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Remus Breazu, “Sense-Bestowal and Sense-Withdrawal”, Human Studies, 2025. As is well known, sense-bestowal (Sinngebung) is a fundamental concept in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. Husserl considers that everything, including nonsense or absurdity, is a result...

Bejinariu, Alexandru, "A Formal-Indicative Response to the Question of the Alien". Human Studies 48, 299–319 (2025). One of the central problems of any phenomenological account concerning alienness is that the phenomenon itself seems to constantly avoid both our gaze...

Alexandru Bejinariu, Remus Breazu, Cristian Ciocan, “Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience: Editors’ Introduction”, Human Studies, 2025. This introduction to the special issue Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience explores the complex relationship between...

Roxana Baiasu, Lorna Collins, "Transformative Paradoxes of Sense-Making in Madness", Iride, Filosofia e discussione pubblica, 1/2025.  At the heart of our mental health vulnerability there is an openness to suffering which can close off meaning and generate a chasm of...

Roxana Baiasu, Guilherme Messas, "Contextualising mental health: interdisciplinary contributions to a new model for tackling social differences and inequalities in mental healthcare". Philosophical Psychology, 38(1), 2025. Many classical approaches in the area of...

Susan Krantz Gabriel, Ion Tănăsescu  (eds.), Franz Brentano and the 19th Century Idea of Philosophy as a Science: Upon the Sesquicentennial of Franz Brentano’s Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint, De Gruyter, 2025.  The idea of philosophy as science expands...

Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Paul Marinescu (eds.), The Phenomenology of Testimony, Brill, 2025. Testimony is a central topic in contemporary philosophy, with a vast array of disciplines, from epistemology to testimonial literature, demonstrating considerable interest in...

Alexandru Bejinariu, Remus Breazu, Cristian Ciocan (eds.), Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience. Special issue of Human Studies. A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Springer, 2025. This special issue of Human Studies aims to address the...

Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Delia Popa (eds.), Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life, Springer, 2025. Starting from the hypothesis that all human forms of life have a political dimension – be it clearly expressed or hidden, conscious or unconscious – this volume...

Delia Popa, "Imagination, Sense-Formation, and the Problem of Truth", International Journal of Social Imaginaries, 2025. If we agree with Enzo Paci that history is the progressive self-revelation and self-realization of what is hidden in human life, imagination has a...