The volume is an encyclopedia of learning in phenomenology; it is a guide that is meant to offer a survey in depth of phenomenological learning by presenting the complete body of learning/scholarship in phenomenology. In these seven hundred some pages the authors have traced in depth specialized studies the course that the phenomenological inspiration of E. Husserl took in his followers and goes on taking. They have done this pinpointing the main assumptions of the Husserlian endeavor, tendencies and aims while marking the turnings points of their unfolding. Great attention is paid to the ways in which phenomenology has informed, enlivened, influenced the fields of knowledge whether in the humanities or in the sciences. A Glossary of terms ...