Full Idea
Phenomenology (as in the later Husserl) is for me a way of assembling reminders which clarify the social world in which we exist; it is a technique of redescription.
Gist of Idea
Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world
Source
Simon Critchley (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.198)
Book Reference
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.198
A Reaction
I'm not sure if I can identify with this as a target for philosophy, but it is interesting and sound worthy of effort. Critchley offers this as the best strand in 'continental' philosophy, rather than the big explanatory ideas.