Neal DeRoo Bücher

This work argues that experience and phenomenology are fundamentally political, reshaping our understanding of subjectivity, epistemology, and politics. By drawing on the phenomenological tradition, it presents an account of expression that links knowing, being, and doing with both transcendental conditions and empirical phenomena. This connection generates subjectivity as an expression of specific communities, revealing that both subjectivity and experience are inherently political before they manifest in particular subjects. The book clarifies the political nature of experience and subjectivity's constitution, engaging critical phenomenology with transcendental phenomenology to advocate for a phenomenological politics. This field aims to explain the expressive and co-constitutive relationships between subjects and their communities. Such a politics is essential for understanding the epistemological, ontological, and practical significance of issues like racism and sexism, which impact our experience of the world. The text highlights phenomenology as both politically essential and inherently political, emerging within communities and influencing how individuals perceive their surroundings. Addressing themes of transcendental phenomenology, political strategy, and interdisciplinary methods, it makes foundational claims relevant to philosophy, gender studies, race, queer theory, and applied phenomenology.