Political Phenomenology: Experience, Ontology, Episteme (Routledge Research in Phenomenology)

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. 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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 9 1 Three Types of Political Phenomenology 10 Part I Phenomenology of Political Experiences 24 2 Dialectical Praxis and the Decolonial Struggle: Sartre and Fanon’s Contributions to Political Phenomenology 26 3 The Normative Force of Suffered Violence 41 4 A Political Grammar of Feelings: Thinking the Political Through Sensitivity and Sentimentality 61 5 Being Concerned: For a Political Rehabilitation of an Unwelcome Affect 80 6 The Shimmering Phenomenon of Clandestinity: Political Phenomenology Beside Appearing and Vanishing 107 Part II Phenomenology of Political Ontology 128 7 Husserl and the Political: A Phenomenological Confrontation With Carl Schmitt and Alexandre Kojève 130 8 Rethinking the Politics of Post-Truth With Hannah Arendt 161 9 “Who One Is” – A Political Issue? Hannah Arendt on Personhood, Maximal Self, and Bare Life 174 10 Democracy and Terror: Toward a Phenomenology of (Dis-)Embodiment 202 11 The Power of Public Assemblies: Democratic Politics Following Butler and Arendt 211 12 The Matter of the Other 229 Part III Phenomenology of Political Episteme 246 13 Instituting Institutions: An Exploration of the Political Phenomenology of Stiftung 248 14 Intentionality, Representation, Recognition: Phenomenology and the Politics of A-Legality 265 15 The Struggle for a Common World: From Epistemic Power to Political Action With Arendt and Fricker 286 16 Doing Gender Differently? The Embodiment of Gender Norms as Between Permanence and Transformation 309 17 Filling in the Blank: Art, Politics, and Phenomenology 334 List of Contributors 359 Index 361 "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 essays in this volume ask in a methodological and systematic way how phenomenology can connect first-person experience with normative principles in political philosophy. The essays are divided into three thematic sections. Part I covers the phenomenology of political experience. The essays in this section focus on a variety of experiences that we come across in political practice. The essays 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"-- Provided by publisher