Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political

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This volume is a Festschrift honoring Jacques Taminiaux, focusing on the primacy of the political within phenomenology. Taminiaux's intellectual journey increasingly affirms the significance of the political, which is reflected in the essays organized into four sections. These essays explore various aspects of phenomenology's political dimension, including its engagement with classic political philosophy texts, the political aspects of phenomenological praxis, its contributions to contemporary political debates, and Taminiaux’s influence on shaping phenomenology's understanding of politics. The phrase “the primacy of the political” resonates with Merleau-Ponty’s “primacy of perception,” emphasizing the inescapability of the political rather than its foundational nature. The book highlights how diverse phenomenological inquiries lead to politically relevant insights, revealing political implications within concepts like ‘world,’ ‘self,’ ‘nature,’ ‘intersubjectivity,’ and ‘language.’ It traces these implications through a wide array of approaches, concepts, and methods, discussing influential thinkers such as Aristotle, Kant, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Arendt.