Political Phenomenology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Hwa Yol Jung

   Pages 1-31

3. Foreground: Staging Agenda for Political Phenomenology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility?

      • William McBride

      Pages 35-42

   3. Geophilosophy, the Life-World, and the Political

      • Calvin O. Schrag

      Pages 43-47

   4. Confrontations with Modernity

      • Thomas Nenon

      Pages 49-57

   5. Constructing a Schutzian Theory of Political Science

      • Lester Embree

      Pages 59-75

   6. Carnal Hermeneutics and Political Theory

      • Hwa Yol Jung

      Pages 77-92

   7. Arendt, Kant and the Beauty of Politics: A Phenomenological View

      • Ralph P. Hummel

      Pages 93-120

4. The Phenomenology Between Politics and Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Liberation Ethics and Transcendental Phenomenology

      • Michael Barber

      Pages 123-144

   3. Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political

      • Richard Sugarman

      Pages 145-170

   4. Is Heidegger’s Philosophy Ethically Meaningless?

      • Dongsoo Lee

      Pages 171-183

   5. Phenomenology of Recognition: Hegel’s Original Contribution to the Politics of Recognition in Global Society

      • Gibung Kwon

      Pages 185-203

   6. Levinas and Lukács: Totality and Infinity

      • Richard A. Cohen

      Pages 205-226

   7. Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights

      • Robert Bernasconi

      Pages 227-239

   8. Cross-Cultural Encounters: Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty

      • Fred Dallmayr

      Pages 241-257

   9. Phenomenology of Public Opinion: Communicative Body, Intercorporeality and Computer-Mediated Communication

      • Joohan Kim

      Pages 259-279

5. Political Situations and Contemporary Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

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   2. “Spaces of Freedom”: Materiality, Mediation, and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and Sartre

      • Sonia Kruks

      Pages 283-304

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.

• Critique of Political Behavioralism
• Critique of Political Essentialism
• Feminism and Politics
• Human Rights
• Leo Strauss’s Essentialism
• Phenomenological Philosophy of the Human Sciences
• Phenomenology of Politics
• Political Behaviorism
• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory
• Politics and Ethics
• Responsibility as First Ethics
• Transversal Philosophy and Politics

• Moravian College, Bethlehem, USA

  Hwa Yol Jung

• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Lester Embree

Hwa Yol Jung was born in a small village at the foothills of the majestic Mt. Chiri which created an aura of mystique when Siberian tigers were roaming, who now becamed extinct - the victims of so-called progress, civilization, or modernization. He received B.A. and M.A in political science in 1957 and 1958, respectively, from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1961, he spent the academic year of 1961-1962 at the University of Chicago and took the graduate seminar on Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit" given by the late John Wild, which was his introduction to phenomenology. His scholarship is highlighted by the following publications: (1) "The Foundation of Jacques Maritain's Political Philosophy" (in 1960 as a graduate student), (2) "Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory (ed., 1972) with a "Foreword" by Wild, (3) "Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung (2009) and (4) "Transversal Rationality and Interculturals Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy" (2011) which was awarded the Edward Ballard prize in 2012. His works have been translated into European and East-Asian languages. Lester Embree is a Constitutive Phenomenologist trained by Dorion Cairns and Aron Gurwitsch and author and editor of numerous works by them and also Alfred Schutz and specializing in the theory of the cultural sciences. 

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