Phenomenology of Everyday Life Author: Huang Wang Publisher: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press

-Editor's Recommendation-

While scrolling through your Moments and watching short videos, have you ever suddenly asked yourself at some point: "What's the point of this?!" Or have you ever thought that perhaps their significance lies precisely in their meaninglessness?

Have you ever been fed up with a job and tired of a city, so you wanted to change to another job and move to another city, but you were worried that no matter where you moved, you would continue to be bored?

Perhaps those who long to "live somewhere else" all day long will eventually find that all "somewhere else" are actually boring, and the source of this boredom is themselves?

This book uses phenomenological eyes to look at the excitement and boredom in our daily lives. The author tries to break the veil of the ready-made nature that we are used to with the unique reflection of phenomenology, reveal the phenomenon to readers for the "first time", and express what he sees and thinks in everyday language.

As the author said, this book was born out of a strange combination of two different motivations: it is a dialogue initiated to outsiders of philosophy and phenomenology; but what it wants to do is not "popular science", but "research work in the original sense". This book invites ordinary readers to watch "phenomenologically", and hopes that readers can eventually "phenomenology" themselves, so as to get rid of the blindness of life, take more conscious actions, and taste the fun of phenomenology.

-Content Introduction-

This book consists of three parts. The Inner Chapter: Direct Nature involves a series of classic phenomenological themes, including objects, death, time, intuition, memory, forgetfulness, self, etc. In this part, the author, based on the study of a large number of classic phenomenological texts, with the help of the eyes of predecessors and standing in the current situation, personally revisits the classic issues in the phenomenological tradition and gives them new understanding and meaning.

The topics discussed in "Outer Chapter: The Spirit of Intermediary" are more diverse and closely related to the events that you and I encounter in our secular lives as ordinary people. This part discusses topics such as the meaning of travel, reading and writing, festivals and traditions, education and brainwashing, which will arouse the interest and resonance of readers even without a phenomenological background.

"Fragments" consists of a series of spontaneous and interesting aphoristic insights, reflecting the author's phenomenological attitude towards life, which is quoted from Husserl: "Don't want big bills, but small change."

Huang Wang, PhD in Philosophy from Wuhan University, Associate Professor of the School of Marxism at Southern Medical University, whose research interests are phenomenology, hermeneutics, and contemporary French philosophy. He has published more than 10 CSSCI papers, presided over 2 National Social Science Fund projects, 1 Ministry of Education project, and published 1 monograph and 2 translations.