Liberman2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Liberman2025 |
| Author(s) | Kenneth Liberman |
| Title | Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 115–123 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-11 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 9 |
Abstract
While ethnomethodology developed independently of phenomenology, the direction of ethnomethodological investigations and its early self-confidence in its perspectives were provided by the phenomenological studies of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. These three thinkers dominated the page-long reading list for graduate seminars given by Harold Garfinkel during the early 1970s. Microsociology and phenomenology had close associations during their origin, but ethnomethodology’s scepticism about theoretically based analyses that centre the production of meaning on the deliberate activities of an individual consciousness has increased; however, Garfinkel’s remark about his reading list is advisory: “I appreciate that no one can read these substantial phenomenological texts in one term, that does not change the fact that until you have read and considered them, you will be unable to appreciate what ethnomethodology is up to”. Many key themes of ethnomethodology have roots in phenomenological ideas: sense-making, the retrospective-prospective sense of occurrence, and the substitutability of objective for occasional expressions (Husserl); congregational and intersubjective production practices (Husserl); the unique adequacy principle, organisational things, and the distinction between studies “of” and studies “about” (Heidegger); and essential vagueness, the etcetera provision, the achieved coherences of objects in the phenomenal field, and embodied understanding “inside-with” a situation (Merleau-Ponty).
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