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Phenomenology of the Political

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Kevin Thompson

    1. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

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  2. Lester Embree

    1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 38)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kevin Thompson
      Pages 1-5

  3. Notes on Contributors

    1. Notes on Contributors

      • Kevin Thompson, Lester Embree
      Pages 7-8

  4. Basic Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Who is the Political Actor? An Existential Phenomenological Approach

      • Steven Galt Crowell
      Pages 11-28

    3. Political Community

      • John J. Drummond
      Pages 29-53

    4. Intersubjectivity and Community

      • Adriaan T. Peperzak
      Pages 55-64

  5. Figures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Ricœur’s Early Political Thought

      • Bernard P. Dauenhauer
      Pages 67-79

    3. Schutz on Reducing Social Tensions

      • Lester Embree
      Pages 81-102

  6. Fundamental Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Personality of Higher Order: Husserlian Reflections on the Québec Problem

      • R. Philip Buckley
      Pages 105-120

    3. Socrates, Christ, and Buddha as “Political” Leaders

      • Natalie Depraz
      Pages 121-132

    4. Towards a Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty

      • Kevin Thompson
      Pages 133-146

    5. Taking Responsibility Seriously

      • Hwa Yol Jung
      Pages 147-165

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 207-213
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About this book

This volume is a collection of phenomenological investigations of the political domain. Its aim is to present recent examinations of political matters and to foster a renewal of this sort of inquiry in phenomenology generally. Although it has often gone unrecognized, investigations of this sort have been a part of the phenomenological project since its inception. Two phases can be identified: the first governed primarily by the methods of realistic and constitutive phenomenology, and the second under the guidance of existential and hermeneutical approaches. Standard accounts of the history of phenomenology begin, of course, with the publication of Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen (1900-1901) in which for the first time he publicly developed and applied his distinctively descriptive approach-the so-called method of eidetic analysis with its unique emphasis on the concept of evidence understood as intention fulfillment-to the fields of logical and mathematical systems. But those aroundhim in Gottingen quickly saw the innovative character of this method and began employing it in a wide variety of other areas of research: literature, sociology, ethics, action theory, and even theology, for example.

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`Overall, this book has value for anyone interested in political theory. It would be essential reading for anyone interested in phenomenology's encounter with the political sphere.'
Ethics, 112:1 (2001)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

    Kevin Thompson

  • Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

    Lester Embree

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