 The beginnings of hermeneutic phenomenology stem from a German researcher and student of Husserl, Martin Heidegger.Both researchers attempted to pull out the lived experiences of others through philosophical concepts, but Heidegger’s main difference from Husserl was his belief that consciousness was not separate from the world but a formation of who we are as living individuals.Hermeneutic phenomenology stresses that every event or encounter involves some type of interpretation from an individual’s background, and that we cannot separate this from an individual’s development through life.Ihde also focuses on hermeneutic phenomenology within his early work, and draws connections between Husserl and French philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s work in the field.Ricoeur focuses on the importance of symbols and linguistics within hermeneutic phenomenology.Overall, hermeneutic phenomenological research focuses on historical meanings and experiences, and their developmental and social effects on individuals.Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo and Spanish philosopher Santiago Zabala in their book "Hermeneutic Communism", when discussing contemporary capitalist regimes, stated that, "A politics of descriptions does not impose power in order to dominate as a philosophy; rather, it is functional for the continued existence of a society of dominion, which pursues truth in the form of imposition (violence), conservation (realism), and triumph (history).