Unlike what has been done before me, my enterprise is both more ambitious and more modest. For its purpose (1) is to provide an overview of the phenomenological movement in its entirety, not just the Husserl part; (2) help understand the premises and causes of phenomenological "teachings" in terms of the current Anglo-American style of philosophizing; (3) explain - and, where possible, disclose or refute - the most frequent instances of misunderstanding and criticism of phenomenology