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：This Special Edition represents the first attempt, to the best of our knowledge, to explicitly link the traditions of phenomenology and psychobiography. The decision to call for papers for this volume was based on our belief that the phenomenological tradition has much to offer psychobiographical research. Phenomenology’s emphasis on lived experience privileges individual voices and subjective experiences and is thus commensurate with the fundamental aim of all psychobiographical research, which is the simultaneously simple yet grandiose task of understanding the life of a single human being. This Special Edition sought to bring together scholarship in psychobiography that made use of the phenomenological tradition as a lens through which to view individual lives and experiences. Each of the four articles collected in this edition represents a different use of phenomenological methods within psychobiographical research and illustrates the way in which the merging of the two traditions allows for densely nuanced description that enhances the psychobiographical narratives. The diversity of the papers contained within this volume reflects the richness of current research in psychobiography, as well as the multiple ways in which phenomenological methods and philosophies can be used within psychobiographical research. In this way, this Special Edition represents (to misquote Elms, 1994) an easy alliance between the respective traditions of phenomenology and psychobiography..
