The Political Logic of Experience: Expression in Phenomenology

264 Pages·2022·1.943 MB·English

by  Neal DeRoo

The Po liti cal Logic of Experience
Series Board
James Bernauer
Drucilla Cornell
Thomas R. Flynn
Kevin Hart
Richard Kearney
Jean-L uc Marion
Adriaan Peperzak
Thomas Sheehan
Hent de Vries
Merold Westphal
Michael Zimmerman
John D. Caputo, series editor

NEAL DeROO
The Po liti cal Logic of Experience
Expression in Phenomenology
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York ■ 2022
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Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: Experience and the Prob lem of Expression 1
1 A Phenomenological Account of Expressivity 27
2 Material- Spiritual Flesh: The Subjective Implications
of Expressivity 47
3 From Sense to Sensings: The Epistemological
Implications of Expressivity 67
4 Making Sense of Experience: The Transcendental
Implications of Expressivity 87
5 The Subject, Reduction, and Uses of Phenomenology:
The Methodological Implications of Expressivity 113
6 Toward a Phenomenological Politics: The Po liti cal
Implications of Expressivity 135
Conclusion: The Logic of Phenomenality 159
Acknowle dgments 181
Notes 183
Works Cited 221
Index 233

Abbreviations
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