Kenji Hoshikawa

A Schutzian Analysis of Prayer with Perspectives from Linguistic Philosophy

Human Studies April 6, 2016 Kenji Hoshikawa, Michael Staudigl 5 citations

In this paper, we propose to analyze the phenomenon of Christian prayer by way of combining two different analytical frameworks. We start by applying Schutz's theories of "intersubjectivity," "inner time," "politheticality," and "multiple realities," and then proceed by drawing on the ideas and insights of linguistic philosophers, notably, Wittgenstein's "language-game," Austin's "speech act,"...