Affiliation:
1. Philosophy, King’s University College at Western University
Abstract
Abstract
Gerda Walther was a phenomenologist associated with the Munich and Freiburg phenomenological circles. A student of Alexander Pfänder and Edmund Husserl, she applied the phenomenological method to issues in social and abnormal psychology and parapsychology, with a particular interest in mystical and religious experiences. Her dissertation, Toward an Ontology of Social Communities, is a pioneering work in social ontology that investigates we-experiences and the feeling of inner connectedness characteristic of belonging to a community. Her Phenomenology of Mysticism aims to give a scientific analysis of mystical lived-experiences, differentiating them from other varieties of experience, such as perception, dreams, hallucinations, and so on.
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