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The Core of Experience

Subtitle of the book: Self-perception and common sense in phenomenological sociology

Author: Abdel Hernandez San Juan

The core of experience: self-perception and common sense in phenomenological sociology is a book composed by nine chapters distributed in two half’s a first half devoted to highly theoretical research and studies of phenomenology and hermeneutic in between philosophy and sociology addressed to theorize and discuss pivotal matters to be considered to the comprehension of the major issue of the relation between experience, self-perception and common sense in sociology specially when sociology arises as in my own research from phenomenological research and studies.

  To discuss and onfold it the first more theoretical half is structured among the theorization and develoments of five issues,

1- A phenomenological self-perception theory of ourselves multisensory bodies in everyday life in between free market and publicity, aesthetics and economies, 2-A phenomenological classical  theory about the self both from clasical philosophy as from sociology therefore to unveil tree levels by which the self is permeated by the social and in reverse the social by individuatión, a) individuatión and socializatión b) experience and acervo c) and self-percepción, thus seizing and unveiling in a deeper form the self phenomenology as to later grounding cultural theory among such a self-phenomenology discussed in terms of classical studies between philosophy and sociology, 3- theorizing and developing a phenomenological analysis on the relation between being and language needed for hermeneutical research. 4- theorizing and developing a phenomenological and hermeneutic theory on the Intramundane horizont world of the quotidian life, 5-developing a theory on the sobreordination in everyday life discussing the concepts of experience, acervos, pertinences, tipification and significativity or meaningfulness (instead of meaning and replacing or substituting it) in phenomenological sociology.

  The second half of the book turns to a more empirical research chapters thought which by choosing four cases studies the methodological implications of the theories discussed in the first half are demonstrated first 1- by developing the theoretical reach of my concept of non repetitive repetition to my theorization of interculturality and transculturation between the united states and méxico discussed around and about the transnational market of anthropology and tourism between the united states and mexico according to my own experience and analysis as guest theoretician and lecturer of the faculty of sociology and anthropology of the Lake forest College, illinois --my analysis of redundancies of transculturation among multietnic and interetnic learnings --while also according to my own experience of self cultural transformation identity as emigrant in Texas, second, 2- by a theoretical discusión of the reach of cultural analysis developed from urban readings on the relation between medias, urban studies and local cultural issues in Houston as city, 3-by a research theorizing the need and reach of a retheorization of intertextuality to the development of new forms of field research and fieldwork studies and 4-finally a chapter focused in the retheorization and analysis of inscription in methodology of research discussed around the urban markets of soft drinks remain collectors.

  While the reach of the first half theoretical chapters goes to many more areas of potential developments than this four discussed cases --as demonstrated in many of my books--, the chapters choiced to the second more empirical half’s focuses in discussing a variety of issues as diverse as possible so as to give an idea of the increase and enlarged ranges of issues.

  In terms of research methodology one of the original and unique as well at the same time challenging questions  –as discussed through the book—consist about how to solve the question about the fact that on the one hand we are subjects of our own everyday life experiences of common sense while at the same time we are positioned in sociology by priorizing the major play of working from everyday life environments –not only about everyday life while also but from it.

   In a few words, we are, differently to ordinary common sense purposiveness in the life world, committed not only to living it but also to create knowledge from it and on it, while positioned from our own life world as thinkers at the same time, such a dilemma of being at the same time participants from our own daily environments while also researches, stablishes the main methodological issue theorized and discussed through the book as well as inclusive to both the theory and the empirical research the book theorize and discuss.

  A fresh, alive and deep theoretical original and innovative book which first attempt and attain to renew to completely new possibilities the theory and research of phenomenological and hermeneutical studies in sociology discussed with both 1-a highly theoretical reflections on major issues to be understand on ourselves in relation with acervo, experience and self-perception, A-a phenomenological theory for self-perceiving the relation between the tangible and the intangible in our surrounding universe of market and publicity, B-discusssing a classical theory of the self as to seize its deep relation with acervo and self perception, C-discussing the complex issue of the relation between language and being as a self-perception issue evolved in the visualization of writing and its exercises, D-developing an innovative full new approach on the concept of what make a world Intramundane in life world hermeneutically and phenomenologically E-discussing concepts as majors as experience, pertinence, acervo, tipification and meanfullness as concepts of common sense self perceived from sobreordination –telling stories, memories, documentations, inscriptions, dialogues, etc 

2-Second encompassing a variety of exciting empirical cases examples of research which goes and toward the reader A-from the analysis of cultural formations between united states and Mexico B-to a cultural analysis on ourself according to a modern town as Houston, C-discussing intertextuality in field research and fieldwork among a variety of urban groups such as artisans, rockers, punks, or simply people in everyday settings intercorporals and intergestural communications, to the studies of D-urban soft drinks remains collectors.

