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Phenomenology

A philosophical method, generally associated with the Moravian-born German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and his followers, which emphasizes the analysis of introspective experience of phenomena and a “bracketing” of assumptions about the relationship of experience to any external cause. The most prominent Czechoslovak phenomenologist was Jan Patočka.


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