This volume presents political phenomenology as a new specialty in western philosophical and political thought that is post-classical, post-Machiavellian, and post-behavioral. It draws on history and sets the agenda for future explorations of political issues. It discloses crossroads between ethics and politics and explores border-crossing issues.

​PART I: FOREGROUND: STAGING AGENDA FOR POLITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY.- Chapter 1: Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility? William L. McBride.- Chapter 2: Geophilosophy, the Lifeworld, and the Political; Calvin O. Schrag.- Chapter 3: Confrontation with Modernity; Thomas Nenon.- Chapter 4: A Construction of Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Political Science; Lester Embree.- Chapter 5: Carnal Hermeneutics and Political Theory; Hwa Yol Jung.- Chapter 6: Arendt, Kant, and the Beauty of Politics: A Phenomenological View; Ralph P. Hummel.- Chapter 7: Phenomenology of Public Opinion: The Communicative Body, Intercorporeality, and Computer-Mediated Communication; Joohan Kim.- PART II: CROSSROADS OF ETHICS AND POLITICS.- Chapter 8: Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political; Richard I. Sugarman.- Chapter 9: Levinas and Lukacs: Totality and Infinity—Phenomenology Hegelian and Husserlian, and Kantian Ethics; Richard Cohen.- Chapter 10: Liberation Ethics and Transcendental Phenomenology; Michael Barber.- Chapter 11: Phenomenology of Recognition: Hegel’s Original Contribution to the Politics of Recognition in Global Society; Gi Bung Kwon.- Chapter 12: Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights; Robert Bernasconi.- Chapter 13: Genocidal Rape as Spectacle; Debra Bergoffen.- Chapter 14: Is Heidegger’s Philosophy Ethically Meaningless? Dongsoo Lee.- Chapter 15: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Practical Agency: Contemporary Dilemmas of Feminist Theory in Benhabib, Young, and Kristeva; Patricia Huntington.- Chapter 16: Spaces of Freedom: Materiality, Mediation, and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and Sartre; Sonia Kruks.- Chapter 17: Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future; Martin Beck Matustik.- PART III: BORDER CROSSINGS.- Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Encounters: Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty; Fred Dallmayr.- Chapter 19: Transversality and Mestizaje: Moving Beyond the Purification—Resistance Impasse; John Francis Burke.- Chapter 20: When Monsters NoLonger Speak; Jane Anna Gordon and Lewis Ricardo Gordon.

This volume presents political phenomenology as a new specialty in western philosophical and political thought that is post-classical, post-Machiavellian, and post-behavioral. It draws on history and sets the agenda for future explorations of political issues. It discloses crossroads between ethics and politics and explores border-crossing issues. All the essays in this volume challenge existing ideas of politics significantly. As such they open new ways for further explorations BY future generations of phenomenologists and non-phenomenologists alike. Moreover, the comprehensive chronological bibliography is unprecedented and provides not only an excellent picture of what phenomenologists have already done but also a guide for the future.

Is innovative and rich in content, wide-ranging in scope, and persuasive in argumentation Offers a wealth of phenomenological wisdom and insights Shows that there is a critical mass for recognizing political phenomenology as a new specialty Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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