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phenomenology, literally ‘the science of phenomena’. The term is now used mainly of the philosophical doctrines of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) and his school. According to Husserl, phenomenology is a descriptive science concerned with the discovery and analysis of essences and essential meanings. It professes to exclude all metaphysical questions, but much in Husserl's first elaboration of the science tended towards a
Platonic realism. These Platonist elements were developed by his disciples and used for the defence of a Christian metaphysic of an Augustinian (non-Thomistic) type. Husserl himself in his later writings embraced a form of Subjective Idealism.
Phenomenology was the most influential movement in German philosophy in the period 1910–33. It fell into disrepute under the Nazis but was revived in a modified form in France and in RC circles influenced both the Jesuit philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904–84) and Pope
John Paul II. It has also enjoyed renewed favour in America. See also
EXISTENTIALISM.
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Naturalizing phenomenology
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...these same well-worn ruts when phenomenology was to have laid their tired...days of Husserl and Scheler phenomenology was seen as the antidote to...realism debate, classical phenomenology finds itself on the defensive...
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Introduction to Phenomenology.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...SOKOLOWSKI, Robert. Introduction to Phenomenology. Cambridge: Cambridge University...and accessible new book introduces phenomenology not as a historical movement, but...discusses central topics in Husserlian phenomenology, but without quoting Husserl and for...
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Sexual difference, phenomenology, and alterity
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...of an intersection of feminism and phenomenology. Despite this precedent, however...dialogue or alliance between feminism and phenomenology has not, by and large, developed...perhaps not so surprisingly, from phenomenology. The reasons for this are relatively...
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HEGEL'S IDEA OF A `PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT'.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; HEGEL'S IDEA OF A `PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT'. By MICHAEL N. FORSTER...tasks and strategies of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. As the title indicates...the aims and structure of the Phenomenology as a whole than to reconstruct...
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Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology After Husserl.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Anthony J. Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl. Evanston: Northwestern...paying special attention to Husserl's phenomenology in his late works. Steinbock demonstrates...condition for Husserl's next finding in phenomenology. The work concludes with an interpretation...
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Mohanty's logic of phenomenology
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...m not going to advocate reducing phenomenology to logic, any more than I would advocate reducing phenomenology to neuroscience or to critical theory...that the roots of transcendental phenomenology are entwined with roots of philosophical...
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Phenomenology and the "theological turn": the French debate. (Choices for churches).(Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn": The French...University of Leuven, home of the archives of phenomenology's founder Edmund Husserl, I was dazzled by such courses as "Phenomenology of Mysticism"--on Teresa of Avila...
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Life. Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...TYMIENIECKA, Anna-Teresa, ed. Life. Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy...Institute's] fifth International Phenomenology Congress held in Paris, October 6th...theme of which was the editor's own "phenomenology of life as a scientific, integrated...
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INSPIRATION AND EXPIRATION: YOGA PRACTICE THROUGH MERLEAU-PONTY'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE BODY.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...that is influenced by the existential phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. My approach...comparisons have been made between yoga and phenomenology, these studies have taken a different...offer another perspective on the yoga-phenomenology comparison that is less idealistic...
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Radical phenomenology, ontology, and international political theory.
Magazine article from: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...as a "phenomenological method." Phenomenology's demand that one attend to "the...particular, I examine the strand of phenomenology pioneered by Martin Heidegger, who...exposition of Heidegger's reformulation of phenomenology, the article subsequently juxtaposes...
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Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
PHENOMENOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS The polysemous term "phenomenology" has been employed in philosophy since the late...perception and from history, Hegel used the word in his Phenomenology of Mind (1931) to evoke the stages (consciousness...
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Phenomenology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
PHENOMENOLOGY. Phenomenology is the study of experience, how things appear to us. The word...the term in Ph ä nomenologie des Geistes (1807; The Phenomenology of Spirit ), suggesting that all knowledge was a matter of appearance...
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phenomenology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
phenomenology, phenomenological sociology Phenomenology is a philosophical method of inquiry developed by the...bracketing or phenomenological reduction. On the face of it phenomenology does not seem to offer much inspiration to sociology...
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Edmund Husserl
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1938) is considered the father of phenomenology, one of the most important trends...Husserl's first preparatory studies in phenomenology were published as The Logical Investigations...from this period include The Idea of Phenomenology, Philosophy as a Rigorous Science...
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Edith Stein
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...writings, Stein attempted to reconcile phenomenology with her Catholic beliefs in works...prominent supporter of his theories on phenomenology. Born into a Jewish family, Stein...founder of the school of thought known as phenomenology, an examination of the development...
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