Human Science Podcasts and Publications
Itlaq Foundation is committed to human science: an approach grounded in understanding human beings through the careful exploration of lived experience, consciousness, and the relational nature of human existence. Our work draws especially on phenomenology and hermeneutics, seeking to illuminate the possibilities of both human individuation and self-transcendence.
Podcast: Phenomenology as a Way of Seeing
This series introduces phenomenology as a way of understanding how people inhabit and make sense of their worlds. We discuss key ideas in phenomenological philosophy and psychology, as well as dialogues with colleagues and practitioners applying phenomenology in research, counseling, social services, and other settings.
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How do we ask a phenomenological question?
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Description "versus" Interpretation?
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Publications
Marc Applebaum
Applebaum (2026, forthcoming). Review of Denis Džanić (2023): Transcendental Phenomenology as Human Possibility: Husserl and Fink on the Phenomenologizing Subject, in The Journal of Phenomenological Psychology.
A review of Džanić’s book tracing Husserl and Fink's dialogue on the identity of the phenomenologizing subject, contrasting Fink’s meontic account of transcendental subjectivity with Husserl’s eventual vision of the integration of transcendental and psychological subjectivity within an ethical, communal conception of human personhood.
A review of Džanić’s book tracing Husserl and Fink's dialogue on the identity of the phenomenologizing subject, contrasting Fink’s meontic account of transcendental subjectivity with Husserl’s eventual vision of the integration of transcendental and psychological subjectivity within an ethical, communal conception of human personhood.
Applebaum (2024). “A Phenomenology of Mindfulness Practice in Sufism.” In S. Ferrarello & C. Hadjioannou (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness, Routledge.
Explores Sufi dhikr as a form of mindfulness practice through Husserlian phenomenology and existential-phenomenological research, including interviews with practitioners.
Explores Sufi dhikr as a form of mindfulness practice through Husserlian phenomenology and existential-phenomenological research, including interviews with practitioners.
Applebaum (2023). Dhikr as Mindfulness: Meditative Remembrance in Sufism. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
Contrasts Sufi dhikr with Theravada Buddhist mindfulness, exploring how each tradition understands meditation, selfhood, and self-transcendence, with comparison to Abraham Maslow’s humanistic psychology.
Contrasts Sufi dhikr with Theravada Buddhist mindfulness, exploring how each tradition understands meditation, selfhood, and self-transcendence, with comparison to Abraham Maslow’s humanistic psychology.
Applebaum (2023). Saying before the said: Phenomenological reflections on Gertrud Schwing’s A Way to the Souls of the Mentally Ill. The Humanistic Psychologist.
Explores communication and therapeutic relationship as constitutive intersubjective events, drawing on Lévinas and Gertrud Schwing’s clinical work to examine how encounter with the Other participates in the formation of the self.
Explores communication and therapeutic relationship as constitutive intersubjective events, drawing on Lévinas and Gertrud Schwing’s clinical work to examine how encounter with the Other participates in the formation of the self.
Applebaum (2019) Remembrance: A Husserlian Phenomenology of Sufi Practice, Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
Draws upon Husserl and Fink's phenomenology to articulate the essential structure of Sufi dhikr as an awakening to one’s primordial ground in the Absolute, transforming the practitioner’s sense of self from egocentric identification toward transcendental self-awareness.
Draws upon Husserl and Fink's phenomenology to articulate the essential structure of Sufi dhikr as an awakening to one’s primordial ground in the Absolute, transforming the practitioner’s sense of self from egocentric identification toward transcendental self-awareness.
Applebaum (2018) The I and the We: Psychological Reflections on Husserl’s Egology in M. Englander (Ed.), Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry, Bloomsbury.
Explores how Husserlian phenomenology can illuminate social interrelatedness and the lived experience of both "I" and “we,” dialoguing with Husserl's analyses of the personal ego, transcendental ego, and primordial communalization.
Explores how Husserlian phenomenology can illuminate social interrelatedness and the lived experience of both "I" and “we,” dialoguing with Husserl's analyses of the personal ego, transcendental ego, and primordial communalization.
Applebaum (2014) Intentionality and Narrativity in Phenomenological Research, Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology.
Examines how description and interpretation can function as complementary modes of phenomenological psychological research, drawing on Husserl’s accounts of intentionality and genetic analysis and Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity.
Examines how description and interpretation can function as complementary modes of phenomenological psychological research, drawing on Husserl’s accounts of intentionality and genetic analysis and Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity.