Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
The Legitimacy of the Life-World
Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
Reihe: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
ISBN: 978-1-032-37962-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Drawing on Husserl’s concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence – the life-world.
Michael F. Hickman offers a fresh return to the raw experience of politics through the contemporary realist idea of radical disagreement as the "circumstances of politics." He surpasses realist limitations through the acknowledgment of the constitution of the world as an achievement of the intersubjective community, while crucially asserting that the political horizon is distinguishable from, but coterminous with, the life-world itself. Through the use of hypotheticals, an unprecedented phenomenological account of political experience is offered, in which three major themes of political subjectivity are explored: belonging and possession, authority, and foreignness and political others. Finally, a multi-phase analysis of legitimacy is conducted which, taking into account universal human rights and concretely identifiable expressions of acceptance, is nonetheless rooted in a source – the life-world – that reaches beyond any mere collectivity of ego-acts.
Utilizing an expanded philosophical universe, Husserlian Phenomenology and Contemporary Political Realism offers a path forward from the ideological stalemates in which liberal theory seems hopelessly locked. It will appeal to scholars involved in the study of political theory and philosophy, international relations, intercultural studies, human rights and phenomenology.
Zielgruppe
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction 2. Two Guideposts: Innate Political Orientation v. Endemic Disagreement 3. Locating the Political 4. Ideal and Realist Legitimacy 5. The Phenomenological Contribution 6. The Life-World is Political 7. Eidetic and Transcendental Reductions (Transition to Political Subjectivity) 8. Major Themes of Political Subjectivity I: Belonging and Possession 9. Major Themes of Political Subjectivity II: Authority 10. Major Themes of Political Subjectivity III: Political Others and Foreignness 11. Political Intentionality: The Essence of Political Experience 12. The Legitimacy of the Life-World 13. Conclusion
