ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a phenomenology of plurality by introducing Hannah Arendt's work into debates taking place in the phenomenological tradition. It accomplishes a phenomenological and ontological clarification of the concept of plurality. The chapter demonstrates that actualizing plurality in a space of appearances is the phenomenon that lies at the heart of Arendt's famous conception of "the political". It provides the most basic ontological and phenomenological insights of what it means to exist in the plural, and thus, of political existence. The chapter presents a philosophically ambitious introduction to Arendt that repositions her as a phenomenologist belonging to the transformative generation coming after Husserl and Heidegger and moving this tradition forward with her paradigm of plurality. It also demonstrates that phenomenology's core concepts such as appearance, experience, intentionality, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and world are politicized and transformed through the paradigm of plurality.
