
"I think the book is a fine job, coming ′′up close′′ to issues that are often avoided or left tacit, and as a consequence have become terra incognita to many qualitative researchers. More precisely, they do not even know that they do not know."

Steiner Kvale examines the role of the interview in the research process, and then considers some of the key philosophical issues relating to interviewing, such as the interview as conversation, hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethics and postmodernism.

"I think the book is a fine job, coming ′′up close′′ to issues that are often avoided or left tacit, and as a consequence have become terra incognita to many qualitative researchers. More precisely, they do not even know that they do not know."

Steiner Kvale examines the role of the interview in the research process, and then considers some of the key philosophical issues relating to interviewing, such as the interview as conversation, hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethics and postmodernism.