This paper discusses Hegel's conception of self-consciousness in the fourth chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit. It argues that Hegel articulates self-consciousness as a living being's capacity to conceive of itself in light of the life-form it instantiates. I...
Drawing a clear line between phenomenology and theology remains a challenging endeavor. This article has two parts: The first one argues that, from a methodological point of view, there is a need for a theo-phenomenology, a phenomenology which acknowledges religious...
Delia Popa: "Under Interpellation: Phenomenology, Anthropology and Politics": In: Peter Šajda (ed.), Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures (Brill, 2020) How do we become subjects and what is the relationship between subjectivity and otherness? How are we...
Human Studies, Volume 43, issue 2, July 2020: Special Section on The Modalizations of Violence Towards a Multi-modal Phenomenological Approach of Violence – Cristian Ciocan The Question of Violence Between the Transcendental and the Empirical Field: The Case of...
The impact of aesthetics is increasing again. For today’s scholars, aesthetic theories are a significant companion and contribution in studying and ana-lysing cultural phenomena and production. Today’s scene of aesthetics is more global than what it is in most...
Violence is a pervasive dimension of our individual and social existence. No one can deny such an evidence, precisely during these troubled times of social unrest. The unanimous feeling that we are living in an increasingly violent world, full of rage and anger, is...
Violence is signaled by a mark of discontinuity, interruption, rupture. The tripartite temporality of violence, with its strong focus on the present, points to the originary violence. Moreover, the violent event is structuring the order of the action sequences in an...
The volume »Environmental Ethics: Cross-cultural Explorations« places cross-cultural study at the center of inquiry. The cross-culturally rich explorations collected in this volume seek to critically examine some theoretical assumptions driving current debates in the...
The otherness of the other, considered as foreignness, is deeply intertwined with the problem of translation and with the one of morality. How can the two of them be brought together based on the work of Emmanuel Levinas? The main question which leads my analysis is...
This article aims to address, by means of a two-step analysis, the foundations of the relationship between history and psychoanalysis as “disciplinary practices” that deal with the past. In the first step, I examine the different relationships between history and...
What is the significance of our conceptual capacity in the constitution and articulation of meaning? The book pursues this question by bringing Hegel and Heidegger into conversation. The background is the conception of negativity shared by both authors, according to...
Immanuel Kant’s work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant’s work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight...