ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
With which theorist is phenomenology associated?
A
Edmund Husserl
B
Wolfgang Iser
C
Jean-Paul Sartre
D
All of the above answers are correct.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The modern founder of phenomenology is the German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), who sought to make philosophy “a rigorous science” by returning its attention “to the things themselves” (zu den Sachen selbst).

Detailed explanation-2: -The most famous of the classical phenomenologists were Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. In these four thinkers we find different conceptions of phenomenology, different methods, and different results.

Detailed explanation-3: -The phenomenological approach is a form of qualitative enquiry that emphasizes experiential, lived aspects of a particular construct – that is, how the phenomenon is experienced at the time that it occurs, rather than what is thought about this experience or the meaning ascribed to it subsequently.

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