Phenomenology

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c. since 1900 · Europe · origin: Halle

"Back to the things themselves": describing experience as it is given to consciousness

Key ideas

Consciousness is always of something (intentionality)
"Bracketing" ready-made theories and assumptions
The lifeworld: experience before science
Heidegger: the question of the meaning of being

Key thinkers

Edmund Husserl (founder) — German philosopher, founder of phenomenology, 1859–1938
Martin Heidegger — German philosopher, 1889–1976
Jean-Paul Sartre — French philosopher and writer, 1905–1980

Grew out of

German idealism c. 1781 – 1850 · Europe

What grew out of it

Postmodern philosophy c. since 1967 · Europe

Meanwhile elsewhere

Confucianism Asia
Buddhist philosophy Asia
Taoism Asia
Nyaya Asia
Madhyamaka Asia
Yogachara Asia
Chan and Zen Asia
Advaita Vedanta Asia
Kalam Middle East
Neo-Confucianism Asia
Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
Pragmatism Americas
Russian cosmism Eastern Europe & Russia
Kyoto School Asia
Négritude Africa

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