phenomenology
English meaning: Phenomenology
English Definition
(English)Phenomenology (from Greek: phainomenon = appearance) studies experience as it presents itself to consciousness, before theoretical interpretation. Husserl's method of 'bracketing' (epoché) sets aside assumptions about the external world to focus on pure experience. Phenomenology influenced existentialism, cognitive science, psychology, and literary theory.
English Definition
A philosophical method and movement founded by Edmund Husserl that studies the structures of conscious experience and the way phenomena appear in first-person experience. Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre extended phenomenological analysis.
Example
“Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment showed that perception is not just mental but deeply rooted in our bodily engagement with the world.”
In English: “Merleau-Ponty argued that our bodily experience of the world is the foundation of all knowledge.”
Synonyms
- philosophy of experience
- philosophy of consciousness
Literary Heritage
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
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