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In this article I aim to highlight one aspect of what it is like to address the problem of evil. The discussion aims to show that the suffering of others comes to matter, in part, because of the way in which we are with others, and they with us. Through a sustained discussion of the film 12 Years a Slave, and drawing on the idea of joint attention, I suggest that the possibility of sharing attitudes with others is central to our experience of the meaning of suffering. In dialogue with the moral philosophy of Stephen Darwall, I highlight the way in which—at least in some significant cases—being with others depends on mutual answerability. These points suggest that whilst moral critics of theodicy are right to emphasise the way that the practice of theodicy can involve a failure to recognise the seriousness of suffering, it is a mistake to think that the suffering of others is 'hermeneutically off-limits' to me: whilst we may often be concerned for others, we can also be concerned with them. This, it is claimed, is an intrinsic part of the difficulty of the problem of evil, as well as one reason for its moral significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the complexity of contemporary Christian chaplaincy within the British Army, where Christian (with other faiths and representatives of secular philosophies) serve an ostensibly secular institution. and sometimes conflicted context, especially focused on the concept of 'being with', central to the thought of the scholar and priest Samuel Wells. Outlining the history of Chaplaincy within the British Army, showing how the Department has changed to serve a changing Army, it then outlines some of the contemporary challenges. Looking at how the role is worked out within the contemporary British Army, there remains an important incarnational role for the Chaplain to 'be with' the Army and it's people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a creative dialogue between artist-filmmaker Phillip Warnell and author-philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. It explores, among other things, their film, text, and research collaborations spanning more than a decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analytic writers have studied existential anxiety or annihilation anxiety, emanating from traumatic disruptions to people's sense of going-on-being, reminders of their finitude, and facing a chaotic reality, and suggested that they can endure this anxiety by being with and living through it together with another person. The literature suggests that to be with patients who experience such anxiety, therapists need to indulge "narcissistically" in their own memories and fantasies of similar experiences, and, in parallel to the patients, enter transient regressive states. Sometimes, however, therapists are faced with a chaotic analytic reality that arouses existential anxiety in themselves, and seek to share it with their supervisors who, by experiencing parallel regressive states, can identify with their supervisees and grasp their experiences. Supervisors who consistently fail to be with their supervisees at such moments and persist in offering them new constructions of therapeutic materials might strengthen the supervisees' defensive operations and disrupt their development as therapists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to 'think with' Desmond Manderson's Danse Macabre. To celebrate the creative energies that Danse Macabre liberates, we need to work with the grain of the text; with its images and metaphors, and to follow the circle that it traces from its own beginning to its end; which is not really an end at all, but the evocation of the possibility of "rebirth", a rhythm, that is in turn linked to the capacity of art to "surprise"- to break the bad repetition of law. Celebrating Danse Macabre is 'thinking with' the text--an idea that will be connected to the weak force of ethics---an animus of Manderson's thought. The 'with' takes us to Denise Levertov's poem A Solitude-- a performance of a mode of poetic thinking that emanates from Manderson's intellectual sensorium . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Streaming media seems to have become a natural part in teachers' professional life. Streamed music, primarily distributed by the company Spotify, sounds in most music and dance classrooms, not least in Swedish schools. Hence, the concepts of digitalization and listening are accentuated within the area of music education. Within the frames of a larger border-crossing research project financed by Wallenbergstiftelsen – 'Evolving bildung in the nexus of streaming services, art and users: Spotify as a case', which aims to explore the meaning and function of streaming media as a facilitator of bildung, using Spotify as a case – this presentation takes two interviews regarding Spotify use as a starting point. One music teacher and one dance teacher, among sixteen participants, were interviewed about their use of Spotify. The aim with the specific analysis was to describe the phenomenon of bildung regionalized to relational school settings, where streamed music, teachers and students come together in intended learning situations. The interviews were stimulated by the teachers' own Spotify interfaces, and documented by the virtual communication tool Zoom. They were transcribed and analysed in a phenomenological narrative manner. The narrative is shaped as a dialogue between the two teachers, to make similarities and differences regarding relations with Spotify in the classroom setting visible. The result shows aspects of existential and essential bildung through listening taking place as being, thinking and acting with Spotify in the spirit of Heidegger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article liturgy is considered from the phenomenological standpoint. Based on the examples of the most important meetings described in the Bible, their main characteristics are revealed from the viewpoint of fullness of a person's vital world. It is substantiated that the paradigmatic way of inviting and meeting with God is the Meal, which is actually manifested in the Divine Liturgy up till now. The meeting, as the Bible describes it, is not a communicative fact, but it is a living communion with God in its secrecy and at the same time openness. It unfolds by stages as two modes of being: «being before» (premonition, standing in front of Him) and «being with» (actually, a liturgical koinonia), inseparable from one another «stages» of the communion. The Eucharistic liturgy is the Christ-centered transcendental «nowadays», the meeting of God the Logos with his people. In general, the liturgical koinonia is preceded by the Meeting, the meeting - the Call and the Coming of the invited - Christians who are cognizant and united by the common goal of Thanksgiving. The communal discourse of the meeting in the liturgy is important, because it is consonant with others. Others