Political Phenomenology, 1st ed. 2016 Essays in Memory of Petee Jung Contributions to Phenomenology Series, Vol. 84

This volume presents political phenomenology as a new specialty in western philosophical and political thought that is post-classical, post-Machiavellian, and post-behavioral. It draws on history and sets the agenda for future explorations of political issues. It discloses crossroads between ethics and politics and explores border-crossing issues. All the essays in this volume challenge existing ideas of politics significantly. As such they open new ways for further explorations BY future generations of phenomenologists and non-phenomenologists alike. Moreover, the comprehensive chronological bibliography is unprecedented and provides not only an excellent picture of what phenomenologists have already done but also a guide for the future.

​PART I: FOREGROUND: STAGING AGENDA FOR POLITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY.- Chapter 1: Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility? William L. McBride.- Chapter 2: Geophilosophy, the Lifeworld, and the Political; Calvin O. Schrag.- Chapter 3: Confrontation with Modernity; Thomas Nenon.- Chapter 4: A Construction of Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Political Science; Lester Embree.- Chapter 5: Carnal Hermeneutics and Political Theory; Hwa Yol Jung.- Chapter 6: Arendt, Kant, and the Beauty of Politics: A Phenomenological View; Ralph P. Hummel.- Chapter 7: Phenomenology of Public Opinion: The Communicative Body, Intercorporeality, and Computer-Mediated Communication; Joohan Kim.- PART II: CROSSROADS OF ETHICS AND POLITICS.- Chapter 8: Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political; Richard I. Sugarman.- Chapter 9: Levinas and Lukacs: Totality and Infinity—Phenomenology Hegelian and Husserlian, and Kantian Ethics; Richard Cohen.- Chapter 10: Liberation Ethics and Transcendental Phenomenology; Michael Barber.- Chapter 11: Phenomenology of Recognition: Hegel’s Original Contribution to the Politics of Recognition in Global Society; Gi Bung Kwon.- Chapter 12: Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights; Robert Bernasconi.- Chapter 13: Genocidal Rape as Spectacle; Debra Bergoffen.- Chapter 14: Is Heidegger’s Philosophy Ethically Meaningless? Dongsoo Lee.- Chapter 15: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Practical Agency: Contemporary Dilemmas of Feminist Theory in Benhabib, Young, and Kristeva; Patricia Huntington.- Chapter 16: Spaces of Freedom: Materiality, Mediation, and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and Sartre; Sonia Kruks.- Chapter 17: Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future; Martin Beck Matustik.- PART III: BORDER CROSSINGS.- Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Encounters: Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty; Fred Dallmayr.- Chapter 19: Transversality and Mestizaje: Moving Beyond the Purification—Resistance Impasse; John Francis Burke.- Chapter 20: When Monsters NoLonger Speak; Jane Anna Gordon and Lewis Ricardo Gordon.

Hwa Yol Jung was born in a small village at the foothills of the majestic Mt. Chiri which created an aura of mystique when Siberian tigers were roaming, who now becamed extinct - the victims of so-called progress, civilization, or modernization. He received B.A. and M.A in political science in 1957 and 1958, respectively, from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1961, he spent the academic year of 1961-1962 at the University of Chicago and took the graduate seminar on Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit" given by the late John Wild, which was his introduction to phenomenology. His scholarship is highlighted by the following publications: (1) "The Foundation of Jacques Maritain's Political Philosophy" (in 1960 as a graduate student), (2) "Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory (ed., 1972) with a "Foreword" by Wild, (3) "Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung (2009) and (4) "Transversal Rationality and Interculturals Texts: Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy" (2011) which was awarded the Edward Ballard prize in 2012. His works have been translated into European and East-Asian languages. Lester Embree is a Constitutive Phenomenologist trained by Dorion Cairns and Aron Gurwitsch and author and editor of numerous works by them and also Alfred Schutz and specializing in the theory of the cultural sciences. 

Is innovative and rich in content, wide-ranging in scope, and persuasive in argumentation Offers a wealth of phenomenological wisdom and insights Shows that there is a critical mass for recognizing political phenomenology as a new specialty Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras