A brief account of what is essential in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology is presented, along with summaries of components of Husserl's conception of scientific inquiry. Some sympathetic modifications by his students - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch - are outlined, including some suggested by sociologists and ethnomethodologists, Theodor Adorno and Harold Garfinkel among them. The thesis is that phenomenological investigations can be enriched by ethnomethodological investigations of the local details of worldly events witnesses in their course, as they are lived. When fully captured in their local temporality, such studies can tell us more about the phenomenologically rich topics of the production of sense and the objectivation of meaning than Husserl's constitutive phenomenology could have known.
Phenomenology; Ethnometodology; Husserl; Sur-réflexion; Real objectivity