Polycultural Phenomenology
KnE Social Sciences January 1, 2020 E. Timoschuk 1 citation
Phenomenology, as developed by Husserl, provides a foundation for polyculturalism by breaking with speculative philosophy and emphasizing pure self-observation, similar to Eastern psychotechnics like yoga and Buddhism. These traditions all reformat cultural frameworks to enable transcendental meditation. Phenomenology overcomes the crisis in European social sciences by escaping the deadlock of speculative philosophy and positivism. Its universal value lies in creating a cross-cultural research methodology that allows systems such as Vedanta, yoga, Buddhism, and phenomenology to coexist in a single intersubjective field.