Phenomenology: The Quest for Meaning

Abstract

This chapter illuminates the philosophical underpinnings of phenomenology and identifies two key approaches that have used phenomenological perspectives in particular ways. The main intention of the chapter is to untangle some of the conceptual threads and coils that make up the web of phenomenology. This is done in order to present a more accessible way of understanding what has been described as “one of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century‿ (Embree & Mohanty 1997, p. 1).