ABSTRACT
This paper argues that political phenomenology can be conceptualized in three ways: Its object is either political experience, political ontology, or political episteme. In the first case, political phenomenology operates via eidetic analysis to identify a series of phenomena such as freedom, power, or conflict as basic conditions of political action. In the second case, political phenomenology uses existential analysis to uncover the structural conditions and normative foundations of the political sphere. In the last case, political phenomenology applies genetic analysis to understand the broader space of experience itself as the result of an institutional event. Taken together, the phenomenology of experience, ontology and episteme uncover a genuine phenomenological account to the realm of the political.
