Humility, Textuality, and Method in Phenomenological Research

Abstract

Have you ever been overcome with a profound feeling of humility? Perhaps this moment was unexpected or surprising, giving itself as an insight, reverence, or awe. You feel humbled. But now it seems that this feeling itself has strangely turned into some kind of opening, a sensibility, a method even. For a text, we may consider humility as a quality, recognizing it goes beyond the pairing of author and reader. The focus of this article is to explore humility as a method for qualitative inquiry that moves the temporal moment of writing to the meaningful core of a textorium.