1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology
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. Trần Đức Thảo: 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 Patočka: 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 Ricœur: 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 Gündoğdu
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
Biography
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.
