Phenomenological Reviews

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On the phenomenon of questioning

pp. 233-242

Abstract

What is a question? This is in itself a curious question. How can we begin to investigate what a question is except through questioning? While I do not want to get entangled in a paradoxical trap, the question of what a question is is important to an understanding of what really occurs in the act of asking a question. Let us modify the question as follows: What does questioning itself reveal, what is actually occurring at the time a question is being asked? This paper aims at phenomenologically and hermeneutically disclosing what questioning is and how it functions.

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Hopkins Burt C (1999) Phenomenology: japanese and american perspectives. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 233-242

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2610-8_12

Full citation:

(1999) „On the phenomenon of questioning“, In: B.C. Hopkins (ed.), Phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, 233–242.