The book encompasses an audience that includes theoretical philosophy and phenomenological research, theoretical social phenomenology, (Alfred shutz as main reference), theoretical phenomenological sociology, theoretical ethnomethodology in contemporary, modern sociology, (george helbert mead as main reference), including habermas discussion on and or around both shutz and mead, theoretical hermeneutic philosophy and hermeneutical theories, (George gadamer as main reference), and research methodology theory in social sciences specially transcultural anthropology myself, Stephen A Tyler and Quetzil Eugenio.

Contents

Chapter I- The intangible. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter II-Self and acervo. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter III- Being and Monad. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter IV-The Intramundane Horizont. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter V- Sobreordination in everyday life. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter VI-An analysis of transcultural redundancies. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter VII-The Two Dialectiques of Town: cultural analysis in urban readings. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter VIII-Rethinking intertextuality. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter IX-The Indeterminist True. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Chapter I- The intangible. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

This paper challenge the traditional ways to understand and discuss the relation between aesthetic and economy. Starting by discussing the intangible the paper objectify how through intangibility aesthetics and spirituality values meet and fusion while paradoxically as any major classic pair, the intangible is intrinsically related with its supposed to be opposite the tangible, through theorizing this pair, the paper completely renew and discuss the relation between the intangible and the tangible developing a phenomenology of both moments in between the spirit and aesthetics through empirical analysis on several forms including free market economy and publicity to unfold out how the intangible continues working in all the moments of the relation between aesthetics, values and economy to get out how current avant-garde distinguishes itself around the intangible in the process of values formation even through the relation between aesthetics and economy 

Keywords: Phenomenology of the Intangible, spirituality and aesthetic, aesthetic and economy, values formations, axiology

Chapter II-Self and acervo. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

This paper discuss the ontology of the self in the individual human being and how the self is defined  in between three levels the primary one, specialized in translating the internal and the external, interiorization and socialization, the cumulative one specialized in between Acervos and experience and the self-representational one occupy an intermedia place in between Immanence and exteriorization, self-representation, the paper theorize the self in three dimensions, the philosophical one, jornie its territories through the major classical issues on ontology and epistemology, the sociological one stablishes in between interiorization and socialization and the cultural one defined between acervo and experience to focus in discussing cultural theory through the theory of the self-focused in the relation between self and acervo.    

  The paper stablishes the I and the self as the two main opposite and complimentary poles defines the ontology and autorepresentational individual subjectivity, the I, defined by a certain invariability and the self, defined by a constant transformation given the permeability continually define the pass by of culture into individual subjectivity through which the extrinsique turn to be Intrinsique and transform the cultural level in a dimension completely reflected under the self-phenomenology. The paper focus in theorizing the deeper phenomenology of the self to late discuss cultural theory through the theorization of self-representation both at the level of the relation between language and experience, symbols and experience and at the level of socialized out there languages and symbols as well

Key Words: theory of the self, self-representations, sociology and cultural theory

Chapter III- Being and Monad. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

   This paper discusses the classical issues of the relation between being and language focusing how being and language relates through subjectivity as a matter of language in the ways of theorizing. Placing out this major classical issue Derrida discussed on the supplements of the couple in his theory on Benveniste the paper discuss how the issue of language presents to being and biseversa in different forms according to if such a form of theory is being a transcendental, empirical or hermeneutical one. 

    the paper theorize and propose how the relation between being and monad makes the rooms and vehicle the capability of hermeneutic to be a theorizing on language, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, spaces, the city, architecture, etc., from the theory of forms, affectives, flexibles, fluids, relationals, etc., to the theory of language, the phenomenologies of the inside and outsides, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. 

Keywords: language, thought and being, hermeneutical, empirical and transcendental theorizing, being and monad, hermeneutic and phenomenology, hermeneutic analysis, interpretation, theory of forms, subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Chapter IV-The Intramundane Horizont. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

    This paper proposes and discuss a theory of the Intramundane Horizont discussing the ontology of it under phenomenology and hermeneutic. Discussing the graped up phenomenological form of the Intramundane horizont around the monadic nature of the impressions of the body and of subjectivity while theorizing pertinences as the phenomenological principle addressed to give structure to the common sense world, the paper discuss how phenomenology start to be an Intramundane horizont when hermeneutic interrelates and fusion with it. 

