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Cassirer’s functionalist account of physical truth: object, measurement and technology Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Benedetta Spigola
In this paper I focus on Cassirer’s functionalist theory of truth in order to argue that the Positivistic theory of knowledge fails to explain how it is that physics provides us with truth-evaluable and reliably objective descriptions of the world. This argument is based on Cassirer’s idea that what the Positivistic theory of knowledge normally considers as the “factual” of physics is, in fact, unachievable
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Natural sciences, technology and foresight: an approach based on Ernst Cassirer’s symbol theory Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Joaquim Braga
As much as it is rooted in empirical facts, the concept of truth in natural sciences and technology has core dimensions marked by the sphere of the possible. As can be inferred from Cassirer’s symbol theory, this is, in both cultural forms, a structuring mode of their symbolic constitution and differentiation. But when the coupling of the two increases (as currently happens with the new pictorial forms
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Mathematical sciences as symbolic form: the objects and objectivity of science in Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of science and culture Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Jørgen Røysland Aarnes
In this paper, I explore how Cassirer’s early and mature epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of culture make up a coherent and comprehensive view of the mathematical sciences that is fruitful for understanding contemporary science. In Cassirer’s first systematic work, Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff, the mathematical sciences are understood through the concept of function. This
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Gerontological difference: Tracing the ontological generativity of aging after Heidegger Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Rasmus Dyring
The aim of this paper is to raise the question of aging as an ontological question. In critical dialogue with Heidegger’s exploration of the question of being, the first half of the paper argues that fundamental ontology, due to the way it relies on a methodological operationalization of the ontological difference, will remain blind to the ontological generativity of the differences that aging makes
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From care to solidarity Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Anne O’Byrne
We face a crisis of elder care, and the language of care is part of the problem. Despite a sophisticated philosophical tradition of care thinking, we remain entangled in expectations of care as loving care, and these expectations hamper the worker/employer relations that are at the center of contemporary care. Turning to the language of solidarity helps us better understand care as work, helps build
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Ageing-in-the-world Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Pascal Massie, Mitchell Staude
Ageing brings together biological, personal, and social horizons. Attempts to reduce it or to privilege one of these dimensions over the others fail to fully capture the phenomenon. The temporality of ageing presents an irreducible complexity. It is the inextricable intertwinement of three temporalities, three rhythms on different scales: biological time, personal-narrative time, and historical time
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Care and resentment. An essay on moral temporality Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
Whereas caring is commonly perceived as a moral virtue or a socially beneficial ethical practice, resentment appears to represent its opposite. Advocates of care ethics have vehemently criticized the abstract and aloof nature of traditional ethical theories and argue that care ethics offers a perspective from which we may appreciate interpersonal sensitivity and responsiveness to individuals, per se
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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Hamed Movahedi
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition, an Ideal continuum, and the differential relations that constitute the Ideal imply the continuity of this field. But, Deleuze does not hesitate to formulate the same field by the affirmation of divergence (incompossibility) that can be regarded as a form of discontinuity
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Karl Löwith on the I–thou relation and interpersonal proximity Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Felipe León
Current research on second-person relations has often overlooked that this is not a new topic. Addressed mostly under the heading of the “I–thou relation,” second-person relations were discussed by central figures of the phenomenological tradition, including Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, but also quite extensively by much lesser-known authors, such as Karl Löwith, Ludwig Binswanger, and Semyon
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John Rogove and Pietro D’Oriano (eds.), Heidegger and his anglo-american reception: a comprehensive approach, cham: Springer Nature, 2022, 390 pp., ISBN: 978-3-031-05816-5 Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Mark Tanzer
In Heidegger and his Anglo-American Reception, John Rogove and Pietro D’Oriano have compiled nineteen essays discussing or displaying Heidegger’s influence on anglophone philosophy. The collection includes papers taking a pragmatist approach to the interpretation of Heidegger, as well as papers taking a continentalist approach. In this way, the editors hope to begin to overcome the mutual isolation
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Practical concepts and intentional understanding: on the lineage of beginning phenomenology Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Alessio Rotundo
