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Phenomenology of Political Space of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jan Patočka
Di Fazio, Caterina ; Novotný, Karel (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee) ; Balibar, Étienne (referee)
Phenomenology of Political Space Phenomenology of Political Space is an attempt to provide both a genealogical and a phenomenological account of a subject that philosophy rarely confronts, namely political space. Our analysis thus encompasses all the dimensions of political space-political, historical, geographical, and juridical-without dismissing any of them. It aims at showing the intrinsic connection between phenomenology and modern and contemporary political thought. It does so by identifying the two opposing models of political space, respectively shaped by Machiavelli and Hobbes{ XE "Hobbes" }, which we claim correspond to two opposing systems of visibility: a logic of appearance versus a logic of representation. It then moves to the contemporary phenomenological approach and gives both a phenomenology of movement and a phenomenology of political space. The central idea is the opposition, in modern and contemporary political thought, between appearance and representation, or in other words, between immediacy and mediation, as the terms are used respectively by Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as by other authors who, in the twentieth century, studied their works (Maurice Merleau-Ponty{ XE "Merleau-Ponty" }, Jan Patočka{ XE "Patočka" }, Carl Schmitt{ XE "Schmitt" }). Our current research focuses on...
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Phenomenology of Political Space of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jan Patočka
Di Fazio, Caterina ; Novotný, Karel (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee) ; Balibar, Étienne (referee)
Phenomenology of Political Space Phenomenology of Political Space is an attempt to provide both a genealogical and a phenomenological account of a subject that philosophy rarely confronts, namely political space. Our analysis thus encompasses all the dimensions of political space-political, historical, geographical, and juridical-without dismissing any of them. It aims at showing the intrinsic connection between phenomenology and modern and contemporary political thought. It does so by identifying the two opposing models of political space, respectively shaped by Machiavelli and Hobbes{ XE "Hobbes" }, which we claim correspond to two opposing systems of visibility: a logic of appearance versus a logic of representation. It then moves to the contemporary phenomenological approach and gives both a phenomenology of movement and a phenomenology of political space. The central idea is the opposition, in modern and contemporary political thought, between appearance and representation, or in other words, between immediacy and mediation, as the terms are used respectively by Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as by other authors who, in the twentieth century, studied their works (Maurice Merleau-Ponty{ XE "Merleau-Ponty" }, Jan Patočka{ XE "Patočka" }, Carl Schmitt{ XE "Schmitt" }). Our current research focuses on...
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