Phenomenology & Practice is a refereed, human science journal dedicated to the study of the lived experience of a broad range of human practices.

David Seamon: Body-Subject, Time-Space Routines, and Place Ballets

What happens when subjects are deprived of intersubjective contact? This paper looks closely at the phenomenology and psychology of one example of that deprivation: solitary confinement. It also puts the phenomenology and psychology of solitary confinement touse in the legal context. Not only is there no consensus on whether solitary confinement is a “cruel and unusual punishment,” there is no consensus on the definition of the term “cruel” in the use of that legal phrase. I argue that we can find a moral consensus on the meaning of “cruelty” by looking specifically at the phenomenology and psychology of solitary confinement.

Shaun Gallagher: The cruel and unusual phenomenology of solitary confinement