You are an experience machine, everything that has ever happened to you and everything that will ever happen to you is experience. Reflecting on your experience offers a unique insight into the nature of reality and forms the basis for the philosophical methodology of phenomenology. In this episode we explore phenomenology from its inception by Edmund Husserl in the early 20th century, to Martin Heidegger's exploration of being-in-the-world, the embodiment of phenomenology as described by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and its influence on the applied phenomenology of Iris Marion Young's work on femininity. Show notes Phenomenology - Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Edmund Husserl Martin Heidegger - Being and Time Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis - Jonathan Smith Maurice Merleau-Ponty Iris Marion Young - Throwing like a girl The Here and Now Podcast on Facebook The Here and Now Podcast on Twitter Send me an email Support the show