ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 takes the hermeneutic phenomenological turn as its point of departure. Illustrated with excerpts from her PhD work, Trude’s initial onto-epistemological and methodological understandings of hermeneutic phenomenology are critically explored. This is done by following two trajectories. The first critically focuses on the orthodoxies of hermeneutic phenomenology commonly taught and disseminated within academia. The second goes ‘off piste,’ in troubling these orthodoxies in relation to each author’s self-identification as a ‘critical researcher.’ What this identity means for each of them is revealed in the - sometimes heated but fruitful - dialogical exchange that serves to clarify their respective standpoint positions.
