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Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political: Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Fóti, Véronique M. (Editor), Kontos, Pavlos (Editor)
ISBN: 3319858394     ISBN-13: 9783319858395
Publisher: Springer
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology
- Philosophy | Political
Dewey: 142.7
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.86 lbs) 259 pages
 
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This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology. These objectives support each other, in that Taminiaux's own intellectual itinerary brought him increasingly to an affirmation of the importance of the political. Divided into four sections, the essays contained in this volume engage with different aspects of the political dimension of phenomenology: its dialogue with classic texts of political philosophy, the political facets of phenomenological praxis, phenomenology's contribution to actual political debates, and the impact of Taminiaux's work in the shaping of phenomenology's notion of politics.

The phrase "the primacy of the political" echoes the "primacy of perception" as it was famously defined by Merleau-Ponty. This book emphasizes, however, the inescapability of the political rather than its "foundational" character, i.e. the fact that various itineraries of thought, explored in different fields of phenomenological research, give rise to politically relevant reflections. It points out and elucidates political connotations that haunt phenomenological concepts, such as 'world', 'self', 'nature', 'intersubjectivity, or 'language', and traces them to a broad range of approaches, concepts, and methods. In its explorations, the book discusses a broad range of thinkers, including, but not limited to, Aristotle and Kant, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Arendt.