Community from the Perspective of Life

Ruud Welten

My question is whether a phenomenology of community is possible. Phenomenologystarts from experience, in the Husserlian sense of Erlebnis. Now, can acommunity be experienced, and not empirically but rather phenomenologicallyunderstood? What is a community from the viewpoint of experience? In this text,I will respond to, and elaborate on, this question. More specifically, I will attemptto understand community from the perspective of life by drawing on the work ofMichel Henry.