23 Wikipedia Articles - Phenomenology

Phenomenology 23 Wikipedia Articles PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:33:18 UTC Contents Articles Phenomenology (philosophy) 1 Edmund Husserl 12 Phenomenological sociology 31 Phenomenology (psychology) 33 Intersubjectivity 35 Alfred Schütz 38 Lifeworld 44 Ethnomethodology 47 Harold Garfinkel 58 Conversation analysis 65 Noema 70 Nous 72 Intersubjective verifiability 93 Existential phenomenology 95 Martin Heidegger 96 Being and Time 121 Adolf Reinach 127 Alexander Pfänder 130 Max Scheler 131 Roman Ingarden 141 Nicolai Hartmann 144 Dietrich von Hildebrand 149 Munich phenomenology 152 Phenomenology of essences 153 References Article Sources and Contributors 154 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 156 Article Licenses License 157 Phenomenology (philosophy) Phenomenology (philosophy) Phenomenology (from Greek: phainómenon "that which appears"; and lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of subjective experience and consciousness. As a philosophical movement it was founded in the early years of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl and was later expanded upon by a circle of his followers at the universities of Göttingen and Munich in Germany. It then spread to France, the United States, and elsewhere, often in contexts far removed from Husserl's early work.[] Phenomenology, in Husserl's conception, is primarily concerned with the systematic reflection on and study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear in acts of consciousness. This phenomenological ontology can be clearly differentiated from the Cartesian method of analysis which sees the world as objects, sets of objects, and objects acting and reacting upon one another. Husserl's conception of phenomenology has been criticized and developed not only by himself but also by students such as Edith Stein, by existentialists, such as Max Scheler, Nicolai Hartmann, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and by other philosophers, such as Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Lévinas, and sociologists Alfred Schütz and Eric Voegelin. Overview Stephen Hicks writes that to understand phenomenology, one must identify its roots in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804).[1] In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant distinguished between "phenomena" (objects as interpreted by human sensibility and understanding), and "noumena" (objects as things-in-themselves, which humans cannot directly experience). According to Hicks, 19th-century Kantianism operated in two broad camps: • structural linguistics and • phenomenology. Hicks writes, "In effect, the Structuralists were seeking subjective noumenal categories, and the Phenomenologists were content with describing the phenomena without asking wh