About Romanian Society for Phenomenology
The Romanian Society for Phenomenology was founded in 2000 to promote research in phenomenology, coordinate the development of this discipline in Romania, and help constitute a specialized phenomenological community in Romania.
The Society is a founding member of the Organization of the Phenomenological Organizations.
OUR PROJECTS
The aim of the society is to promote the phenomenology in Romania, by organizing conferences, seminars, and workshops, and by stimulating a professional community of researchers. The main publication of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology is the international yearbook Studia Phaenomenologica, founded in 2001.
Latest Events & News
Cristian Bodea, Delia Popa (eds.) – Describing the Unconscious. Phenomenological Perspectives on the Subject of Psychoanalysis (Zeta Books, 2020)
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...
Christian Ferencz-Flatz – Zur Funktion des Vortheoretischen bei Adorno Der Erfahrungsbegriff der Kritischen Theorie und die Phänomenologie (Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2019)
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...
Catalina Condruz – Is Mental Illness a Form of Violence Against the Self? Notes on Ego Disintegration in Schizophrenia (Human Studies, 2019)
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...
Cristian Ciocan & Paul Marinescu – Introduction: On Conflict and Violence (Studia Phaenomenologica, 2019)
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...
Delia Popa – Entre réversibilité et réverbération. Une approche phénoménologique de la violence sociale (Studia Phaenomenologica, 2019)
How can phenomenology help address the problem of social violence? Can phenomenology provide an adequate description of its essence? Is the phenomenological method able to deepen and transform its comprehension? The paper is an attempt to answer these questions...
Mădălina Guzun – Briser le silence: Le déploiement de la langue comme traduction du silence en son chez Martin Heidegger (Studia Phaenomenologica, 2019))
The aim of the present article is to offer a new interpretation of Heidegger’s account of the unfolding of language by analyzing the notion of Geläut der Stille, “sounding gathering of silence.” Taking as a starting point the experience of silence described by Stefan...