1st Edition

Phenomenology as Critique Why Method Matters

Edited By Andreea Smaranda Aldea, David Carr, Sara Heinämaa Copyright 2022
292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing on classical Husserlian resources as well as existentialist and hermeneutical approaches, this book argues that critique is largely a question of method. It demonstrates that phenomenological discussions of acute social and political problems draw from a rich tradition of radically critical investigations in epistemology, social ontology, political theory, and ethics. The contributions... Read more

1. Introduction: Critique – Matter of Methods

Sara Heinämaa, David Carr, and Andreea Smaranda Aldea

2. Phenomenology as Critical Method: Experience and Practice

David Carr

3. On the Functions of Examples in Critical Philosophy: Kant and Husserl

Michela Summa

4. Phenomenology and Critique: On ‘Mere’ Description and Its Normative Dimensions

Julia Jansen

5. Husserlian Phenomenology as Radical Immanent Critique – Or How Phenomenology Imagines Itself

Andreea Smaranda Aldea

6. Radical Besinnung as a Method for Phenomenological Critique

Mirja Hartimo

7. A Phenomenological Critique of Critical Phenomenology

Lanei Rodemeyer

8. On the Transcendental and Eidetic Resources of Phenomenology: A Case Study of Embodiment

Sara Heinämaa

9. Critical Phenomenology and Micro-Phenomenology: The First-Person Experience of the "Collective"

Natalie Depraz

10. Critique as Thinking-Freely and as Discernment of the Heart

Anthony Steinbock

11. Social Critique and Trust Dynamics

Alice Pugliese

12. Critique in the Age of Paranoid Revolt

Nicolas de Warren

13. Critique as Disclosure: Building Blocks for a Phenomenological Appropriation of Marx

Christian Lotz

14. Crisis and Modernity: On the Idea of Historical Critique

Timo Miettinen

15. What is Critique – for Phenomenology? A Foucauldian Perspective

Sophie Loidolt

16. The Power of the Reduction and the Reduction of Power: Husserl’s and Foucault’s Critical Project

Maren Wehrle

Biography

Andreea Smaranda Aldea is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University, USA.

David Carr is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University, USA.

Sara Heinämaa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

"The volume is a timely contribution with treasures in store for everyone from the verdant novice to the veteran phenomenological researcher . . . For anyone interested in classical phenomenology’s critical resources, Phenomenology as Critique is required reading."

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