Identity and liberation

An existential phenomenological approach

Lewis R. Gordon

pp. 189-205

in: Kevin Thompson, Lester Embree (eds), Phenomenology of the political, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

Political philosophy, whether in Rawlsian analyses of principles that demarcate who we are and what we should do about whom we exclude, Habermasian analyses of normative structural significations of communicative practice that also ask us who we are and what we should do about those who are excluded from our practices, or further back to Deweyan concerns about who we are and where we are going and Gramscian concerns about similar matters, has charted its twentieth-century course in many assertions and inversions of two paradigms that are part of the drama of who we, globally understood, are. Although effected in the twentieth-century, the drama unfolds from the nineteenth. What do I mean?

Cited authors

Gramsci Jr Antonio

Dewey John

Habermas Jürgen

Rawls John