do not only stand before you, but witness before God for you. The meeting in the liturgy is not only an event, but it is also its experience, which precedes and is a premonition of the next meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radical constitutional scholarship could make use of a concept of solidarity to enable a new engagement with concepts of welfare and political community. Rather than a welfare state, with all its attendant problems, it is possible to link the concept of solidarity to the notion of a welfare community. A welfare community asserts the importance of common life against capitalist market relationships. Conceiving of the welfare community requires insights from continental philosophy, as well as developments of co-production and core economy thinking. Most importantly, this approach grounds welfare in a political critique of free market capitalism, rather than a theory of rights, and requires a bold assertion of a constitution as a limitation of the socially and economically destructive effects of markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper attempts to convey what it feels like to be with another person who has experienced, and continues to experience, terror. The author has worked for almost 25 years in a service she runs in Sweden based on providing alternative ‘family homes’ for children and adults (Håkansson, 2009; Mackler, 2011) most of whom have been repeatedly hospitalized. The paper tries to communicate the most fundamental requirement for working with extreme emotional states, the ability to sit with another’s pain without feeling that one has to, or can, immediately alleviate that pain and without denying how that pain relates to one’s own feelings and experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article briefly introduces Garry Prouty’s pre-therapy with people diagnosed with psychoses. It includes a short discussion of the theory of pre-therapy and illustrates the practice of pre-therapy with examples of “contact reflections” and an excerpt of dialogue. It also points to the link between pre-therapy and psychoanalytic attachment theories. It is the author’s hope that readers will find useful inspiration for their own practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presence is one of the essential components and concepts of caring in nursing practice, frequently occurs during a nurse-patient interaction. Presence is been viewed as a nursing intervention, thus emphasis should be placed on its implementation and effectiveness evaluation. This article applied the viewpoints of "intersubjectivity" and "being with" within phenomenology to address the concept of presence in the nurse-patient interaction. With the concept and definition of presence as a starting point, we further elaborated a presence model of nurse-patient interaction. Through clarification and comprehension of the connotation regarding presence in nursing implication, we proposed viable implementations of presence in nursing practice, hoping that the result could serve as a reference for nursing staffs in enhancing nursing interventions, and in turn promoting patient healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of 'being with' was an essential part of the hospice philosophy developed by Cicely Saunders, and one that she believed was a key element in the care of the dying. In Saunders' philosophy, 'being with' is a specific moment of engagement between a health professional and a patient whereby the patient has the opportunity to examine and express their thoughts and feelings relating to their imminent death. This study examined how 'being with' was implemented as a part of ordinary day-to-day practice in a hospice in Scotland. The study was based on the principles of ethnomethodology, which aims to reveal embedded and taken-for-granted rules and behaviours that determine practice. The data collection and analysis revealed that the nursing practice was constructed in such a way that 'being with', as Saunders understood it, could not be initiated either by a member of the nursing staff or by the patients. By adopting the philosophical framework of Heidegger, the study offers an understanding of how the nursing staff had developed 'being with' as provision of comfort in order to protect both themselves and the patients from engaging with painful emotions associated with facing death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is commentary on Cornejo’s Intersubjectivity as co-phenomenology: from the holism to the being-in-the-world-with-others, co-phenomenology, in which meaning is defined as a construal of phenomenological experience, it is not an individual creation, but rather an intersubjective one. In this paper the basic question is how language expresses the world and things and, consequently, what vision of the world is expressed by language and what relationship it creates with the real. Language is a set of differences between signs and meanings. It lives for and by this constant aspiration to say the inexpressible, to capture the elusive. Language tries to express the driving inner movement of the real through references and interlacing, by multiplying the relational threads of meanings. For example, the phonetic gesture performs for the speaker and his listener a certain structuring of experience, a certain modulation of existence. This is a communicative dimension in which meaning is always a process. It is the situation of co-feeling between subjects, in which understanding is achieved, as defined by Cornejo in his essay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the concepts relating to truth including potentially competing truths, the construction of truth through culture, language, and approaches, and concepts of being with patients and spirituality. It also examines how professional truth impacts patients. It states that truth is a contextual reality which emanates from social, cultural, and political values. It notes the importance of spiritual support and the being with patient concepts as a tool palliative care.

Through the analysis of Walkman use I propose a re-evaluation of the significance of the auditory in everyday experience. I argue that the role of sound has been largely ignored in the literature on media and everyday life resulting in systematic distortions of the meanings attached to much everyday behaviour. Sound as opposed to vision becomes the site of investigation of everyday life in this article. In focusing thus, I draw upon a range of neglected texts in order to provide a dialectical account of auditory and technologically mediated experience that avoids reductive and dichotomous categories of explanation. I propose a new evaluation of the relational nature of auditory experience whereby users manage their cognition, interpersonal behaviour and social space. The Walkman is perceived as a tool whereby users manage space, time and the boundaries around the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]