𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲? Phenomenology is a school of philosophy that originated in the early 20th century with the work of Edmund Husserl Phenomenology and it was with his heir Martin Heidegger that ot came into its fullness and reoriented the course of European philosophy. The Phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger (whose respective philosophies are called Transcendental Phenomenology and Existential Phenomenology) does not seek after external objective truth—as philosophy and