Description
Winner of the 2018 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize awarded by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
This book develops a unique phenomenology of plurality by introducing Hannah Arendt’s work into current debates taking place in the phenomenological tradition. Loidolt offers a systematic treatment of plurality that unites the fields of phenomenology, political theory, social ontology, and Arendt studies to offer new perspectives on key concepts such as intersubjectivity, selfhood, personhood, sociality, community, and conceptions of the "we." Phenomenology of Plurality is an in-depth, phenomenological analysis of Arendt that represents a viable third way between the "modernist" and "postmodernist" camps in Arendt scholarship. It also introduces a number of political and ethical insights that can be drawn from a phenomenology of plurality. This book will appeal to scholars interested in the topics of plurality and intersubjectivity within phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Transforming Phenomenology: Plurality and the Political
1 The Emergence of Plurality
2 Pluralizing and Politicizing Basic Phenomenological Concepts
3 Arendt’s Phenomenological Methodology
Part II: Actualizing Plurality: The We, the Other, and the Self in Political Intersubjectivity
4 Plurality as political intersubjectivity
5 Actualizing a plural "we"
6 A political ethics of actualized plurality
Conclusion
