Since 2007, Back to the Things Themselves! (BTTTT!) has been an annual attempt to liberate ourselves from textual exegesis, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through rigorous phenomenological description. Husserl’s call to return “zu der Sachen selbst” has only been intermittently heeded by subsequent generations, the majority of whom have generally focused on contributing to and elaborating on the enormous critical apparatus issuing from the founding texts of the movement. While BTTTT! is guided by important scholarly contributions about phenomenology, its main aim is to “do phenomenology” – that is, to generate original descriptions of phenomena in the lifeworld.
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