Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction

by Elisa Magri, Paddy McQueen

Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly developed in relation to philosophy of illness, disability, race, gender, sexuality, and politics, leading to the emergence of critical phenomenology as a new, prominent field for interdisciplinary research.

Magrì and McQueen's Critical An Introduction is the first book of its kind, addressing the critical questions at the core of both classical and contemporary phenomenology. This book provides a concise, accessible introduction to key areas of phenomenological research, such as intersubjectivity, bodily experience, race, gender, social experience, and political action. In doing so, it demonstrates both the rich history of phenomenology and its continuing philosophical and ethical importance.

This textbook will be essential reading for undergraduate philosophy students and academics interested in critical phenomenology.

Genres: Philosophy, Theory

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2022

Reviews

[Jay Green]

An excellent introduction to a highly topical field.

[Jiho Burrows]

This book is so fucking bad. It's so ironic that they constantly attempt to carve out clear boundaries between critical and classical phenomology when classical phenomologist were actually attempting to overcome the given neutrality of liberalism. At the same time, the authors clearly accept Ardent without any reflection of her philosophy. Come on man, she thought the American revolution was the best of all time, even though by definition it was reactionary. How is it possible that Ardent can be taken as a phenomologist, even though she never was, and also that primary critique against Sartre, when she was literally worse than him on literally everything? News flash, it's cause she's a liberal ideologue! What a fucking joke.