Phenomenology and the Political

Geoffrey Pfeifer is Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Žižek (2015).S. West Gurley is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Minding the Gap: What it is to Pay Attention Following the Collapse of the Subject-Object Distinction (2013).

An amazingly timely update to phenomenology that shows how it can be socially critical and political! The contributions from scholars who work in post-coloniality, feminism, race, environmentalism, and political philosophy, with phenomenological methods (that often have to be newly crafted and defined), succeed together in creating a coherent, progressive, and original resource within so-called continental philosophy. This collection breaks new ground from multiple angles and is a wonderful introduction to and invention of progressive phenomenology.

• Introduction, Geoff Pfeifer and S. West Gurley / Part I Phenomenological Politics and Livability/1. Recovering the Sensus Communis: Arendt’s Phenomenology of Political Affects, Peg Birmingham / 2. Heideggerian Phenomenology and the Postmetaphysical Politics of Ontological Pluralism, Iain Thomson / 3. Phenomenology and the Impasse of Politics, William Koch / 4. The Politics of Spirit and the Self Destruction of the State to Come: Heidegger’s Rectorate in the Black Notebooks, Andrew Mitchell / Part II Race and Anti-Colonialism / 5. Insurgent Subjects: Hegel, Césaire, and the Origins of Decolonial Phenomenology, Chad Kautzer / 6. Incarnate Historiography and the Politics of our Faces, John Drabinski / 7. What Does the Racist See? A Hegelian Reflection on Anti-Racist Tactics, Chioke I’Anson / 8. Native Cognitive Schemas and Decolonizing Democratic Ethics, Shay Welch / Part III The Body and Gender / 9. Varieties of Consciousness Under Oppression: False Consciousness, Bad Faith, Double Consciousness, an