Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences of marginalization, oppression, and power in order to identify and transform common experiences of injustice that render "the familiar" a site of oppression for many. In 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, leading scholars present fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduce newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected. By centering historically marginalized perspectives, the chapters in this book breathe new life into the phenomenological tradition and reveal its ethical, social, and political promise. The volume will be an invaluable resource for teaching and research in continental philosophy; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; critical race theory; disability studies; cultural studies; and critical theory more generally.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Transformative Descriptions — Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon Part I 1. The Phenomenological Method — Duane Davis 2. Critical Phenomenology — Lisa Guenther Part II 3. Bad Faith — Lewis R. Gordon 4. Being and beings: the Ontological/Ontic Distinction — John D. Caputo 5. Being-in-itself, Being-for-itself, and Being-for-Others — Kris Sealey 6. Being-toward-Death — Mark Ralkowski 7. Borderlands and Border Crossing — Natalie Cisneros 8. Collective Continuance — Kyle Whyte 9. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness — Robert McRuer 10. Confiscated Bodies — George Yancy 11. Controlling Images — Patricia Hill Collins 12. Corporeal Generosity — Rosalyn Diprose 13. Decolonial Imaginary — Eduardo Mendieta 14. Durée — Alia Al-Saji 15. Epistemological Ignorance — Charles W. Mills 16. Eros — Tamsin Kimoto and Cynthia Willett 17. Eternal Feminine — Debra Bergoffen 18. Ethical Freedom — Shannon M. Mussett 19. The Face — Diane Perpich 20. The Flesh of the World — Donald A. Landes 21. Geomateriality — Ted Toadvine 22. The Habit Body — Helen A. Fielding 23. Heteronormativity — Megan Burke 24. Hometactics — Mariana Ortega 25. Horizons — David Morris 26. Imaginaries — Moira Gatens 27. Immanence and Transcendence — Shiloh Whitney 28. Intercorporeality — Scott Marratto 29. The Körper/Leib Distinction — Jenny Slatman 30. The Look — William McBride 31. Mestiza Consciousness — Elena Ruíz 32. Misfitting — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 33. Model Minority — Emily S. Lee 34. The Natural Attitude — Lanei M. Rodemeyer 35. The Normate — Joel Michael Reynolds 36. Ontological Expansiveness — Shannon Sullivan 37. Operative Intentionality — Jennifer McWeeny 38. Perceptual Faith — Jack Reynolds 39. Public Self/Lived Subjectivity — Linda Martín Alcoff 40. Queer Orientations — Lauren Guilmette 41. Queer Performativity — Sarah Hansen 42. The Racial Epidermal Schema — Axelle Karera 43. Racist Love — David Haekwon Kim 44. Sens/Sense — Keith Whitmoyer 45. Social Death — Perry Zurn 46. The "They" — Nancy J. Holland 47. Time/Temporality — Dorothea Olkowski 48. Trans Phenomena — Talia Mae Bettcher 49. Witnessing — Kelly Oliver 50. World-traveling — Andrea J. Pitts