Phenomenology

Phenomenology is a philosophical method developed by Edmund Husserl that focuses on understanding conscious experience. Husserl argued that objects can only be understood as they are perceived by consciousness, not as things in themselves. Phenomenology aims to describe phenomena as they appear in consciousness rather than explain or analyze them. It involves "bracketing" external claims and assumptions to focus only on internal conscious experiences. Phenomenology has influenced fields like literary criticism by focusing on describing the essential structures of conscious experience reflected in a text rather than external contexts.