Introduction

Andrea Altobrando

Università degli Studi di Padova

Alice Pugliese

Università degli Studi di Palermo
Università degli Studi di Palermo

pp. 1-3

in: Andrea Altobrando, Alice Pugliese (eds), On phenomenological method, Metodo 1 (1), 2013.

Abstract

In the present critical time not just politics and the general economic system show their limits, but philosophy and culture in general are confronted with radical issues concerning sense and aims of practices that, although they seem to have lost their intuitive ground in the life-world, have intrusive power in everyday-life. Starting a new publication in such context needs an open self-reflection on preconditions and purposes of the enterprise we are starting with this first issue. The original inspiration of this journal goes back to a collective research experience that took place over a number of years. Despite the different approaches and positions in the phenomenological and broadly philosophical world, the members of the editorial board share a common view of the value of philosophical work that leads back to lived-experience, the struggle of conceptual clarification. On this basis an intense exchange has taken place in which not only new ideas and questions have been raised, but first of all the necessity of new clarification of basic concepts and methods is constantly felt. These concepts and methods operate as deep presuppositions of every scientific work as well as of most of our practices and of political debates and actions.