1st Edition

Political Phenomenology Experience, Ontology, Episteme

Edited By Thomas Bedorf, Steffen Herrmann Copyright 2020
    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    370 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Thomas Bedorf is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.



    Steffen Herrmann is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.