As different as Lisa Guenther (2019, 2021) and Johanna Oksala (2022) may be, they agree that the positing of transcendental structures of meaningful experience leads to oppressive normativity. Their contestation of transcendental structures reflects a trend in recent critical phenomenology that resists phenomenological appeals to transcendental structures in favor of quasi-transcendental ones....
This essay addresses a tension at the heart of the phenomenological method, namely the idea that phenomenology is both a method and an experience – it is both something we do and something we undergo. This dual understanding of the method generates questions as to how to best understand it. The above epigraphs are testament to the fact that the phenomenological reduction is not only something...