WHAT DOES APOPHATIC ACTIVISM RESEARCH LOOK LIKE? LEARNING TO CONSIDER THE DELICATE ISSUES OF SILENCE AND SURPRISE IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

КАК ВЫГЛЯДИТ АПОФАТИЧЕСКОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ АКТИВНОСТИ? УЧИМСЯ РАССМАТРИВАТЬ ДЕЛИКАТНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ ТИШИНЫ И УДИВЛЕНИЯ В ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ПРАКТИКЕ

Hansen, Finn Thorbjørn (Хансен, Финн Торбьёрн) ()
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Hansen, Finn Thorbjørn (Хансен, Финн Торбьёрн): University of Aalborg

Sotsium i vlast / Society and power, 2023, 52-65

Abstract: Inspired by an ‘apophatic turn’ in theology, philosophy and art, and with insights from existential phenomenology, the article encourages us to step back as actors in order to let life or the phenomenon itself act upon us. This kind of apophatic thinking is not so far away from the thinking of the Norwegian philosopher Olav Eikeland when he describes “Insider and Praxis Action Research”. And yet, the apophatic potentials in his way of understanding action research are here elaborated by pointing to three dimensions: the Knowledge, Being and Mystery dimensions in a praxis, and to the four ways of seeing praxis from within both a “gnoseology” and an “agnoselogy”. The latter being led by a deep sense of wonder followed by what Daoist’s call Wu Wei or “effortless actions”.

Keywords: Praxis Action Research; apophatic philosophy; existential phenomenology; contemplative wonder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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