ABSTRACT
This text introduces the last part of the handbook. It shows how many authors use phenomenology to reflect on contemporary developments in political thought and contemporary political issues. Phenomenology is particularly suited to taking a situated approach to political thought. It starts from particular experiences of differently situated persons: socially, locally, economically, etc. Furthermore, it is a deeply relational field of thought. The experiencing subject is always thought of in relation to a world and others. At the same time, this also necessitates situating phenomenology itself politically. This does not just mean dealing with the political views of some phenomenological thinkers. Rather, it means confronting universalisms and essentialisms that both current phenomenological reflections and other critical and political theories are challenging. The text uses this double move of phenomenology as situating and in needing to be situated itself to present the contributions and issues discussed in the last part.
