Standpoint Phenomenology: Methodologies of Breakdown, Sign, and Wonder

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
	References
The Problem of Standpoint in Phenomenology
	The Aims and Means of Classical Phenomenology
	Distinguishing the Problem
	Standpoint Phenomenology and Critical Phenomenology
	A (Mainly) Heideggerian Approach
	Conclusion
	References
Standpoint Epistemology/Standpoint Phenomenology
	Habit and Sedimentation
	The Problem with Sedimentation and Ngo’s Novel Interpretive Move
	Standpoint Theory
		Standpoint Theory: The Three Theses
		Situated Knowledge
	Ngo’s Situated Knowledge
	Achievement
	Ngo’s Achievement
	Inverted Privilege
	Ngo’s Privilege
	Conclusion
	References
General Obstacles for Phenomenological Methodologies
	The Problem of Distortion
	The Problem of What Is “Hidden”
	Conclusion
	References
The Methodology of Breakdown as a Standpoint Approach
	Breakdown as Method
		Breakdown and the Ready-to-Hand
	Heidegger on Interpretation
		The Bridge of Breakdown
	Fanon’s Breakdown as a Standpoint Approach
		The Body Schema
		Revising the Body Schema
		A Socially Situated Breakdown
		Breakdown & Achievement
		A Breakdown of Inverted Phenomenological Privilege
	Conclusion
	References
Signs and Standpoints
	Formal Indication
		The Problem of Descriptive Reflection
	Sign as Method
		What Signs Reveal About Reference
		Signs as Methodology
		Using the Methodology of Signs: An Example
	Socially Situated Signs—Why Some Signs Say More to Certain People
	Ahmed’s Insight
		Orientation and Repetition
		Signs as Orienting and Shaping
		The Hidden History of Signs
	Ahmed’s Standpoint Phenomenology
		A Situated Insight
		Achievement
		Inverted Privilege
	References
Art as Standpoint Method
	The Experience of Wonder in Art
		The “Promethean” View
		Art, Truth, and Strife
		Creators and Preservers
	Feminist Art—How Art Can Be Situated
	Existential Eva
		The Absurd
		The Insight of Hesse’s Work
		Situated Insight: Conceptual Conflict of Woman + Artist
		A Complicated Achievement
		Inverted Privilege
	References
Conclusion: Finding Out Who We  Are Together
	I Am a We
	The Phenomenological Community
	References
Index