The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology

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.