Pure Thoughts on Public Diplomacy in Terms of Phenomenology or Phenomenology

"I am in a public park. Not far away I see a lawn and chairs along the lawn. A person walks past the chairs. I see this person, grasping him as an object and a person at the same time. What does this mean? This object is a What do I mean when I say you're human?"

(J.P.Sartre, Das Sein und das Nichts. Hamburg, 2000, p. 459)

Phenomenology or phenomenology (Ottoman: zahiriye) is an important philosophical movement of the 20th century, founded by Edmund Husserl. It is known that Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault were also influenced by this movement. Husserl seeks the basis of all everyday, scientific and philosophical knowledge in the consistent renunciation of all preconceived notions. It attempts to describe the structures of experience without resorting to theories, derivations, or presuppositions of other disciplines, such as the natural sciences. Husserl's starting point is the ideal of a radically unprejudiced cognition, completely detached from mere mystery. This cognition must be achieved methodically in order to be scientifically understandable and objective. The claim to objectivity must always result in a distance from the relevant experiential situation, which expresses itself as a lack of closeness to the subject. But without the possibility of experiencing something "alive" or "incarnate", it is unknown to me. Thus, “by everything that I may encounter in my experience, my living, or my thoughts, I refer to those situations in which what is experienced, lived, thought originally—Husserl says 'originally'—appears at the periphery of my experience, my life, my thought, or can appear in it in an original way.

The main concern of phenomenology is the clarification of things through description of themselves. However, what 'the things themselves' are actually only emerges in the processes of self-disclosure of the subjective living being. This subjectivity arises from consciousness and becomes the object of research and study of phenomenology. The phenomenon is not an isolated object, but stands in a referential context. This makes prior knowledge, or the elicitation of prior knowledge and its separation from actual fact, an important component of phenomenological analysis. Thus the objects themselves are less than what science teaches and more than what sensory impressions convey, and function only as triggers or accompaniments of a complex meaning. To penetrate pure phenomena, a special method of access is needed: this is called the "phenomenological method of reduction".

In the light of these views, the question of how reality should be depicted in terms of communication and interaction between subjects comes to mind. What is the contribution of phenomenological reduction to image formation? How should Husserl's phenomenology explain what is represented and how in public diplomacy activities? What is the role of imitation (mimesis) in this?