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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...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...