Latest Publications of Our Members

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...

This collective volume aims at contributing to an in depth understanding of the  relationship between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, drawing on research that renews  and complements the area of discussion opened by recent publications on this interdisciplinary...

Pre-theoretical experience and the lifeworld are traditionally seen as a key reference for phenomenology. In the present paper I intend to point out their relevance for critical theory as well. To this extent, I start off with a brief overview of phenomenological...

This article seeks to provide a phenomenological inquiry into schizophrenia through which I propose to bring to the fore the  mental violence  exercised against the self in the case of a psychotic patient. My main aim is to show that a phenomenological analysis of...

In the world we live in, the presence of violence is undeniable: its phenomenal field spreads from extreme forms of destruction, which often set the bloody milestones of our history, to expressions entangled in our everyday life. Equally undeniable is the...