Order, experience, and critique: The phenomenological method in political and legal theory

Abstract The paper investigates phenomenology’s possibilities to describe, reflect and critically analyse political legal orders. It presents a “toolbox” of methodological reflections, tools topics, by relating the classics tradition emerging movement “critical phenomenology,” as well touching upon current issues such experiences rightlessness, in digital lifeworld, public sphere. is argued that phenomenology provides us with dynamic framework emphasizes correlational, co-constitutional, interrelational structures, thus pays attention modes givenness, making unmaking “world,” and, thereby, inter/subjective, affective, bodily constitution meaning. In case orders, questions power, exclusion, normativity are central issues. By looking at “best practice” models Hannah Arendt’s analyses, points out an analytical tool flexible “spaces meaning” phenomenologists can use modify they go along. debates on issues, author sees main task reclaim experience world-building world-opening, also normative sense, demonstrate how structures orders lived while condition form spaces If we want understand, criticize, act, or change something, this subjective intersubjective perspective will remain indispensable.