Critical Phenomenology and Phenomenological Critique

"Phenomenological critique attempts to retrieve the lived experience of a human community alienated from its truthful condition and immersed in historical crises brought by processes objectification estrangement. This introductory article challenges two methodological assumptions that are largely shared North American Critical Phenomenology: definition phenomenology as first person approach rejection transcendental eidetics. While reflecting on importance otherness for phenomenology’s critical orientation, we reconsider eidetics standpoint Husserl’s genetic phenomenology, highlighting contingent character. Contrary received view classical an idealistic rigid undertaking, show his is interested material formation meaning (Sinnbildung), offering resources phenomenological materialist social theory. Keywords: theory, community, normativity "