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The Institute for Theory of the HGB Leipzig and the Institute for Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Leipzig University invite Prof Dr Thomas Bedorf to give a lecture.

Political phenomenology - like all phenomenological thinking - is based on experience. In experiences, experiences do something to us. They are made in situations that characterise the horizons of possibility of meaningful references to the world. The situatedness of the respective spaces of experience also reveals the limits of possibilities, i.e. socially and culturally generated exclusions and discriminations. In turn, we can take a political stance on the situatedness, adopt an attitude. The positions that can be taken in this way relate reflexively to situatedness, but do not simply arise from the situations. There remains a "situational difference" for which we must take political responsibility.