This volume presents political phenomenology as a new specialty in western philosophical and political thought that is post-classical, post-Machiavellian, and post-behavioral. It draws on history and sets the agenda for future explorations of political issues. It discloses crossroads between ethics and politics and explores border-crossing issues. All the essays in this volume challenge existing ideas of politics significantly. As such they open new ways for further explorations BY future generations of phenomenologists and non-phenomenologists alike. Moreover, the comprehensive chronological bibliography is unprecedented and provides not only an excellent picture of what phenomenologists have already done but also a guide for the future.PART I: FOREGROUND: STAGING AGENDA FOR POLITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY.- Chapter 1: Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility? William L. McBride.- Chapter 2: Geophilosophy, the Lifeworld, and the Political; Calvin O. Schrag.- Chapter 3: Confrontation with Modernity; Thomas Nenon.- Chapter 4: A Construction of Alfred Schutzs Theory of Political Science; Lester Embree.- Chapter 5: Carnal Hermeneutics and Political Theory; Hwa Yol Jung.- Chapter 6: Arendt, Kant, and the Beauty of Politics: A Phenomenological View; Ralph P. Hummel.- Chapter 7: Phenomenology of Public Opinion: The Communicative Body, Intercorporeality, and Computer-Mediated Communication; Joohan Kim.- PART II: CROSSROADS OF ETHICS AND POLITICS.- Chapter 8: Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political; Richard I. Sugarman.- Chapter 9: Levinas and Lukacs: Totality and InfinityPhenomenology Hegelian and Husserlian, and Kantian Ethics; Richard Cohen.- Chapter 10: Liberation Ethics and Transcendental Phenomenology; Michael Barber.- Chapter 11: Phenomenology of Recognition: Hegels Original Contribution to the Politics of Recognition in Global Society; Gi Bung Kwon.- Chapter 12: Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights; Robert BernasconilSz