Description: Phenomenology focuses on the direct description of consciousness and experience, exploring how individuals perceive the world. Core ideas involve understanding phenomena as they appear in our experiences.

Representative Figures: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Recommended Books:

– Ideas by Edmund Husserl

Description: Lays the foundation for phenomenological philosophy by examining the nature of consciousness.

– Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Description: Explores the question of being and introduces the concept of Dasein.