The political logic of experience : expression in phenomenology / Neal DeRoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeRoo, Neal, 1981- author.

Series:

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology--Philosophy.

Phenomenology.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound implications for our understanding of subjectivity, epistemology, experience, the phenomenological method, and politics. Drawing on work from across the phenomenological tradition, it develops an account of expression as the internal relationship uniting knowing, being, and doing with both transcendental conditions and empirical phenomena. This expressive unification generates subjectivity as an expression of particular communities and subjects as an expression of subjectivity. Subjectivity and experience are therefore both revealed to be inherently political prior to their expression in particular subjects.In clarifying the political nature of experience and the constitution of subjectivity, the book puts the work of critical phenomenology in dialogue with transcendental phenomenology to reveal the need for a phenomenological politics: a field tasked with explaining the expressive, co-constitutive, and necessarily political relationships between subjects and their communities. It is only through such a phenomenological politics that we can properly make sense of the epistemological, ontological, and practical significance of issues like racism and sexism, problems that concern our very experience of the world. The book reveals phenomenology to be both essentially political and politically essential, as it emerges within particular communities and shapes and transforms how individuals within those communities experience the world.Touching on issues of transcendental phenomenology, political strategy, historical interpretation and inter-disciplinary phenomenological method, the book argues for foundational claims pertaining to phenomenology, politics, and social criticism that will be of interest to those working in philosophy, gender studies, race, queer theory, transcendental and applied phenomenology, and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Experience and the Problem of Expression

1 A Phenomenological Account of Expressivity

2 Material-Spiritual Flesh: The Subjective Implications of Expressivity

3 From Sense to Sensings: The Epistemological Implications of Expressivity

4 Making Sense of Experience: The Transcendental Implications of Expressivity

5 The Subject, Reduction, and Uses of Phenomenology: The Methodological Implications of Expressivity

6 Toward a Phenomenological Politics: The Political Implications of Expressivity

Conclusion: The Logic of Phenomenality

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: DeRoo, Neal The Political Logic of Experience

ISBN:

9781531500078

1531500072

OCLC:

1314614006