Edmund Husserl

Descriptive
Phenomenology

Interpretive
Phenomenology

Martin Heidegger
The basic difference between the two camps is that
“hermeneutic phenomenology is used to interpret
the meaning of lived experiences and communicate
the interpretation textually or symbolically, while
transcendental phenomenology is based on discovering
the objective universal essences of lived
experiences and communicating them through pure
description”
DESCRIPTION The aim of phenomenology is the
description of phenomena

REDUCTION A process that involves bracketing

or suspending the phenomena so
that the things themselves can be
returned to.
 ESSENCES The core meaning of an
individual’s experience that makes
it what it is.
INTENTIONALLY Total meaning of the object or
idea which is always more than
what is given in the perception of
a single perspective