The Sense of Politics: an Phenomenological Approximation

Abstract

Three steps are taken in this study. The first shows how phenomenology in Latin America, with an emphasis on Colombia, has had to turn attention to politics as a thing itself. In the second, political phenomenology that has the purpose of making explicit the senses of the political is thematized by resorting to the phenomenological method, both in describing the structures of the world of political life and in paying attention to the modes, or senses of the political, in which power unfolds. In the third, the question about the constitution of the world of political life is addressed and passivity-activity is related to the formation of political consciousness. Fundamentally, the thesis is held that politics is a structure of the world of life, although its development is not strictly limited to a region, but rather accompanies the manifestations of thought and human action between each other, in the becoming of power.