"Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with conceptual questions about knowledge and ontology. However, in recent years the rise of interest and research in applied phenomenology has seen the study of political phenomenology move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally. The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology is the first major collection on this important topic. Comprising 35 chapters by an international team of expert contributors, the Handbook is organised into six clear parts, each with its own Introduction by the editors: Founders of Phenomenology Existentialist Phenomenology Phenomenology of the Social and Political World Phenomenology of Alterity Phenomenology in Debate Contemporary Developments. Full attention isgiven to central figures in the phenomenological movement, including Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas as well as those whose contribution to political phenomenology is more distinctive, such as Arendt, De Beauvoir and Fanon. Also included are chapters on gender, race and intersectionality, disability, and technology. Ideal for those studying phenomenology, continental philosophy and political theory, The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology bridges an important gap between amajor philosophical movement and contemporary political issues and concepts"--
The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology is the first major collection on this important topic. Ideal for those studying phenomenology, continental philosophy and political theory, it bridges an important gap between a major philosophical movement and contemporary political issues and concepts.
Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with conceptual questions about knowledge and ontology. However, in recent years, the rise of interest and research in applied phenomenology has seen the study of political phenomenology move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally.
The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology is the first major collection on this important topic. Comprising 35 chapters by an international team of expert contributors, the handbook is organized into six clear parts, each with its own introduction by the editors:
- Founders of Phenomenology
- Existentialist Phenomenology
- Phenomenology of the Social and Political World
- Phenomenology of Alterity
- Phenomenology in Debate
- Contemporary Developments.
Full attention is given to central figures in the phenomenological movement, including Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, as well as those whose contribution to political phenomenology is more distinctive, such as Arendt, De Beauvoir, and Fanon. Also included are chapters on gender, race and intersectionality, disability, and technology.
Ideal for those studying phenomenology, continental philosophy, and political theory, The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology bridges an important gap between a major philosophical movement and contemporary political issues and concepts.
Introducing Political Phenomenology Gerhard Thonhauser, Sophie Loidolt,
and Steffen Herrmann Part I: Founders of Phenomenology Introduction to Part
I: Plural Beginnings, Ambivalent Heritage Sophie Loidolt
1. Edmund Husserl:
Idealistic Politics and Communal Spirit Sophie Loidolt and Dan Zahavi
2. Max
Scheler: The Politics of Ressentiment Zachary Davis
3. Martin Heidegger:
Destiny, Founding, and Being Richard Polt
4. Context: Community, State, and
Law in Times of Crisis Michael Gubser Part II: Existentialist Phenomenology
Introduction to Part II: Politicizing Phenomenology in the Struggle With
Colonialism, National Socialism, and Stalinism Gerhard Thonhauser
5.
Jean-Paul Sartre: On the Many Senses of the Political in His Writings Nicolas
de Warren and William Remley
6. Simone de Beauvoir: Encroachment, Agency,
Embodiment Sara Heinämaa
7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Contingency, Conflict, and
Coexistence Martin Oppelt
8. Trn c Tho. Practicing Phenomenology Through
Anticolonialism, Dialectical Materialism, and Socialism Jérôme Melançon
9.
Frantz Fanon: Anticolonial Phenomenology, Refusal, and the Question of Method
Alia Al-Saji
10. Context: From Existential Marxism to Post-Marxism Gerhard
Thonhauser Part III: Phenomenology of the Social and Political World
Introduction to Part III: Phenomenology of the Social and Political World
Nils Baratella
11. Alfred Schütz: Imposed Political Relevances and the
Subjective Meaning of the Actor Michael D. Barber
12. Günther Anders:
Technology, Antiquatedness, and Apocalypse Babette Babich
13. Hannah Arendt:
Plurality, Worldliness, and Action: Inverting the Image of Totalitarianism
Sophie Loidolt
14. Jan Patoka: Heresies, History, and the Care for the Soul
in Its Political Aspects James Dodd
15. Context: Between Individualism and
Totalitarianism Nils Baratella Part IV: Phenomenology of Alterity
Introduction to Part IV: From the Primacy of the Other to the Politics of
Alterity Steffen Herrmann
16. Emmanuel Levinas: The Politics of Alterity
Steffen Herrmann
17. Paul Ricur: The Political Through the Lens of Oneself
as Another Dries Deweer
18. Luce Irigaray: The Politics of Sexual Difference
as Anontological Difference Anne van Leeuwen
19. Jacques Derrida:
Deconstruction: Through Phenomenology to the Political Joseph Cohen
20.
Bernhard Waldenfels: Responsive Phenomenology of the Political Thomas Bedorf
Translation by Felix Schneider
21. Context: Philosophies of Dialogue and
Psychoanalytic Thought: The Impossibility of Thinking I Without the Other
Tina Chanter Part V: Phenomenology in Debate Introduction to Part V:
Phenomenology in Debate: Criticism, Cooperation, Inspiration Gerhard
Thonhauser and Sophie Loidolt
22. Phenomenology and Critical Theory/Frankfurt
School Danielle Petherbridge
23. Phenomenology and the Early Marx: The
Italian Phenomarxism and the Yugoslav Praxis Group Nils Baratella
24.
Phenomenology and Queer Theory Lanei M. Rodemeyer
25. Phenomenology and
Post-Foundationalism Matthias Flatscher Part VI: Contemporary Developments
Introduction to Part VI: Situating Contemporary Phenomenology Tobias Matzner
26. Feminism and Gender Marieke Borren
27. Race Yoko Arisaka
28.
Intersectionality Emily S. Lee
29. White Ignorance Lisa Guenther
30.
(De)colonization/Decolonizing Phenomenology Nelson Maldonado-Torres
31.
Migration Ayten Gündodu
32. Disability Luna Dolezal, Cathrin Fischer, and
Jonathan Paul Mitchell
33. Affects and Emotions Lucy Osler and Ruth Rebecca
Tietjen
34. Technology and the Digital World Nolen Gertz
35. Ecology and the
Environment Bryan E. Bannon. Index
Steffen Herrmann is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
Gerhard Thonhauser is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Sophie Loidolt is Professor and Chair of Practical Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Tobias Matzner is Professor in the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University, Germany.
Nils Baratella is Professor of Social Philosophy and Social Ethics at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Germany.
