Perceiving the Other

Hans-Günter Heimbrock

ISBN 10: 3525570074 / ISBN 13: 9783525570074

Published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co KG, DE, 2010

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Perceiving the Other is a Norwegian/German collaboration lead by Trygve Wyller and Hans-Gënter Heimbrock. Case examples introduce a new way of approaching ethics. It points out that it is possible to show phenomenological ethics in practise. The lived experience (praxis) is as important as the professional experience. The research on the field is the dynamics between these two experiences, where the professional experience is taken from the general life experience.Perceiving the Other has three sections:1. Introduction emphasizing the ethical paradigm shift, and presenting the terms relationality, connectedness etc. The introduction clarifies past and ongoing research, and discusses how to develop research with the "new" perspectives - connectedness, phenomenology etc.2. Section two consists of five cases from Norwegian and German doctoral dissertations and thesis within professional ethics and theology. It gives five thematic sections presenting phenomenona as language, space, gender and body.3. Section three is the conclusion, introducing phronetic ethics that is driven from the relational (as source of ethics) and connectedness. The conclusion also discusses the consequences and implications of introducing these perspectives within the fields of theology, professional ethics and work among the marginalized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perceiving the Other
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co KG, DE
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3525570074
• ISBN 13: 9783525570074
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 322 grams

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Synopsis

This volume is a Norwegian/German collaboration lead by Trygve Wyller and Hans-Gunter Heimbrock. It introduces a new way of approaching ethics. The authors point out that it is possible to show phenomenological ethics in practice. The lived experience (praxis) is as important as the professional experience. What is researched here is the dynamics between these two fields of experience where the professional experience is taken from the general life experience. The book contains contributions by Jonas Bauer, Silke Leonhard, Peter Meyer, Kerstin Soderblom, Lisbeth Thoresen, Ingvil Lonning, Solveig Botnen Eide, Trygve Wyller and Hans-Gunter Heimbrock. The book is available in both English and German, primarily for use at the master's level.