Thoughtful incoherence: First encounters with the phenomenological-hermeneutical domain.

The article provides information about the experiences of two philosophers Gail Taylor and David Rehorick about phenomenology. What follows is the story of how two searchers criss-crossed paths, and came to collaborate on the question of how they might advance their understanding of the phenomenological and hermeneutical domains. Gail Taylor and David Rehorick first met as students in each other's respective courses, one taught outside an academic environment, the other taught within. In the spring of 1993, David took Gail's adult education course, a workshop that explored how poets enter their exterior and interior worlds, retrieving voice through experimental foray. Arising from their reciprocal student-teacher experiences, they recognized a shared interest in the nature of experience and in its expression as-is. They wanted to uncover the relationship between this "is" and its articulation, and search the implications of this relationship for educational enterprise. They met to explore some of the elements of this "aporia," playing with ideas that evolved from their singular and collaborated perspectives. David first encountered the phenomenological domain in 1971; Gail became aware of this orientation in 1993. The article also offers a brief account of their initial experiences.