%0 Journal Article
%T Getting It Quite Wrong: Van Manen and Smith on Phenomenology
%A Dan Zahavi
%J Qualitative Health Research
%@ 1552-7557
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1049732318817547
%X Max van Manen and Jonathan Smith have recently had an exchange in Qualitative Health Research concerning their respective use of phenomenology. I welcome the attempt to get clearer on what phenomenology amounts to and I agree with van Manen that an overly arbitrary use of the term will lead to an erosion of the reputation of phenomenology. However, I think both of them are to blame for promoting various confusions concerning the nature of phenomenology. The aim of my article is to make some critical remarks concerning van Manen¡¯s and Smith¡¯s understanding of phenomenology and to suggest alternative resources for qualitative researchers interested in phenomenology
%K phenomenology
%K research strategies
%K methodology
%K theory development
%K research evaluation
%K qualitative
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1049732318817547