Beschreibung:
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.
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