Anthropologie existentiale et phénoménographie: l'homme en tant qu'il existe
Résumé
How not to lose along the research pathway the human being, who is most
often absorbed in sets and wholes, fragmented or put into brackets in favor to
other entities, like action, relation or experience ? The author then suggests
considering as the subject of existential anthropology the human being as he
exists. In this point of view, what he calls phenomenography therefore insists
on the significance of shadowing one individual at a time to observe how he
exists, that is how he continues instant after instant. This implies on the one
hand to study singularity rather than wholes and groups, the empirical unit
rather than interactions, passivity rather than the sole action ; and on the other
hand to reflect on the place of relations, the theoretical omnipresence in
anthropology of which the author criticizes, and on the complex,
always-mitigated human modes of presence.