Cristian CIOCAN

Executive President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology

Address: 49 Mihail Kogalniceanu Blvd., ap. 45, RO-050104, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: cristian.ciocan"at"phenomenology.ro

ACADEMIC FORMATION

• 2009: PhD in Philosophy at the University of Paris Sorbonne IV.
• 2006: PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest
• 1999-2000: MA in Philosophy at the University of Paris XII
• 1999-2000: MA in French Philosophy at the University "Babes-Bolyai" Cluj-Napoca
• 1999: BA in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest

POSITION

• 2010-2013: Post-doc Researcher at the University "Al. I. Cuza", Iasi
• 2009-present: Director of the "Alexandru Dragomir Institute for Philosophy"
• 2009-2010: Research Fellow of the New Europe College
• 2007-2008: Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany
• 2002-present: Member of the Center for Research in Phenomenology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (scientific secretary between 2002-2006)

PROJECT COORDINATOR

• Studia Phaenomenologica (Editor in chief)
• Acta Phaenomenologica, Humanitas Publishing House (Book Series coordinator)
• Newsletter of Phenomenology (Administrator and moderator)
• Three Romanian Philosophers: Promotion of the Romanian Philosophy abroad (Project coordinator)
• A Century with Levinas: Philosophy and Responsibility, International Colloquium, Bucarest,4-6 September 2006 (Project coordinator)
• Phenomenology and Theology, International Colloquium and Summer School, Sibiu-Sambata de Sus, 26 August - 5 September 2007 (Project coordinator)
• On-line Encyclopedia of Romanian Philosophy (Project coordinator)
• Newsletter of Romanian Philosophy (Project coordinator)

MEMBERSHIP

• 2009: Member of the Editorial Board of Symposium. Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
• 2008: Member of Ad Astra (Association of the Romanian Scholars and Scientists)
• 2008: Member of the Humboldt-Club Romania
• 2008: Correspondent for Romania of Collège International de Philosophie (Paris)
• 2008-present: President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology
• 2007: Member and correspondent for Romania of SIREL (Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas)
• 2006: Member of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology
• 2002: Founding Member of the Center for Research in: Phenomenology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
• 2000-2008: Vice-President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology
• 2000: Founding Member of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology

FIELDS OF INTEREST

• German and French Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Ancient Greek Philosophy

AWARDS

• 2009: "In hoc signo vinces" award for research excellence, awarded by The National University Research Council (CNCSIS), Romania.

RESEARCH GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2008-2009: Return Fellowship accorded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Researcher at the Center for Research in: Phenomenology, University of Bucharest.
• 2006-2008: Roman Herzog Fellowship accorded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Research fellow at the University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany.
• 2005: Global Supplementary Grant, accorded by Open Society Institute, research studies at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne.
• 2002-2005: French Governmental Scholarship accorded by Embassy of France in: Romania; research studies at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne.
• 2000 (February-June): Socrates Scholarship, accorded by the University Babes-Bolyai of Cluj; research studies at the University of Paris XII Val de Marne.

PUBLICATIONS
Books

1. Ciocan C., Hansel G., Levinas Concordance, Dordrecht, Springer, 2005, 951 p. ISBN: 978-1-4020-4124-2.
2. Ciocan C., Moribundus sum. Heidegger si problema mortii, Bucuresti, Humanitas, 2007, 404 p., ISBN 978-973-50-1552-7.

