The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with conceptual questions about knowledge and ontology.However, in recent years, the rise of interest and research in applied phenomenology has seen the study of political phenomenology move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally. The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology is the first major collection on this important topic.Comprising 35 chapters by an international team of expert contributors, the handbook is organized into six clear parts, each with its own introduction by the editors:Founders of PhenomenologyExistentialist PhenomenologyPhenomenology of the Social and Political WorldPhenomenology of AlterityPhenomenology in DebateContemporary Developments. Full attention is given to central figures in the phenomenological movement, including Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, as well as those whose contribution to political phenomenology is more distinctive, such as Arendt, De Beauvoir, and F