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These definitions closely reflect the traditional starting point for phenomenology. Husserl, considered the founder of the phenomenological movement, would certainly have accepted these characterizations. He focused on consciousness, and thought of phenomenology as a kind of descriptive enterprise that would specify the structures that characterize consciousness and the world as we experience it. The first-person point of view means that the phenomenologist, the investigator of consciousness, studies his or her own experience from the point of view of living through that experience. This sounds a bit like introspection, but as we'll see, phenomenology should not be equated with introspectionist psychology.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137283801_2

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