Introduction: Phenomenology as the Inspirational Force of Our Times

Abstract

“Phenomenology” is a term that has acquired varied meaning over the course of the last century, beyond those meanings already put into circulation by Lambert and Hegel. A multiplicity of theories, concepts, ideas are held to legitimately bear the name phenomenology. Those who advance them all claim that they are in some or other fashion, more or less directly, true adherents of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Certainly the schools of thought that Husserl inspired came to powerfully influence twentieth-century learning and culture.