar enhances students’s interpretive skills, critical thinking, and methodological reflexivity for exploring how experiences are lived, shared and socially constituted. No prior knowledge of phenomenology is required. A detailed seminar outline with readings, will be provided at the start of the course

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