Husserl

I would stay away from most books on philosophy in libraries from my past experiences,urgh!
The net seems to be better because people tend to talk about it in plainer language and try to get it accross whereas in books that are published and put in an university library tend to be quite technical and teh ghey!!!
I find people's descriptions of the work much easier to understand that the creators work itself.

I was browsing my Stanford book of philosophy earlier and I came accross this little gem.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/
This site seems to have a good description too, http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/ (go down to Tendencies and Stages within Philosophical Phenomenology Thus Far for the different concepts)

As far as I can tell phenomenology is the the philosophical study of consciousness and is the study of our experience — how we experience. Everybody looks at and sees an object differently.We see something like it is because of psychologism.If we had been brought up in complete isolation how would we see it?Husserl wanted to step back from Psychologism.
Phenomenology studies the world as it is given to or “constituted by” consciousness. One can speak of the phenomenology of reading, of dancing, of mathematical investigation, of chess-playing, and so forth, in each case meaning an analysis or description of how that activity is experienced by the person engaging in it (for example, the first-person experience of dancing or playing chess). One can also study objects (construed widely to include not just physical objects like tables and chairs but also abstract objects like numbers and values) in terms of the way they appear to consciousness.Husserl also had this thing about 'ideal concepts/objects'(like a number for example) like plato but Husserl thought that although we could percieve these ideals we had to experience or encouter them to fully understand them for what they are.
I think Husserl wanted to destroy psychologism or at least mostly.Step back from something and look at it for itself, you know what i mean?
We are all given preconceptions of things when growing up and we see these when when we look at the object.I think he wanted to step back and look at a thing for itself and not for how we have always percieved it.

Urgh phenomenology is huge,I suggest reading the links