Contents	6
	Introduction	8
	References	14
	Part I: Reading the History of Political Philosophy	15
	The Struggle for Recognition and the Return of Primary Intersubjectivity	16
	1 The Summons: Fichte	17
	2 The Struggle: From Hegel to Honneth	18
	3 The Gift: From Taminiaux and Arendt Back to Fichte, Through Ricoeur	23
	References	26
	Intuition and Unanimity. From the Platonic Bias to the Phenomenology of the Political	28
	1 The Speculative Privilege of Intuition and Its Political Implications	28
	2 Totality Versus Plurality	31
	3 The Dismissal of a Universal and Totalizing Model of Plurality	34
	4 On the Theoretical Pretension to Universal Truth. Two Different Examples	36
	5 A Critical Question Concerning La Boétie’s Project	38
	References	40
	Phronêsis and the Ideal of Beauty	42
	References	52
	Part II: Political Facets of Phenomenology	54
	The Ethical Dimension of Transcendental Reduction	55
	1 The Framework of Phenomenological Reduction: Poiêsis or Praxis?	55
	2 A Unitary View of Husserl: Beyond the “Conventional” Versus the “New” or the “Other”	57
	3 Not a Mere Methodological Tool	64
	4 The Idea of Philosophy as a Self-Responsible Rigorous Science	65
	5 The Vicissitudes of Reduction	71
	6 Transcendental Reduction as Ethical Renewal	73
	References	76
	Individuation and Heidegger’s Ontological “Intuitionism”	80
	1 The Problem of Individuation	80
	2 Heidegger’s Intuitionism	81
	3 Different Modes of Seeing	85
	4 Perspicuity and Seeing the Self	90
	5 Conclusion: Hyper-Transcendental Misgivings	94
	References	96
	Historicizing the Mind: Gadamer’s “Hermeneutic Experience” Compared to Davidson’s “Radical Interpretation”	98
	1 The Debate Between Gadamer and Davidson	100
	2 Gadamer’s “Hermeneutic Experience”	104
	3 Davidson’s Process of Triangulation	108
	4 Conclusion	115
	References	116
	On the Metamorphoses of Transcendental Reduction: Merleau-Ponty and “the Adventures of Constitutive Analysis.”	118
	References	133
	On Merleau-Ponty’s Crystal Lamellae: Aesthetic Feeling, Anger, and Politics	135
	1 Phenomenology’s Crystal	135
	2 Crystal Lamellae	138
	3 Haunting Certainty	142
	4 Anger	147
	5 On the Politics of the Political: Terrorism and Humanism	150
	References	158
	Part III: Phenomenology in Political Concreteness	162
	Coercion by Necessity or Comprehensive Responsibility? Hannah Arendt on Vulnerability, Freedom and Education	163
	1 Introduction	163
	2 From Impartiality to Objectivity, from Ideas to Values.	164
	3 The Crisis of Authority and the Problem of Freedom	167
	4 Comprehensive Responsibility: The Elementary Problems of Living Together	172
	5 The Cultivation of Judgment	177
	6 Enlarged Thought, Vulnerability and Education	180
	References	182
	Edmund Husserl, Hannah Arendt and a Phenomenology of Nature	183
	1 Husserl and a Phenomenology of Nature	183
	2 Arendt and World	186
	References	195
	Symbols and Politics	197
	References	212
	Part IV: The Political Vision of Taminiaux’s Phenomenology	214
	Poetics and Politics	215
	References	222
	Nature, Art, and the Primacy of the Political: Reading Taminiaux with Merleau-Ponty	224
	References	236
	The Myth of Performativity: From Aristotle to Arendt and Taminiaux	238
	1 Aristotle and Performativity	239
	1.1 The Meeting Point: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics	239
	1.2 The Non-perfomativity of Aristotle’s Action	241
	2 The Phenomenology of Performativity	245
	2.1 Performances Within a Stable Reality	246
	2.2 Performative Power and Preservation	248
	2.3 Preservation Further Enhanced: Memory	251
	References	255
	Notes on the Editors and the Contributors	257
	Index of Names	260