phenomenology

Noun

Meaning

A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. Edmund Husserl

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. Stephen Jay Gould

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. Marshall McLuhan

Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out. Colin Wilson

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes. Jacques Derrida

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