This text focuses on the potential conflict between the emancipatory function of communicative politics and the control effects that derive from communications, and discusses its relationship to the politics of liberation, democracy and market economy.

This text focuses on the potential conflict between the emancipatory function of communicative politics and the control effects that derive from communications, and discusses its relationship to the politics of liberation, democracy and market economy.

The objective of this book is to provide a methodology and a theoretical paradigm based on Marx's sensuous universal and Merleau-Ponty's corporeal intentionality. It will serve the humanities and social sciences as a means for founding inquiry on concrete experience. Readers will find that the book is not a repackaging of Marx and phenomenology, but rather, it bears an internal critique of the enterprise. The authors' contribution is to ground the sensuous universal as the science of experience that is required by the Marxian project, as well as by the new phenomenology of world theorising.