Description
In recent years phenomenology has become a resource for reflecting on political questions. While much of this discussion has primarily focused on the ways in which phenomenology can help reformulate central concepts in political theory, the chapters in this volume ask in a methodological and systematic way how phenomenology can connect first-person experience with normative principles in political philosophy. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part I covers the phenomenology of political experience. The chapters in this section focus on a variety of experiences that we come across in political practice. The chapters in Part II address the phenomenology of political ontology by examining the constitution of the realm of the political. Finally, Part III analyzes the phenomenology of political episteme in which our political world is grounded. Political Phenomenology will be of interest to researchers working on phenomenology, Continental philosophy, and political theory.
Table of Contents
1. Three Types of Political Phenomenology
Thomas Bedorf and Steffen Herrmann
Part I. Phenomenology of Political Experiences
2. Dialectical Praxis and the Decolonial Struggle: Sartre and Fanon’s Contributions to Political Phenomenology
Robert Bernasconi
3. The Normative Force of Suffered Violence
Pascal Delhom
4. A Political Grammar of Feelings: Thinking the Political Through Sensitivity and Sentimentality
Brigitte Bargetz
5. Concernedness: For a Political Rehabilitation of an Unwelcome Affect
Emmanuel Alloa and Florian Grosser
6. The Shimmering Phenomenon of Clandestinity: Political Phenomenology Beside Appearing and Vanishing
Andreas Oberprantacher
Part II. Phenomenology of Political Ontology
7. Husserl and the Political: A Phenomenological Confrontation with Carl Schmitt and Alexandre Kojève
Bettina Bergo
8. Rethinking the Politics of Post-Truth with Hannah Arendt
Linda Zerilli
9. "Who One Is" – A Political Issue? Hannah Arendt on Personhood, Maximal Self, and Bare Life
Sophie Loidolt
10. Democracy and Terror: Toward a Phenomenology of (Dis-)Embodiment
Jacob Rogozinski
11. The Power of Public Assemblies: Democratic Politics Following Butler and Arendt
Gerhard Thonhauser
12. The Matter of the Other
Debra Bergoffen
Part III. Phenomenology of Political Episteme
13. Instituting Institutions: An Exploration of the Political Phenomenology of Stiftung
Thomas Bedorf
14. Intentionality, Representation, Recognition: Phenomenology and the Politics of A-Legality
Hans Lindahl
15. The Struggle for a Common World: From Epistemic Power to Political Action with Arendt and Fricker
Steffen Herrmann
16. Doing Gender Differently? The Embodiment of Gender Norms in between Permanence and Transformation
Maren Wehrle
17. Filling in the Blank: Art, Politics, and Phenomenology
Christian Grüny