Editions

1. (2011) Ciocan C., Ferencz-Flatz C. (eds.), Concepts of Tradition in: Phenomenology, Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. XI (2011), Bucharest, Humanitas, 404 p. ISBN 978-973-50-3277-7
2. (2010) Ciocan C., Popa D., Ciomos V. (eds.), Phenomenology and Psychology, Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. X (2010), Bucharest, Humanitas, 432 p. ISBN 978-973-50-2820-6.
3. (2009) Ciocan C. (ed.), Philosophical Concepts and Religious Metaphors: New Perspectives on Phenomenology and Theology,Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009, 286 p., ISBN: 978-973-1997-30-8 (paperback), ISBN: 978-973-1997-31-5 (ebook).
4. (2009) Ciocan C., Hatem J., Kuhn R. (ed.), Michel Henry's Radical Phenomenology — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. IX (2009), Bucharest, Humanitas, 550 p. ISBN 978-973-50-2553-3.
5. (2008) Ciocan C., Popa D. (ed.), Phenomenology and Literature — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. VIII (2008), Bucharest, Humanitas, 480 p., ISSN 1582-5647
6. (2007) Ciocan C., Chvatík I. (ed.), Jan Patocka and the European Heritage — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. VII (2007), Bucharest, Humanitas, 568 p. ISBN 978-973-50-1648-7.
7. (2007) Ciocan C., Lazea D. (ed.), Intentionalitatea de la Plotin: la Levinas: Metamorfozele unei idei, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2007, ISBN 9789738798069.
8. (2007) Ciocan C. (ed.): Emmanuel Levinas 100: Proceedings of the Centenary Conference, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2007, 350 p., ISBN 978-973-88632-8-6.
9. (2006) Ciocan C., Bozga A., Szigeti A. (ed.), A Century with Levinas: Notes on the Margin of his Legacy — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. VI (2006), Bucharest, Humanitas, 504 p. ISBN 978-973-50-1416-2.
10. (2005) Ciocan C., Lazea D, (ed.), Metamorfozele unei idei: Intentionalitatea de la Plotin la Levinas, Bucharest, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2005, 300 p.
11. (2005) Ciocan C. (ed.), Translating Heidegger's Sein: und Zeit — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. V (2005), Bucharest, Humanitas, 407 p. ISBN 973-50-1142-5.
12. (2004) Ciocan C., Balogh P. (eds.), The Ocean of Forgetting. Alexandru Dragomir, A Romanian Phenomenologist — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. IV (2004), nr. 3-4, Bucharest, Humanitas, 296 p., ISBN 973-50-0979-X.
13. (2004) Ciocan C., Cercel G. (eds.): Varia. Issues on Brentano, Husserl and Heidegger — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. IV (2004), nr. 1-2, Bucharest, Humanitas, 244 p. ISSN: 1582-5647.
14. (2003) Ciocan C., Cercel G., Bozga A., Copoeru I. (ed.), Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Chiasm and Logos — Studia Phaenomenologicavol. III (2003) nr. 3-4, 400 p., Bucharest, Humanitas, ISSN: 1582-5647
15. (2003) Ciocan C., Cercel G., Tanasescu I., Popescu V. (ed.), The School of Brentano and Husserlian Phenomenology — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. III (2003) nr. 1-2, 312 p., Bucharest, Humanitas, ISSN: 1582-5647.
16. (2002) Ciocan C., Cercel G. (ed.), Varia. Issues on Husserl, Fink and Schütz — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. II (2002), nr. 1-2, 248 p., Bucharest, Humanitas, ISSN: 1582-5647.
17. (2002) Ciocan C., Cercel G. (ed.), In memoriam Hans-Georg Gadamer — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. II (2002), nr. 3-4, 320 p., Bucharest, Humanitas, ISSN: 1582-5647.
18. (2001) Ciocan C., Cercel G. (ed.), The Early Heidegger — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. I (2001), nr. 3-4, 504 p., Bucharest, Humanitas, ISSN: 1582-5647.
19. (2001) Ciocan C., Cercel G. (ed.), Heidegger and Theology — Studia Phaenomenologica vol. I (2001) nr. 1-2, 450 p., Bucharest, Humanitas, ISSN: 1582-5647.

