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Jean-Paul Sartre's engagement with  Edmund Husserl 's   phenomenology   played a pivotal role in shaping his philosophical outlook. ...

Edmund Husserl was the founder of phenomenology while Martin Heidegger was its main precursor. Both philosophers include within their phen...

Phenomenology is a philosophical movement that originated in the early 20th century and focuses on the study of consciousness and the object...

Martin Heidegger was the next big thinker of Phenomenology after Edmund Husserl. The shift from Husserl's phenomenology to Heidegger...

Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy , also known as Ideas I, is Edmund Husserl's second major ...

Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations, published in two volumes in 1900 and 1901, presents for the first time his ideas about  transce...

Edmund Husserl is the founder of what is known as "transcendental phenomenology", which was for him an attempt at a scientific ren...

Noema and Noesis are concepts in phenomenology which relate to the workings of consciousness as "intentionality" .   According to ...

In philosophical phenomenology, the verb "to constitute" or the word "constitution" is central in describing how  things...

Husserl's transcendental consciousness is what reamins after the phenomenological reduction and Epoche . This means that after doing awa...

Consciousness has been a central issue and a key concept in Phenomenology. Husserl gave several accounts of consciousness that were develope...

Husserl's thoughts on subjectivity changed over time. In Logical Investigations, Husserl refused to think of the "I" as someth...

"Lifeworld" (or Life-World, in German:  Lebenswelt )  is a concept Edmund Husserl borrowed from Wilhelm Dilthey to designate the w...

Husserl is famous for his phenomenological moto of a "return to things themselves", but what does he mean by "thing"? ...

In Husserl's phenomenology "natural attitude" means the point of view which is expressed through the "thesis of the world...

Edmund Husserl held that to study the structure of consciousness, one had to distinguish between an "act of consciousness" and a ...

In Edmund Husserl's phenomenology  Intentionality  ( Intentionalität)   means that consciousness is characterized by the fact that it is...