   First discussing the epistemological differences between phenomenology and hermeneutic, to next discuss the specific form through which both interrelate and fusion, the paper continue discussing a theory of how hermeneutic texere and makes a phenomenological world Intramundane, from the succession of activities between mornings and nights toward ends to the principle of share spectations horizonts stablishing the nexts in the pragmatics of everyday life around interpretative arranges  derived from explicitations in intersubjective communications. 

Keywords: Intramundane Horizont, the ontological form of the world of life, phenomenology and hermeneutic, pertinences, structure of the common sense world, the hermeneutic form of the Intramundane, pragmatics of everyday life, share spectations horizonts, interpretative arranges, explicitations

Chapter V- Sobreordination in everyday life. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

  This paper offers and develop a theorization and discussion of five transcendental concepts experience, pertinences, acervos, tipifications and significativization constellated around the two main concepts of phenomenological sociology: Common Sense and World of Life while at the same time discuss sobreordinations in the world of everyday life such as reflexion, inscription, documentation, memory, representation and narration as forms of sobreordinations on the immediacy discussing a variety of examples and finish with examples through which the immediacy of the Intramundane horizont and sobreordinations decurse together one over the other and how experience, acervos, pertinence, tipification and significativity continues working at the sobreordinated level, 

Keywords: experience, pertinence, acervos, tipifications and significativization, common sense and world of life, sobreordinations, phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodology

Chapter VI-An analysis of transcultural redundancies. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

This chapter focus in affording the search of my concept of non repetitive repetitions to understand and discuss two similar processes of transculturation defines the formation of the self and cultural identities in the united states specially as perceived in sensibility seen from Texas while I think it apply to several regions of usa seen from the angloamerican perspective --i said Anglo because of the mother native language--, and in Mexico seen specially from the north of Mexico but equally it apply to Mexico relation between modernity and traditions, urban cosmopolitan and rurals, distinguishing a longer data one former transculturation defined the ethnological formation of national and local cultural processes on both sides and a second more recent one transculturation similar in both sides entailed with transnationalization, the chapter focus in discussing  the transcultural redundancies --non repetitive repetitions--evolved within current intercultural learning and communications within setting of tourism and transnational markets of culture and anthropology according to a transcultural anthropology practice binationally developed.

Chapter VII-The Two Dialectiques of Town: cultural analysis in urban readings. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

This chapter focus in analyzing the effects of new medias technologies in communities adaptative responses from which a new subjectivity formation arises comparing it to cultural analysis with the former age of television, the chapter revisit and propose a reconstruction from today about the old sociology of taste, the sociology of medias, of marketing and of the analysis of urban aesthetics and how it must be both replaced as well as reconsidered from the age of the internet new subjectivities formations to later discuss its effects on urban spatiality rituals and the needs to seize the new sense endowed the compliment and inclusive dialectique between homogenization -- technologies, medias, commercialization etc and heterogeneity, regional or local traditions versus such homogenization,  regional traditions and reculturization, something discussed within the chapter according to five urban readings perspectives of Houston as city considered as pattern or parameter.

Chapter VIII-Rethinking intertextuality. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

The chaper develop a very needed retheorization of the concept of intertextuality seen from the sociology of culture and spetially under field theory research and fieldwork when the exegesis of the texts of culture leads us to intertextual elucidations and readings of culture under texts clues, vestiges, metonims and layers, the chapter offer a reconstructive analysis of the concept so as to set aside what may turn intertextuality an optional concept to alternancy within research methodology and discuss a variety of examples of intertextuality in field research from non verbal communications in every day life to urban groups as artisans, rockers and punks discussing concepts as devises and triggers evolved within the exploration of art medias interfaces in urban sociology research.

Chapter IX-The Indeterminist True. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

This chapter discuss the main differences set aside and distance indeterminism and determinisms in both the theory of method as well as the presuppositions and telos of sociology and social sciences in general. Positioning myself from indeterminism the chapter discuss how the concept of inscription must be theorized as a matter of field research methodology instead of only as a matter of writing or documentation focusing and discussing a case example in the study of soft drikns urban remain collectors.

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