ARTICLES / STUDIES

1. Ciocan C. (2012): „Le problème de la corporéité chez le jeune Lévinas”, in: Les Etudes Philosophiques (forthcoming 2012)
2. Ciocan C. (2012): "Emmanuel Levinas", in: Vincenzo Costa & Antonio Cimino (ed.), Storia della fenomenologia (Carocci, 2012)
3. Ciocan C. (2011): „Comprendre et sens: La genèse ontologique du langage dans l’analytique du Dasein”, in: Revue Philosophique de Louvain 109(3), 2011, 527-551.
4. Ciocan C. (2011): „ Heidegger si stiintele. Cazul biologiei”, in: Revista de Filosofie vol. LVIII (2011), nr. 5-6, p. -, ISSN: 0034-8260.
5. Ciocan C. (2011), „La genèse du problème de la mort dans la pensée du jeune Heidegger”, in: S.-J. Arrien, S, Camilleri (ed.), Le jeune Heidegger 1909-1926 , Paris, Vrin, 2011, p. 230-250.
6. Ciocan C. (2010): „Philosophical Developments in: Romania in: the last Decade (1998-2008)”, in: D. Ginev (Hg.), Die Geisteswissenschaften im europäischen Diskurs. Zweiter Band: Osteuropa. Innsbruck-Wien, StudienVerlag, 2010, p. 104-119.
7. Ciocan C. (2010): "Levinas and the Problem of Embodiment", în: Hanna B. Gerl-Falkovitz, René Kaufmann, Hans R. Sepp (Hg.), Europa und seine Anderen: Emmanuel Levinas - Edith Stein: - Jozef Tischner, Thelem, 2010, pp. 253-264.
8. Ciocan C. (2010): „Geneza ideii de viata factica in scrierile tânarului Heidegger”, in: Hermeneia 10 (2010), p. 7-18
9. Ciocan C. (2010): "Heidegger si fenomenologia vietii religioase", in: Revista de Filosofie vol. LVII (2010), nr. 1-2, p. -,
10. Ciocan C. (2010): „Le problème de la mort dans les Beiträge zur Philosophie (1936-1939)”, in: Revue Philosophique de Louvain 108(2), 2010, 313-333.
11. Ciocan C. (2010): „Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom”, in: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, ISSN 0007-1773, Volume 41 - Number 1 - January 2010, 64-77
12. Ciocan C. (2010): "Mort et vérité : Heidegger et le problème de la certitude", in: Philosophie (Paris, Editions de Minuit),  no. 105 (2010), p. 52-63.
13. Ciocan C. (2010): „La finitude de l'existence chez Martin Heidegger dans l'entrelacement du comprendre et de l'affection”, in: Meta: Research in: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, vol. II, nr. 2. p. 457-480
14. Ciocan C. (2010): "Heidegger et la mort de l'autre", in: Cercle Herméneutique 13-14 (2009/2010), p. 127-140
15. Ciocan C. (2009): „The Problem of Embodiment in the Early Writings of Emmanuel Levinas”, in: Levinas Studies. An Annual Review vol. 4 (2009), 1-20, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press.
16. Ciocan C. (2009): "Notes sur l’évolution du problème de la mort dans la pensée de Heidegger après Sein: und Zeit (1931-1935)", in: Synthesis philosophica, ISSN: 0352-7875, vol. 48, issue 2 (2009) 297-315
17. Ciocan C. (2009): „Heidegger, la mort et la totalité”, in: Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, vol. 134 (2009), nr. 2, pp. 291-309, Paris, P.U.F., ISSN 0035-3833.
18. Ciocan C. (2009): „Qu’est-ce qu’un Existenzial?”, in: Heidegger Studies, vol. 25 (2009), p. 191-216, Berlin, Duncker und Humblot.
19. Ciocan C. (2009), „Heidegger, l’attente de la parousie et l’être pour la mort”, in: Ciocan C. (ed.), Philosophical Concepts and Religious Metaphors: New Perspectives on Phenomenology and Theology, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009, pp. 179-193.
20. Ciocan C. (2009), „Le phénomène de la vie entre la réflexion philosophique et l’expérience religieuse”, in: M. Neamtu and B. Tataru-Cazaban (eds.), Memory, Humanity, and Meaning. Selected Essays in: Honor of Andrei Plesu’s Sixtieth Anniversary, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009, p. 393-407, ISBN: 978-973-1997-27-8.
