Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political

Part I. Reading the History of Political Philosophy

1. The Struggle for Recognition and the Return of Primary Intersubjectivity
Shaun Gallagher

2. Intuition and Unanimity. From the Platonic Bias to the Phenomenology of the Political
Fabio Ciaramelli

3.
Phronêsis and the Ideal of Beauty
Danielle Lories

Part II. Political Facets of Phenomenology

4. The Ethical Dimension of Transcendental Reduction
Rosemary R. P. Lerner

5. Individuation and Heidegger’s Ontological “Intuitionism”
Mark A. Wrathall

6. Historicizing the Mind: Gadamer’s “Hermeneutic Experience” Compared to Davidson’s “Radical Interpretation”
Pol Vandevelde

7. On the Metamorphoses of Transcendental Reduction: Merleau-Ponty and “the Adventures of Constitutive Analysis.”
Stephen Watson

8. On Merleau-Ponty’s Crystal Lamellae: Aesthetic Feeling, Anger, and Politics
Babette Babich

Part III. Phenomenology in Political Concreteness

9. Coercion by Necessity or Comprehensive Responsibility? Hannah Arendt on Vulnerability, Freedom and Education
Sharon Rider

10. Edmund Husserl, Hannah Arendt and a Phenomenology of Nature
Janet Donohoe

11. Symbols and Politics
Paul Bruno

Part IV. The Political Vision of Taminiaux’s Phenomenology

12. Poetics and Politics
Françoise Dastur

13. Nature, Art, and the Primacy of the Political: Reading Taminiaux with Merleau-Ponty
Véronique M. Fóti

14. The Myth of Performativity: From Aristotle to Arendt and Taminiaux
Pavlos Kontos

Avainsanat: Philosophy, Phenomenology, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy