Introducing Political Phenomenology Gerhard Thonhauser, Sophie Loidolt, and Steffen Herrmann Part I: Founders of Phenomenology Introduction to Part I: Plural Beginnings, Ambivalent Heritage Sophie Loidolt 1. Edmund Husserl: Idealistic Politics and Communal Spirit Sophie Loidolt and Dan Zahavi 2. Max Scheler: The Politics of Ressentiment Zachary Davis 3. Martin Heidegger: Destiny, Founding, and Being Richard Polt 4. Context: Community, State, and Law in Times of Crisis Michael Gubser Part II: Existentialist Phenomenology Introduction to Part II: Politicizing Phenomenology in the Struggle With Colonialism, National Socialism, and Stalinism Gerhard Thonhauser 5. Jean-Paul Sartre: On the Many Senses of the Political in His Writings Nicolas de Warren and William Remley 6. Simone de Beauvoir: Encroachment, Agency, Embodiment Sara Heinämaa 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Contingency, Conflict, and Coexistence Martin Oppelt 8. Trần Đức Thảo. Practicing Phenomenology Through Anticolonialism, Dialectical Materialism, and Socialism Jérôme Melançon 9. Frantz Fanon: Anticolonial Phenomenology, Refusal, and the Question of Method Alia Al-Saji 10. Context: From Existential Marxism to Post-Marxism Gerhard Thonhauser Part III: Phenomenology of the Social and Political World Introduction to Part III: Phenomenology of the Social and Political World Nils Baratella 11. Alfred Schütz: Imposed Political Relevances and the Subjective Meaning of the Actor Michael D. Barber 12. Günther Anders: Technology, Antiquatedness, and Apocalypse Babette Babich 13. Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Worldliness, and Action: Inverting the Image of Totalitarianism Sophie Loidolt 14. Jan Patočka: Heresies, History, and the Care for the Soul in Its Political Aspects James Dodd 15. Context: Between Individualism and Totalitarianism Nils Baratella Part IV: Phenomenology of Alterity Introduction to Part IV: From the Primacy of the Other to the Politics of Alterity Steffen Herrmann 16. Emmanuel Levinas: The Politics of Alterity Steffen Herrmann 17. Paul Ricœur: The Political Through the Lens of Oneself as Another Dries Deweer 18. Luce Irigaray: The Politics of Sexual Difference as Anontological Difference Anne van Leeuwen 19. Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction: Through Phenomenology to the Political Joseph Cohen 20. Bernhard Waldenfels: Responsive Phenomenology of the Political Thomas Bedorf Translation by Felix Schneider 21. Context: Philosophies of Dialogue and Psychoanalytic Thought: The Impossibility of Thinking ‘I’ Without the Other Tina Chanter Part V: Phenomenology in Debate Introduction to Part V: Phenomenology in Debate: Criticism, Cooperation, Inspiration Gerhard Thonhauser and Sophie Loidolt 22. Phenomenology and Critical Theory/Frankfurt School Danielle Petherbridge 23. Phenomenology and the Early Marx: The Italian Phenomarxism and the Yugoslav Praxis Group Nils Baratella 24. Phenomenology and Queer Theory Lanei M. Rodemeyer 25. Phenomenology and Post-Foundationalism Matthias Flatscher Part VI: Contemporary Developments Introduction to Part VI: Situating Contemporary Phenomenology Tobias Matzner 26. Feminism and Gender Marieke Borren 27. Race Yoko Arisaka 28. Intersectionality Emily S. Lee 29. White Ignorance Lisa Guenther 30. (De)colonization/Decolonizing Phenomenology Nelson Maldonado-Torres 31. Migration Ayten Gündoğdu 32. Disability Luna Dolezal, Cathrin Fischer, and Jonathan Paul Mitchell 33. Affects and Emotions Lucy Osler and Ruth Rebecca Tietjen 34. Technology and the Digital World Nolen Gertz 35. Ecology and the Environment Bryan E. Bannon. Index