21. Ciocan C. (2008): „The Question of the Living Body in: Heidegger’s Analytic of Dasein”, in: Research in: Phenomenology 38 (2008), nr. 1, p. 72-89, Leiden, Brill, ISSN 0085-5553, Online ISSN: 1569-1640.
22. Ciocan C. (2008): „Philosophy without Freedom: Constantin: Noica and Alexandru Dragomir”, in: I. Copoeru & H.-R. Sepp (ed.), Phenomenology 2005. vol. III: Selected Essays from Euro-Mediterranean Area, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2008, p. 33-49, ISBN 978-973-88632-0-0.
23. Ciocan C. (2008): „Emmanuel Levinas et sa reception en Roumanie”, in: C. Ciocan (ed.), Emmanuel Levinas 100: Proceedings of the Centenary Conference. Bucharest, September 2006, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2008, p. 9-17, ISBN 978-973-88632-8-6
24. Ciocan C. (2008): „Les repères d’une symétrie renversée: La phénoménologie de la mort entre Heidegger et Lévinas”, in: C. Ciocan (ed.), Emmanuel Levinas 100: Proceedings of the Centenary Conference. Bucharest, September 2006, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2008, p. 241-278, ISBN 978-973-88632-8-6
25. Ciocan C. (2008): „Affection (Befindlichkeit)”, „Angoisse (Angst)”, „Corporéité (Leiblichkeit)”, „Être-avec (Mitsein)”, „Être pour la mort (Sein: zum Tode)”, „Le on (das Man)”, in: A. Beaulieu (ed.), Abécédaire de Martin: Heidegger, Mons, Sils Maria, 2008, pp. 9-11,  22-24, 47-49, 80-82, p. 156-158,
26. Ciocan C. (2008): „Heidegger, la polysémie de la vie et son histoire”, in: I. Copoeru, A. Schnell (ed.), Recherches phénoménologiques actuelles en Roumanie et en France, Hildesheim, Olms, 2006, p. 85-106, ISBN : 3-487-13263-X.
27. Ciocan C. (2007): „Jean-Paul Sartre et la critique du problème heideggérien de la mort”, in: N. Tambourgi-Hatem (ed.), Sartre sans frontières, Beyrouth, Université Saint-Joseph, p. 47-78, ISBN 9953-455-76-7.
28. Ciocan C. (2006): „Note asupra problematicii mortii la Heidegger si Scheler”, in: Revista de Filosofie vol. LIII (2006), nr. 3-4, p. 73-92, ISSN: 0034-8260.
29. Ciocan C. (2006): „Heidegger et l’énigme de la vie: entre l’épiphanie et son refus”, in: Revue Roumaine de Philosophie vol. 50 (2006), p. 215-240, ISSN 1220-5400; ISSN 0035-4031.
30. Ciocan C. (2005): „Critica lui Heidegger la adresa lui Husserl: preluarea intentionalitatii la nivelul vietii factice”, in: Ciocan C., Lazea D. (ed.), Metamorfozele unei idei: Intentionalitatea de la Plotin: la Levinas, Editura Universitatii din: Bucuresti, 2005, p. 137-152 [republished in: Ciocan C., Lazea D. (eds.), Intentionalitatea de la Plotin: la Levinas: Metamorfozele unei idei, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2007, ISBN 978-973-87980-6-9, p. 161-179].
31. Ciocan C. (2005): „Jean-Paul Sartre si critica problemei heideggeriene a mortii”, in: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, seria Philosophia nr. 1/2005, p. 67-82, ISSN 1221-8138.
32. Ciocan C. (2005): „La phénoménologie en Roumanie”, in: Alter. Revue de Phénoménologie (Paris) vol. 13 (2005), p. 291-297, ISBN 2-9522374-1-7.
33. Ciocan C. (2004): „Les repères d’une symétrie renversée: La phénoménologie de la mort entre Heidegger et Lévinas”, in: Alter. Revue de Phénoménologie (Paris) vol. 12 (2004), pp. 313-339, ISBN 2-952237-40-9.
34. Ciocan C. (2004): „Fenomenologia dispozitiilor afective: Heidegger despre plictis”, in: Revista de Filosofie vol. LI (2004), nr. 5-6, p. 653-671, ISSN: 0034-8260.
35. Ciocan C. (2003): „Sur le concept de pulsion (Trieb) chez Heidegger”, in: Cheung Chan-Fai, Ivan Chvatik, I. Copoeru, L. Embree, J. Iribarne, H.-R. Sepp (ed.), Essays in: Celebration of the Founding of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations, web-Published at www.o-p-o.net, 2003.

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