Political phenomenology : essays in memory of Petee Jung : [Conference, Boca Raton (Florida), May 2015

This volume presents political phenomenology as a new specialty in western philosophical and political thought that is post-classical, post-Machiavellian, and post-behavioral. It draws on history and sets the agenda for future explorations of political issues. It discloses crossroads between ethics and politics and explores border-crossing issues. All the essays in this volume challenge existing ideas of politics significantly. As such they open new ways for further explorations BY future generations of phenomenologists and non-phenomenologists alike. Moreover, the comprehensive chronological bibliography is unprecedented and provides not only an excellent picture of what phenomenologists have already done but also a guide for the future. Preface 8 The Role of Petee Jung 8 Genesis and the Significance of This Volume 10 Contents 12 Chapter 1: Introduction 15 1 Phenomenology as a Philosophical Movement 16 2 The Decline of Political Theory 17 3 Entry of Phenomenology in American Political Theory 18 3.1 III.1.1 19 3.2 III.1.2 21 3.3 III.3 25 3.4 III.4 27 3.5 Transversality in the Globalizing World of Multiculturalism 33 4 Origins and Status of This Collection 41 Part I: Foreground: Staging Agenda for Political Phenomenology 46 Chapter 2: Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility? 47 Chapter 3: Geophilosophy, the Life-World, and the Political 55 Chapter 4: Confrontations with Modernity 60 Chapter 5: Constructing a Schutzian Theory of Political Science 69 1 Introduction 69 2 Reading, Writing, and Political Events 70 3 Outlines of a Schutzian Theory of Political Science 72 3.1 Disciplinary Definition 73 3.2 Basic Concepts 76 3.3 Distinctive Methods 77 Appendix: Some Influences of Schutz on Political Science 80 Chapter 6: Carnal Hermeneutics and Political Theory 86 1 Prologue 87 2 Carnal Hermeneutics as a Postmodern Agendum 90 3 An Exemplary Personage of Carnal Hermeneutics: Luce Irigaray and Tactility 94 4 Epilogue 100 Chapter 7: Arendt, Kant and the Beauty of Politics: A Phenomenological View 102 1 Power and Beauty 104 2 Power, Beauty and Time 106 3 Fore-Running 107 4 Kant, Arendt, Heidegger and the Faculty of Judgment 108 5 Clearing the Decks 108 6 A Light in Dark Times? 109 6.1 Aesthetic Politics 109 6.1.1 The New and the Old 110 6.1.2 Connection to Politics 110 6.1.3 Aesthetic Politics: Based on a Feeling? 112 6.1.4 The Source in Arendt: A Hidden Critique? 113 6.1.5 From Beauty to Politics 114 6.1.6 Kant’s Aesthetics 116 6.1.7 The Source in Kant: Aesthetic Judgments 116 6.1.8 Arendt and Kant 119 6.1.9 An Example 120 6.2 Excursus: Voting—Political Aesthetics at Work 121 6.2.1 A Scale of Feeling 121 6.3 Analysis 125 6.3.1 Arendt and Kant: Aesthetic Politics 126 6.3.2 Aesthetics and the Natural Order 127 6.3.3 Aesthetic Political Theory 128 Part II: The Phenomenology Between Politics and Ethics 130 Chapter 8: Liberation Ethics and Transcendental Phenomenology 131 1 Dussel’s Theory of Modernity 132 2 The Formalist Objection 138 3 Marxian Economics in Dussel’s Ethics 146 4 Conclusion 151 Chapter 9: Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political 153 1 Political Phenomenology: Implications for the Present 168 2 Postscript: Beginning Again 170 3 Lessons for the Future 176 3.1 Postscript on 2016 American Presidential Politics 177 Chapter 10: Is Heidegger’s Philosophy Ethically Meaningless? 179 1 Dasein and Its Ethical Implications 179 2 Original Ethics and Its Nonmetaphysical Meanings 183 3 An-Archic Praxis and Its Political Implications 187 Chapter 11: Phenomenology of Recognition: Hegel’s Original Contribution to the Politics of Recognition in Global Society 192 1 The Idea of Recognition Revisited 192 2 Hegel’s Phenomenology of Recognition 197 2.1 General Structure of Recognition: Struggle for Recognition 198 2.2 Recognition Medicated by Love, Law, State, Wealth and Morality 202 3 Recognition in Civil Society and the State 206 4 Conclusion: Recognition in the Age of Globalism 208 Chapter 12: Levinas and Lukács: Totality and Infinity 211 1 Lukács Contra Kant 216 2 Levinas Contra Kant and Lukács 220 Chapter 13: Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights 233 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 233 2 The Experience of Human Rights 237 3 Human Rights in the Concrete 243 Chapter 14: Cross-Cultural Encounters: Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty 246 1 Hermeneutics: Its Meaning and Development 247 2 Hermeneutics and Practical Application 252 3 Hermeneutics and Inter-Cultural Dialogue 255 4 Merleau-Ponty and Inter-Corporeal Engagement 259 Chapter 15: Phenomenology of Public Opinion: Communicative Body, Intercorporeality and Computer-Mediated Communication 263 1 The Predicaments in Conceptualizing Public Opinion: “Voice of God” or “Voice of the Stupid”? 265 2 Public Opinion: Political Function or Individual Cognition? 267 3 A Discursive Model of Public Opinion 270 4 Public Opinion and Computer-Mediated Communication 271 4.1 Digitization of Information 271 4.2 Interactivity 272 4.3 The (World-Wide-) Web of Relations 272 5 Computer-Mediated Communication and the Significance of the Body 273 6 The Web of Relations on the Web 277 7 Conclusion: Dasein (Being-in-the-World-Wide-Web) and Public Opinion 281 Part III: Political Situations and Contemporary Problems 284 Chapter 16: “Spaces of Freedom”: Materiality, Mediation, and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and Sartre 285 1 Freedom and Alienation 291 2 The Vita Activa and Praxis 294 3 Political Participation and the “Spaces of Freedom” 298 4 Freedom and Direct Political Participation Today 304 Chapter 17: Transversality and Mestizaje: Moving Beyond the Purification-Resistance Impasse 307 1 The Purification Paradigm of Mestizaje 310 2 The Resistance Paradigm of Mestizaje 311 3 Transversality 315 4 The Transversal Paradigm of Mestizaje 318 5 Conclusion 322 Chapter 18: Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future 324 1 Conflicted Legacies of 1989 324 2 Three Illustrations of the Memorialization for an Open Future 326 3 Temporal and Conceptual Axes of Cultural Memory 329 Chapter 19: When Monsters No Longer Speak 332 Chapter 20: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Practical Agency: Contemporary Dilemmas of Feminist Theory in Benhabib, Young, and Kristeva 354 1 Benhabib: Situating Communicative Ethics 356 2 Young’s Dispute with Benhabib: Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Reciprocity? 359 3 Beyond the Impasse 362 3.1 Toward a Critical Social Phenomenology 362 3.2 Empathy, Imagination, and Enlarged Thinking 367 3.3 A Kristevan Rejoinder to the Anglo-American Debate in Feminist Theory 372 Chapter 21: Genocidal Rape as Spectacle 380 1 The Return of the Spectacle 380 2 Women as Inessential Others 382 3 Baudrillard and the Image 385 4 The Two-Count Verdict 388 5 A Radical Politics of Wonder and Trust 394 Biographical Notes 396 Chronological-Alphabetical Bibliography of Political Phenomenology (1913–2013): Compiled by Lester Embree (embree@fau.edu) 403 1913 403 1914 403 1920 403 1922 403 1925 404 1930 404 1932 404 1933 404 1934 404 1935 404 1936 405 1938 405 1939 405 1940 405 1941 405 1942 405 1945 406 1947 406 1948 406 1949 406 1950 406 1951 407 1953 407 1955 407 1958 407 1960 407 1961 407 1963 407 1964 408 1965 408 1966 408 1967 408 1969 408 1970 409 1972 409 1973 409 1974 409 1975 410 1976 410 1977 410 1978 411 1979 411 1980 411 1981 411 1982 412 1983 412 1984 412 1985 413 1986 413 1987 413 1988 414 1989 414 1990 415 1991 416 1992 416 1993 417 1994 418 1995 418 1996 419 1997 420 1998 420 1999 421 2000 422 2001 423 2002 424 2003 425 2004 426 2005 427 2006 428 2007 429 2008 430 2009 430 2010 430 2011 431 2012 431 2013 431 Forthcoming 431 Index 433 Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility?....Pages 35-42 Geophilosophy, the Life-World, and the Political....Pages 43-47 Confrontations with Modernity....Pages 49-57 Constructing a Schutzian Theory of Political Science....Pages 59-75 Carnal Hermeneutics and Political Theory....Pages 77-92 Arendt, Kant and the Beauty of Politics: A Phenomenological View....Pages 93-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Liberation Ethics and Transcendental Phenomenology....Pages 123-144 Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political....Pages 145-170 Is Heidegger’s Philosophy Ethically Meaningless?....Pages 171-183 Phenomenology of Recognition: Hegel’s Original Contribution to the Politics of Recognition in Global Society....Pages 185-203 Levinas and Lukács: Totality and Infinity....Pages 205-226 Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights....Pages 227-239 Cross-Cultural Encounters: Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty....Pages 241-257 Phenomenology of Public Opinion: Communicative Body, Intercorporeality and Computer-Mediated Communication....Pages 259-279 Front Matter....Pages 281-281 “Spaces of Freedom”: Materiality, Mediation, and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and Sartre....Pages 283-304 Transversality and Mestizaje: Moving Beyond the Purification-Resistance Impasse....Pages 305-321 When Monsters No Longer Speak....Pages 323-330 Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Practical Agency: Contemporary Dilemmas of Feminist Theory in Benhabib, Young, and Kristeva....Pages 331-352 Front Matter....Pages 353-378 Genocidal Rape as Spectacle....Pages 281-281 Back Matter....Pages 379-394 ....Pages 395-435