My paper aims at laying out the main tenets of Patočka's unusual and highly provocative position with regard to the question of history, drawing essentially on his Heretical Essays on the Philosophy of History, while also gathering insights from other works such as...
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Larisa Cercel & Marco Agnetta (eds.) Text Performances and Cultural Transfer / Textperformances und Kulturtransfer (Zeta Books, 2021)
As is well known, a text is a speech act, namely the realisation and initiation of linguistic potentialities. Although a text can be described as an independent entity, it only becomes effective in concrete situations of use. One and the same linguistic product can...
Larisa Cercel et alii (ed.) Engaging with Translation. New Readings of George Steiner’s After Babel (Zeta Books, 2021)
George Steiner was a peerless scholar of literature and, with After Babel, first published in 1975, he made an enormously significant contribution to the study of translation. The present volume assembles a dozen distinguished scholars of translation, all of whom...
Ion Tănăsescu – Psychologie, Seiendes, Phantasie bei Franz Brentano (De Gruyter 2021)
The book analyses Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint as a methodological work and as a contribution to the positive philosophy of the 19th century. It alsomaintains that empirical psychology Brentano's is a project independent of his descriptive psychology. In...
Paul Marinescu, Cristian Ciocan (eds), From Witnessing to Testimony (Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume 21/ 2021)
Paul Marinescu and Cristian Ciocan, Introduction: From Witnessing to Testimony [OPEN ACCESS] Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Testimony and Engagement: On the Four Elements of Witnessing Abstract: In order to develop a hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis of testimony,...
Nicolae Turcan, “Liturgy and Apophaticism”, Religions 12(9), 2021
The Orthodox liturgy is a religious phenomenon that can be analyzed phenomenologically and theologically alike, given the emphasis that both phenomenology and Orthodox theology place on experience. By proposing the Kingdom of God instead of the natural world without...
Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “Gesten als Okkasionelle Bedeutungserfüllungen”, Husserl Studies, 2021
This paper addresses the question of occasional expressions, as discussed by Husserl in his First and Sixth Logical Investigation in relation to the problem of gestures. It aims to show that gestures are intimately related to the use of occasional expressions and have...
Laura T. Ilea, Politiques du désir. Pour une condition relationnelle (Mimésis, 2021)
Les Politiques du désir plaident pour la force du questionnement qui ne croit pas aux solutions radicales. Ni le pardon, ni la réconciliation facile, ni le dialogue flamboyant ou belligérant. Mais la conscience que, quoiqu'on fasse, on est face aux Érinyes, aux...
Maria Gyemant: Husserl et Freud, un héritage commun (Classiques Garnier, 2021)
Deux nouvelles pensées du sujet naissent au XXe sií¨cle : la phénoménologie et la psychanalyse. Partageant un míªme domaine, elles évoluent en parallí¨le sans jamais se croiser. Pour comprendre leur rapport, nous devons donc remonter í leur source commune : la...
Larisa Cercel et alii (eds.) Cognition and Comprehension in Translational Hermeneutics (Zeta Books, 2021)
The fundamental aim of translation studies in general is to better understand the practice of translation. Insofar as hermeneutics can be regarded as an approach to understanding the nature of understanding itself (and in this it finds alliances with phenomenology),...
Paul Marinescu – “The Duty of Memory Revisited: Ricoeur’s Contribution to a Crisis in French Historiography”, Human Studies, 2021
ABSTRACT: The relationship between memory and history, which has preoccupied historiography and the philosophy of history since the middle of the nineteenth century, took a particular course in France at the end of the millennium. The forms this relationship took in...
Mădălina Diaconu, “Rescaling the Weather Experience: From an Object of Aesthetics to a Matter of Concern”, Environmental Values, 2021
Rescaling the Weather Experience: From an Object of Aesthetics to a Matter of Concern Author: Diaconu, Madalina Source: Environmental Values Publisher: White Horse Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327121X16141642287656 This paper analyses the cluster of...