The Political Logic of Experience: Expression in Phenomenology

The Political Logic of Experience emphasizes the political nature of experience and phenomenology, highlighting their implications for understanding subjectivity, epistemology, experience, the phenomenological method, and politics. It develops an account of expression as the internal relationship between knowing, being, and doing, generating subjectivity as an expression of particular communities and subjects. By engaging with transcendental phenomenology, the book reveals the need for a phenomenological politics to explain the expressive, co-constitutive, and necessarily political relationships between subjects and their communities. This book offers foundational claims for phenomenology, politics, and social criticism, appealing to scholars in philosophy, gender studies, race, queer theory, transcendental and applied phenomenology, and beyond.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2022
Publisher: Fordham University Press

The Political Logic of Experience presents a compelling argument that experience and phenomenology are inherently political, holding profound implications for our understanding of subjectivity, epistemology, experience, the phenomenological method, and politics. By drawing on insights from across the phenomenological tradition, the book develops an account of expression as the internal relationship that unites knowing, being, and doing with both transcendental conditions and empirical phenomena. This expressive unification generates subjectivity as an expression of particular communities and subjects as an expression of subjectivity.

The book reveals that subjectivity and experience are inherently political, preceding their expression in specific subjects. By engaging in a dialogue with transcendental phenomenology, the book highlights the need for a phenomenological politics, which aims to explain the expressive, co-constitutive, and necessarily political relationships between subjects and their communities. This phenomenological politics is crucial in understanding the epistemological, ontological, and practical significance of issues such as racism and sexism, which directly impact our experiences of the world.

The book demonstrates that phenomenology is both inherently political and politically essential, as it emerges within particular communities and shapes and transforms how individuals within those communities experience the world. It explores topics such as transcendental phenomenology, political strategy, historical interpretation, and inter-disciplinary phenomenological method, making foundational claims pertaining to phenomenology, politics, and more.

In conclusion, The Political Logic of Experience offers a groundbreaking perspective on the political nature of experience and the constitution of subjectivity. By integrating phenomenology with transcendental phenomenology, the book provides a framework for understanding the complex relationships between individuals, communities, and the world. It sheds light on the importance of phenomenological politics in addressing issues of epistemology, ontology, and practical significance, and highlights the transformative power of phenomenology in shaping our experiences and understanding of the world.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781531500047