Henri Bortoft’s Lecture on Goethean Science
As I am sure the vast majority of you will know, Henri Bortoft was one of my teachers at Schumacher College. Henri was a physicist who studied the problem of […]
Tag Archives: phenomenology
Book Review: First Steps to Seeing by Emma Kidd
If I were only to say that I have been looking forward to reading First Steps to Seeing: A Path to Living Attentively you may not quite realise how much. […]
The Ultimate Gamification Project – Adventures of Ideas
Games designers are an inquisitive bunch, playful, problem solvers, envisioners of worlds and characters and sets, designers of experiences, dreamers, they are creators of universes who are not afraid themselves […]
An Instance Worth a Thousand Bearing All Within Itself
In a recent article I asked the question “What is a Phenomenon?” In asking this question, I did so via a look at the ways in which Goethe and Newton […]
Software design, phenomenology, imagination and the evolution of consciousness
It’s interesting how things happen. Last week I discovered a great presentation by Brian Clark on Transmedia, Art and Phenomenology, and now this week I find an excellent one by […]
Exploring Gadamer’s Truth and Method: The History of Hermeneutics
This is the third in my series of articles on Gadamer’s Truth and Method, one of the most important works on Hermeneutics ever written. In parts one and two which […]
The Value of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
I thought I would write a short blog which is just some free flowing thoughts about why I have been writing so much recently about phenomenology and hermeneutics. I did […]
Guest Blog: Jan Höglund – Seeing Life in Work: Reflections on Goethe’s Way of Seeing as applied to our working lives
Inspired by Simon Robinson I have recently read Henri Bortoft’s two books “The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way of Science” and “Taking Appearance Seriously: The Dynamic Way of Seeing in […]
An Introduction to Henri Bortoft’s ‘Taking Appearance Seriously’
Having realised that the first chapter of Henri Bortoft’s new work Taking Appearance Seriously – The Dynamic Way of Seeing in Goethe and European Thought is available to read on […]
The Phenomenology of Game Design
In the last few weeks I read David Cerbone’s excellent Understanding Phenomenology and then went straight into Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun. I am currently working my way through […]
