BACK TO THE THINGS THEMSELVES! Doing phenomenology 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. 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.

This year’s theme: pain