Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political (eBook)

Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux

Véronique M. Fóti, Pavlos Kontos (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
259 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-56160-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 ofphenomenological 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.

Autor

Véronique Fóti is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology (Northwestern UP: Evanston, Illinois, 2013), Epochal Discordance: Hölderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy (SUNY: Albany, 2007), Vision's Invisibles: Philosophical Investigations (SUNY: Albany, 2003), Heidegger and the Poets: Poiêsis, Sophia, Technê (Humanities Press: New York, 1992). She is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled Merleau-Ponty at the Gallery: Phenomenological Aesthetics and Practices of Visual Art.Pavlos Kontos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras. His publications include: (ed.) Evil in Aristotle (Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2017), (ed.) Phenomenology and The Metaphysics of Sight (with A. Cimino. Brill: Leiden, 2015), Aristotle’s Moral Realism Reconsidered. Phenomenological Ethics (Routledge: New York, 2013), (ed.) Gadamer et les Grecs (with J.C. Gens & P. Rodrigo. Vrin: Paris, 2005), L’action morale chez Aristote (Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, 2002), D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1996). 

Inhalt

Contents 6
Introduction 8
References 14
Part I: Reading the History of Political Philosophy 15
The Struggle for Recognition and the Return of Primary Intersubjectivity 16
1 The Summons: Fichte 17
2 The Struggle: From Hegel to Honneth 18
3 The Gift: From Taminiaux and Arendt Back to Fichte, Through Ricoeur 23
References 26
Intuition and Unanimity. From the Platonic Bias to the Phenomenology of the Political 28
1 The Speculative Privilege of Intuition and Its Political Implications 28
2 Totality Versus Plurality 31
3 The Dismissal of a Universal and Totalizing Model of Plurality 34
4 On the Theoretical Pretension to Universal Truth. Two Different Examples 36
5 A Critical Question Concerning La Boétie’s Project 38
References 40
Phronêsis and the Ideal of Beauty 42
References 52
Part II: Political Facets of Phenomenology 54
The Ethical Dimension of Transcendental Reduction 55
1 The Framework of Phenomenological Reduction: Poiêsis or Praxis? 55
2 A Unitary View of Husserl: Beyond the “Conventional” Versus the “New” or the “Other” 57
3 Not a Mere Methodological Tool 64
4 The Idea of Philosophy as a Self-Responsible Rigorous Science 65
5 The Vicissitudes of Reduction 71
6 Transcendental Reduction as Ethical Renewal 73
References 76
Individuation and Heidegger’s Ontological “Intuitionism” 80
1 The Problem of Individuation 80
2 Heidegger’s Intuitionism 81
3 Different Modes of Seeing 85
4 Perspicuity and Seeing the Self 90
5 Conclusion: Hyper-Transcendental Misgivings 94
References 96
Historicizing the Mind: Gadamer’s “Hermeneutic Experience” Compared to Davidson’s “Radical Interpretation” 98
1 The Debate Between Gadamer and Davidson 100
2 Gadamer’s “Hermeneutic Experience” 104
3 Davidson’s Process of Triangulation 108
4 Conclusion 115
References 116
On the Metamorphoses of Transcendental Reduction: Merleau-Ponty and “the Adventures of Constitutive Analysis.” 118
References 133
On Merleau-Ponty’s Crystal Lamellae: Aesthetic Feeling, Anger, and Politics 135
1 Phenomenology’s Crystal 135
2 Crystal Lamellae 138
3 Haunting Certainty 142
4 Anger 147
5 On the Politics of the Political: Terrorism and Humanism 150
References 158
Part III: Phenomenology in Political Concreteness 162
Coercion by Necessity or Comprehensive Responsibility? Hannah Arendt on Vulnerability, Freedom and Education 163
1 Introduction 163
2 From Impartiality to Objectivity, from Ideas to Values. 164
3 The Crisis of Authority and the Problem of Freedom 167
4 Comprehensive Responsibility: The Elementary Problems of Living Together 172
5 The Cultivation of Judgment 177
6 Enlarged Thought, Vulnerability and Education 180
References 182
Edmund Husserl, Hannah Arendt and a Phenomenology of Nature 183
1 Husserl and a Phenomenology of Nature 183
2 Arendt and World 186
References 195
Symbols and Politics 197
References 212
Part IV: The Political Vision of Taminiaux’s Phenomenology 214
Poetics and Politics 215
References 222
Nature, Art, and the Primacy of the Political: Reading Taminiaux with Merleau-Ponty 224
References 236
The Myth of Performativity: From Aristotle to Arendt and Taminiaux 238
1 Aristotle and Performativity 239
1.1 The Meeting Point: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 239
1.2 The Non-perfomativity of Aristotle’s Action 241
2 The Phenomenology of Performativity 245
2.1 Performances Within a Stable Reality 246
2.2 Performative Power and Preservation 248
2.3 Preservation Further Enhanced: Memory 251
References 255
Notes on the Editors and the Contributors 257
Index of Names 260

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions to Phenomenology
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions to Phenomenology
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 259 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Applied Phenomenology • Arendt and Aristotle • Heidegger and Politics • Jacques Taminiaux • Merleau-Ponty and Politics • Phenomenological Reduction and Politics • Phenomenology and politics • Phenomenology of the political • Poetics and Politics • Political Phenomenology
• ISBN-10: 3-319-56160-X / 331956160X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-56160-8 / 9783319561608