Phenomenology is a philosophical movement that seeks to describe the structures of experience, particularly consciousness, the imagination, relations with other persons, and the situatedness of the human subject in society and history. It is the study of objectivity and reality as subjectively lived and experienced). Phenomenology studies conscious experience as experienced from the subjective or first-person point of view. It is a descriptive discipline that is undertaken in a way that is largely independent of scientific, including causal, explanations and accounts of the nature of experience.
Phenomenology is distinct from but related to other key disciplines in philosophy, such as ontology, epistemology, logic, and ethics. It has been practiced in various guises for centuries, but it came into its own in the early 20th century in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others. The modern founder of phenomenology is the German philosopher Edmund Husserl, who sought to make philosophy "a rigorous science" by returning its attention "to the things themselves").
Phenomenology aims to arrive at an objective understanding of the world via the discovery of universal logical structures in human subjective experience). It is interested in the subjectivity of the observer but need not be confined to the level of the individual. Phenomenologists are interested in the way we come to share similar understanding of the world and the way we construct a sphere of intersubjectivity, an implicit agreement about how the world looks. Phenomenology is further concerned with our distorted understanding of the world and aims for fresh, complex, rich description of experience.
In summary, phenomenology is a philosophical movement that studies the structures of experience, particularly consciousness, from the subjective or first-person point of view. It is a descriptive discipline that aims to arrive at an objective understanding of the world via the discovery of universal logical structures in human subjective experience. Phenomenology is interested in the subjectivity of the observer, the way we come to share similar understanding of the world, and our distorted understanding of the world.
