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What's the difference between phenomenology and plain ole' descriptive writing?

What's the difference between phenomenology and plain ole descriptive writing?
gpt
Not a whole lot, because you certainly have to use descriptive writing skills to do phenomenology properly. That said, one can be doing descriptive writing without doing phenomenology. This is because phenomenologists describe the form of human experience *as form*, whereas descriptive writers can forego speaking of the form of human experience in favor of describing and illuminating specific things within human experience. As a quick example, we could see the latter in descriptions of a worker toiling in a field (the sweat of his brow, the ache in his back, etc), and we could see the former in descriptions of what it means to be engaged in work in general, as Heidegger loved to do, with the "readiness" of the implements the worker uses. 

Your question is actually quite a good one, and explains why phenomenologists will blend literature into many of their works. Thanks for it.