Elements of Responsible Politics
This collection of essays draws together work done during a period of more than fifteen years. In the course of these years much has changed, including much about politics. Patterns of political activity have been trans formed. Ways in which we had been
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CO~UTIONSTOPHENOMENOLOGY
IN COOPERATION WITH
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY Volume?
Editorial Board: William R. McKenna, Miami University (Editor) David Ca", University of Ottawa Lester Embree, Duquesne University Jose Huertas-Jourda, Wilfred Laurier University Joseph J. Kockelmans, The Pennsylvania State University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University J. N. Mohanty, Temple University Thomas M. Seebohm, Johannes Gutenberg-UniversitiU, Mainz Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University
Scope The purpose of this series is to foster the development of phenomenological philosophy through creative research. Contemporary issues in philosophy, other disCiplines and in culture generally, offer opportunities for the application of phenomenological methods that call for creative responses. Although the work of several generations of thinkers has provided phenomenology with many results with which to approach these challenges, a truly succesful response to them will require building on this work with new analyses and methodological innovations.
ELEMENTSOF RESPONSIBLE POLITICS
by
BERNARDP.DAUENHAUER University ofGeorgia. U.S.A.
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS, MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dauenhauer, Bernard P. Elements of responsible polltics / by Bernard Dauenhauer. cm. -- (Contrlbutions ta phenomenologyJ p. Includes blbllographlcal references and Index. ISBN 978-94-010-5579-6 ISBN 978-94-011-3564-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3564-1
1. Pol itlcal sclence. 1. ritle. II. Serles. JA38.D38 1991 320'.01--dc20
2. Polltical sClence--Phi losophy. 91-22695
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To the memory of Edward Goodwin Ballard
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ................................... ix Preface ........................................... xi PART I
Renovating the Problem of Politics ..................... 3 One Central Link Between Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Language and His Political Thought ................... 19 Merleau Ponty's Political Thought: Its Nature and Its Challenge .................................... 37 Merleau-Ponty on Politics, History, and Violence ........... 51 PART II Relational Freedom and Its Political Consequences ......... 65 I and Mine .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 85 The Interpretation of the Human Way of Being and Its Political Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 97 PART III Hope and Its Ramifications for Politics .................. 117 The Place of Hope in Politics ....
