出版社：s. Editorial by Dr Robert Schweitzer The first edition of a new electronic journal devoted to phenomenology raises two questions: why phenomenology and why the emphasis upon ..
摘要：While in the process of preparing the current edition of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology for release, my beautiful and beloved mother, Marjorie Stones – who, just eighteen months earlier, on her 90th birthday had been awarded lifelong membership of the Seniors Exercise Club she continued to attend regularly – died in her 92nd year just before dawn on a Friday: a public holiday in South Africa, known as Freedom Day since 1994, the formal end of the Apartheid regime. By quite uncanny coincidence, her birthday had since 1994 fallen on yet another public holiday, aptly named Heritage Day: a holiday designed to celebrate the cultural diversity of a country with 11 official languages in addition to sign language, not to mention the languages of the vast number of immigrant groups from Europe and the East in addition to multilingual refugees from Central Africa. Despite more than 70 years in Africa, my mother’s own tongue remained Yorkshire English in accent, lilt and turn of phrase. Indeed, as Heidegger so poignantly put it, “Language is the house of being. In its home [one] dwells” (1947/1993, p. 217).
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