Fordham University Press eBooks
June 7, 2022
Neal Deroo
7 citations
Expressivity—the process tying together knowing, being, and doing—is the logic of experience itself, simultaneously transcendental and empirical. Because this logic necessarily links a socially constituting force with socially constituted individuals, it is inherently political. The book argues that political questions cannot be separated from understanding human experience, that phenomenology remains essential for addressing those questions, and that every transcendental claim about experience is inseparable from particular empirical circumstances. This framework offers expressivity as an ultra-transcendental account of phenomenality, explains the relation between transcendental and critical or applied phenomenology, provides a political understanding of experience that supports feminism, critical race theory, and queer theory, and contends that fighting oppression is phenomenological, not merely cultural or structural.
The Political Logic of Experience
June 7, 2022
Neal Deroo
The chapter argues that transcendental phenomenology is essential for fully understanding experience, and that phenomenology is needed to account for key aspects of that understanding. It explains how subjectivity arises from the expressive unity of phenomenality, which justifies the first-person perspective used across interdisciplinary phenomenology. Using this account, it clarifies the reduction, epoché, intentionality, and the principle of principles as methodological tools for examining how phenomena relate to each other and to transcendental processes. Finally, it shows how transcendental phenomenology connects to applied phenomenology through generating insights, establishing a Stiftung, and enabling a distinct way of sensing the world.
The Political Logic of Experience
June 7, 2022
Neal Deroo
The chapter argues that concrete, empirical phenomena alter the transcendental conditions of their own appearing, and that these conditions are experienced indirectly in subjective experience. This expressive relationship means that empirical experiences shape understanding of the transcendental, and vice versa. Transcendental phenomenology is thus a political and critical endeavor: it is constituted within empirical conditions and constitutive of them, articulating concepts like race, gender, and sexuality that generate empirical conditions. Radical politics requires transforming these transcendental conditions, making transcendental phenomenology essential for politics.