This paper aims to lay out the main tenets of Bernhard Waldenfels’s analyses of the experience of the alien and to confront the philosophical thesis underwriting them with a central insight stemming from Merleau-Ponty’s late philosophy. In the first section, I...
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Madalina Diaconu, “Tornadoes and the Poietics of Nature”, in: Lisa Giombini (ed), Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life, Bloomsbury, 2023.
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas. Lisa Giombini and Adrián Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned...
Mihai Ometiță, “Temptations of Purity: Phenomenological Language and Immediate Experience”, in: Florian Franken Figueiredo (ed.), Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929, Routledge, 2023.
The book explores the impact of manuscript remarks during the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein’s thought. Although its intention is to put the focus specifically on the manuscripts, the book is not purely exegetical. The contributors generate important new...
Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “The Eidetics of the Unimaginable. What a Phenomenologist can Learn from Ethnomethodology”, Human Studies, Volume 46, 2023.
This paper discusses the phenomenological method’s reliance on imaginative procedures in view of ethnomethodological research. While ethnomethodology has often been seen in continuity with Alfred Schütz’ phenomenological sociology, it mainly parts ways with...
Ion Copoeru, “Die Funktion der Analogie in der phänomenologischen Konstitutionsproblematik”, in: Dietmar Koch, Alina Noveanu, Niels Weidtmann (Hg.), Analogie. Neuere Auseinandersetzungen mit einem philosophischen Schlüsselphänomen, Alber, 2023.
Die Analogie (lat. proportio) ist für die Antike das erkenntnistheoretische Prinzip par excellence. Platon nennt sie das „schönste Band“, das den Kosmos zusammenhält. Für Aristoteles sollen Analogien zwischen verschiedenen Arten und Gattungen ein besseres Verständnis...
Virgil Ciomoş, “Das Physische, physiologische und analogische in der aristotelischen Beschreibung der Sinneswahrnehmung”, in: Dietmar Koch, Alina Noveanu, Niels Weidtmann (Hg.), Analogie. Neuere Auseinandersetzungen mit einem philosophischen Schlüsselphänomen, Alber, 2023.
Die Analogie (lat. proportio) ist für die Antike das erkenntnistheoretische Prinzip par excellence. Platon nennt sie das „schönste Band“, das den Kosmos zusammenhält. Für Aristoteles sollen Analogien zwischen verschiedenen Arten und Gattungen ein besseres Verständnis...
Nicolae Turcan, “The Phenomenology of Prayer and the Relationship between Phenomenology and Theology”, Religions 14(1), 2023.
The present article analyzes the relationship between phenomenology and theology, starting from some examples of the phenomenology of prayer. First, the article presents the phenomenology of prayer in the writings of phenomenologists such as Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves...
Cristian Ciocan, “Witnessing as an Existential Phenomenon”, Laval théologique et philosophique, Volume 79, Number 1, 2023.
In this article, I propose an exploration of the phenomenon of testimony. I argue that the phenomenological viewpoint makes possible an integrative approach to testimony, understood as a phenomenon that engages the entire existential structure of the subject,...
Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Critical Theory and Phenomenology: Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives (Springer, 2023)
This book outlines the most important points of intersection between early phenomenology and critical theory. It develops extensive analyses’ of specific instruments of the phenomenological method such as eidetic intuition and the procedures of genetic phenomenology. ...
Lucian Ionel, “Forms of Sensibility, or: Hegel on Human Capacities”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2023
In his Philosophy of Mind, Hegel treats human sensibility differently in the sections on anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. With the recent revival of Hegel’s work, there has been a lively debate about how to understand the progression from more primitive to...
Cristian Ciocan, Violență și animalitate. Explorări fenomenologice (Spandugino, 2022)
"Cartea de față excelează în multe privințe. Din câte știu, este singura care, în spațiul nostru cultural, aprofundează atât de riguros și comprehensiv problematica violenței prin raportare constantă la fenomenul mai vast al animalității. Cristian Ciocan, bine...
Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “Film as Social Visibility”, in: Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten und Hanna Prenzel (Hg.), Precarity in European Film (De Gruyter, 2022)
One cannot properly assess discourses on social misery in recent Eastern Euro-pean cinema without first taking note of the fact that filmic depictions of them are disproportionately scarce compared to the extent of the phenomenon itself. Keeping in mind that countries...