Three Types of Political Phenomenology

Bedorf, Thomas; Herrmann, Steffen

doi:10.4324/9780429259852-1

Political Phenomenology 2019

DOI: 10.4324/9780429259852-1

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Three Types of Political Phenomenology

Thomas Bedorf¹,

Steffen Herrmann²

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“…Rather, I understand phenomenological inquiry as an investigation of the way concepts, terms and ideas shape lived experiences. As a matter of political philosophy that requires thinking about the way concepts, events and law shape public rituals, performances, as well as the way we understand ourselves (seeBedorf and Herrmann (2019), Political Phenomenology: Experience, Ontology and Episteme). For Arendt, the law, the Constitution, or a court decision, becomes a presence in the public sphere, where it is subject to interpretation and re-…”

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The Law as Fragment

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When Hannah Arendt writes about the law, she does so as a political theorist, genocide survivor and critic of modernity. She also writes as a phenomenologist, which is to say, she is mindful not only that people create the law, but that law constitutes a people. In Origins, she calls attention to the importance of the rule of law in the emergence of totalitarianism. In On Revolution, she seeks a way of grounding political authority in something other than an Absolute. In the process, Arendt looks to another group of intellectuals who grappled with the nature of authority under conditions of modernity—the Early German Romantics. Romantic fragments are philosophical, poetic, even musical. For Arendt, the most highly valued fragments are historical because these fragments provide not only protection against totalitarianism but also a possible solution to the problem of authority. In this article, I explore Arendt’s interpretation of the Declaration of Independence as a historical fragment. She draws on a phenomenological approach to fragments, found primarily in the work of Rahel Varnhagen and Dorothea Veit-Schlegel, to create a resilient yet malleable basis for authority, thereby grounding political authority in concrete historical events, rather than in human nature.

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