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The Lived World: Imagination and the Development of Experience

The Lived World: Imagination and the Development of Experience 1 THE LIVED WORLD: IMAGINATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIENCE Neil Bolton As soon as we have the thing before Our eyes, and in our hearts an ear For the word, thinking prospers. Martin Heidegger As Merleau-Ponty (1962) has shown, the notion of "the lived world" (sometimes referred to as the pre-reflective or pre-objective world) is of fundamental significance for phenomenology, distinguishing it from both intellectualist and empiricist accounts of experience and behavior. I have argued elsewhere that Merleau-Ponty's critique is equally applicable to contemporary psychological perspectives, such as cognitive theory, Piaget's genetic epistemology and S-R theory (Bolton, 1978, 1979). Nevertheless, we might ask whether these insights have as yet advanced beyond the level of a critique of alternative positions. Armed with an understanding of the priority of the pre-reflective world, the phenomenolo- gist may well be able to point to shortcomings in other theoretical accounts, but does there exist at present a coherent phenomenological account of the development of experience founded upon the idea of the pre-reflective world? How, in other words, can we talk about the lived world in such a way as to coordinate it with the fundamental psychological categories basic to any description of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Brill

The Lived World: Imagination and the Development of Experience

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology , Volume 13 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1982

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Brill
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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2662
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1569-1624
DOI
10.1163/156916282X00082
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1 THE LIVED WORLD: IMAGINATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIENCE Neil Bolton As soon as we have the thing before Our eyes, and in our hearts an ear For the word, thinking prospers. Martin Heidegger As Merleau-Ponty (1962) has shown, the notion of "the lived world" (sometimes referred to as the pre-reflective or pre-objective world) is of fundamental significance for phenomenology, distinguishing it from both intellectualist and empiricist accounts of experience and behavior. I have argued elsewhere that Merleau-Ponty's critique is equally applicable to contemporary psychological perspectives, such as cognitive theory, Piaget's genetic epistemology and S-R theory (Bolton, 1978, 1979). Nevertheless, we might ask whether these insights have as yet advanced beyond the level of a critique of alternative positions. Armed with an understanding of the priority of the pre-reflective world, the phenomenolo- gist may well be able to point to shortcomings in other theoretical accounts, but does there exist at present a coherent phenomenological account of the development of experience founded upon the idea of the pre-reflective world? How, in other words, can we talk about the lived world in such a way as to coordinate it with the fundamental psychological categories basic to any description of

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Journal of Phenomenological PsychologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1982

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