Abstract
This paper shows how phenomenological research can enhance our understanding of what it is to experience grief. I focus specifically on themes in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in order to develop an account that emphasizes two importantly different ways of experiencing indeterminacy. This casts light on features of grief that are disorienting and difficult to describe, while also making explicit an aspect of experience upon which the possibility of phenomenological inquiry itself depends.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 657-669 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | European Journal of Philosophy |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 17 Dec 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 27 Oct 2020 |