'To Catch at and Let Go': David Bakhurst, Phenomenology and Post-Phenomenology

Autor/in	Williams, Emma Louise
Titel	'To Catch at and Let Go': David Bakhurst, Phenomenology and Post-Phenomenology
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 52 (2018) 1, S.87-104 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12268
Schlagwörter	Phenomenology; Figurative Language; Educational Philosophy; Criticism; Concept Formation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Kritik; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung
Abstract	This paper examines David Bakhurst's attempt to provide a picture of 'the kinds of beings we are' that is 'more realistic' than rationalism. I argue that there is much that is rich and compelling in Bakhurst's account. Yet I also question whether there are ways in which it could be taken further. I introduce the discussion by exploring Bakhurst's engagement with phenomenology and, more specifically, Hubert Dreyfus--who enters Bakhurst's horizon on account of his inheritance of the philosophy of John McDowell. Whilst I recognise that Bakhurst's encounter with Dreyfus demonstrates his achievements--over rationalism and over Dreyfus--I also suggest that it opens up certain questions that remain to be asked of his position on account of its conceptualism. These questions originate, not from a Dreyfusian phenomenological perspective, but from the post-phenomenological perspective of Jacques Derrida. Through appealing to key Derridean tropes, I aim to show why the conceptual idiom Bakhurst retains may hold us back from understanding the open nature of human thought. I end by considering what therefore needs to come--and what needs to be let go--in order to best do justice to the 'kinds of beings we are.' (As Provided).
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