Associations to the word «Phenomenology»

Wiktionary

PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

Dictionary definition

PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. A philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope