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
Mădălina Guzun, “Logos as a Middle Ground between Physis and Alētheia in Heidegger’s Reading of Heraclitus”, in: La filosofia futura n. 20/2023: Sull’origine del filosofare. Heidegger, Severino e i Primi Pensatori.
La filosofia futura n. 20/2023 Sull’origine del filosofare. Heidegger, Severino e i Primi Pensatori Informazioni A cura di Nicoletta Cusano, Chris O. Ioniță Collana: La filosofia futura 2023, 104 pp. ISBN: 9791222309606 [LINK]
Maria Gyemant, “Unconscious Emotions and the Limits of Phenomenology: Husserl, Lipps and Freud”. Human Studies (2024).
Can an emotion be unconscious? The aim of this paper is to answer this difficult question. Is it possible for an emotion to be a fully lived experience and at the same time remain unknown to the subject? Or, in clearer terms, how can one have a feeling without...
Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “The Limits to Owning One’s Behavior: Husserl’s Phenomenology of Involuntary Action”, Human Studies (2024).
This paper focuses on a lesser-known aspect of Husserl’s theory of action, namely his understanding of “involuntary behavior,” as developed especially in the recently published manuscripts gathered in Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins. Specifically, I follow the...
Cristian Ciocan, “Violence and the Limits of Experience”. Human Studies (2024).
The aim of this article is to explore the question of the limits of experience in light of the phenomenology of violence. I begin by emphasizing the specificity of the phenomenological concept of pre-theoretical experience, in contrast with the traditional concept of...
Remus Breazu, “Violence in mass-mediated images and memory. Phenomenological account of prosthetic memories”. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2024).
In this paper, I analyse Alison Landsberg’s concept of prosthetic memories from a phenomenological perspective. Prosthetic memory, while sharing similarities with both personal and collective memory, is neither exclusively personal nor strictly collective, emerging as...
Cristian Ciocan, “Violence, as a theme in phenomenology”, in: Nicolas de Warren, Ted Toadvine, (eds), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Springer, 2023
Although violence was not among the central topics of phenomenology in its initial phase, the outbreak of the First World War impacted greatly the self-understanding of many German philosophers affiliated to this movement. There is a rich material available (De Warren...