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 organised 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.

Auteur

Nils Baratella is Professor of Social Philosophy and Social Ethics at University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Germany.

Steffen Herrmann is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Fern Universität in Hagen, Germany.

Sophie Loidolt is Professor and Chair for Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Tobias Matzner is Professor at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University, Germany.

Gerhard Thonhauser is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at TU Darmstadt, Germany.