The philosophy of phenomenology, introduced in the late 1800's by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), is a way to relate the phenomena of human experience with the consciousness of the self in society. In other words, by analyzing the self and the experiences that one has encountered in society, the subject will obtain a regained consciousness of who they are. In doing so, phenomenology digs into the roots of a culture's history and exposes it to the present culture or society. This increases wonder of one's surroundings and lets the subject learn more about themselves and their nation, thus strengthening nationalism and the pride of living. The past Enlightenment ideal of being an individual is readily apparent in phenomenology's pride of being. The philosophy thrives on the uniqueness of identity but adds a twist of universality of the self, thus updating an old ideal. In this way, each person's being or spirit is unique but is constructed from its many universal parts (experiences, historical cultures and past histories). The beauty of phenomenology is the contemporariness of it. The philosophy will forever remain young because it deals with consciousness in current society, through the precedent of its history. Thus, the change of phenomenology in the past century is not so much a change as rather a construction of further ideas in the direction of awakened realization.
             Phenomenology by definition is the knowledge and consciousness of who we are as beings. Husserl catalyzed the Phenomenological Movement in 1901 with his philosophy, which described the phenomena of the active spirit (any person in society who has experiences and sensations). Thus, to observe our real personalities and spirit, we need to step outside ourselves, turning the subjective being into an object and observe it. But Husserl "wanted to escape from the subject-object distinction" because the spirit was too complex to be treated as ...