Abstract This essay marks the start of a bold reorientation philosophical vision author: where texts Christian theological tradition once served as point reference, it is now experience trauma that guides phenomenological investigation – specifically, illness, separation, death child, natural disaster, and pandemic. These experiences, which befall me without rhyme or reason, open up new field h...

JEM © The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 Vol. 205, No. 4, April 14, 2008 967-979 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/ 967 10.1084/jem.20072051 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease aff ecting the peripheral joints in which abnormalities in the synovium precipitate a destructive process that often leads to cartilage and bone erosion. The autoimmune nature of this disease has been defi ned, in part...

In the introduction to the third and last volume of his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms of 1929, entitled " Phenomenology of Knowledge, " Ernst Cassirer remarks that the meaning in which he employs the term 'phenomenology' is Hegelian rather than according to " the modern usage of the term. " 1 What sense can it make, then, to invoke Edmund Husserl's phenomenology in this context? Yet if, roughly ...