ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter of this part will discuss the role of the theory of the lifeworld in the historical development of political approaches in phenomenology. The phenomenological perspective on everyday intersubjective relationships allowed for a new way of understanding sociality, political institutions, and political conflicts. This led to a phenomenological view on the microstructures of everyday political experiences that allowed thinkers to consider how and through which practices subjects could become political actors. Furthermore, the philosophers covered here offered methodological approaches that were taken up and further developed on an interdisciplinary basis. This chapter therefore aims to show how the phenomenological view of relations within which subject positions are produced profoundly shaped new ways of thinking about the relevance of the public sphere as a political existential in the 1950s by opening up new and unexpected perspectives.