The critique of pure sense data is a characteristic feature of contemporary philosophy, from Wittgenstein and Heidegger to Martha Nussbaum and Ernst Tugendhat. These authors variously call into question that the data of sensation should be taken as primordial. Other contemporary authors have responded to this general critique starting from considerations about the role of sensory states, often referred
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Questioning the boundary between “Us” and “Them” with Waldenfels and Derrida Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Lucia Angelino
Between what we call “us” and what we call “them”, a line must be drawn, which immediately becomes a contentious border, or a divide, that brings to the fore who “we” are, and that consigns to the background, or to the margin, those people who do not count as “us”. Wherever this border is traced — whether along the lines of existing nation-states, racial or linguistic communities, or political affiliations
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The perceived object in media-based empathy: applying Edith Stein’s concept of Wortleib Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Minna-Kerttu Kekki
The question of how other consciousnesses appear via media has forced us to re-think the classical phenomenological accounts of sociality. However, as the phenomenological account of empathy is very much centred around the perception of the other’s living body, it has faced challenges in discussing the empathic experience in media-based contexts, where we cannot perceive the other’s body, but something
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Touched by beauty: a qualitative inquiry into phenomenology of beauty Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Benedikte Kudahl, Tone Roald
Philosophy of aesthetics and beauty has traditionally prioritized the sense of vision while deprioritizing the more basic-bodily and thus less “noble” sense of touch. This paper examines bodily aspects of how beauty appears in the experience of visual art and motivates the view that touch is fundamental to such experiences. We appeal to Merleau-Ponty to show the relevance given to touch in his phenomenology
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The omnitemporality of idealities Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 James Sares
This article develops an interpretation and defense of Husserl’s account of the omnitemporality of idealities. I first examine why Husserl rejects the atemporality and temporal individuation of idealities on phenomenological grounds, specifically that these attributions prove countersensical in how they relate idealities to consciousness. As an alternative to these conceptions, I develop a two-sided
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Photography and evidence: reflections on the imagistic violence Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Paul Marinescu
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of imagistic violence by focusing—by means of a phenomenology open to dialogue with neighboring disciplines, from historiography to semiotics—on the particular case of photographs depicting atrocities, examples of photojournalism or images captured at crime scenes by forensic agents and presented as evidence during trials. To this end, I will
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The groundlessness of sense: a critique of Husserl’s idea of grounding Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Bernhard Waldenfels, Charles Driker-Ohren, Mohsen Saber
This article critiques Husserl’s idea of grounding through an exploration of his notion of the lifeworld. First, it sketches different senses of the lifeworld in the Crisis and explains in what sense it is taken to be a universal foundation of all sense-formation. Second, it criticizes Husserl’s idea of grounding and shows that it fails because the alleged foundation—namely, the lifeworld as a perceptual
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Gottesglaube as Glaubenstrotz. The concessive structure of the Christian religious attitude Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Emilio Vicuña, Roberto Rubio
The topic of the present reflection is Christian religious belief. Specifically, we will use Husserlian tools in order to examine the positional nature of this particular type of belief. We will be less interested in the question concerning the success conditions of this experience and more in its noetic structure. According to our proposal, to believe by faith supposes (although it is not exhausted
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Expectation and judgment: towards a phenomenology of discrimination Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Tris Hedges
In this paper, my aim is to develop a phenomenological understanding of discrimination from the perspective of the discriminator. Since early existential phenomenology, the phenomenon of discrimination has received a great deal of attention. While much of this work has focused on the experience of the discriminatee, recent scholarship has begun to reflect on the intentional structures on the side of
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Flourishing while withering: an explication and critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenology of aging Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Fredrik Svenaeus
This paper explores the process of aging from a phenomenological perspective. Supplementing the model of becoming old found in Simone de Beauvoir’s work with a phenomenology of human suffering and flourishing, it asks whether it is possible to lead a good life in the process of becoming old. Is it possible to flourish while experiencing bodily waning? Is it possible to flourish while experiencing the
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God becoming flesh, flesh becoming divine Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Luce Irigaray
What could be the meaning of Christianity on this side or beyond its most traditional transmission? This paper suggests that it could be an invitation to deify our flesh instead of despising it. Indeed, the God of Christianity does not remain out of our physical reach but is incarnate in a human body as a sensitive transcendence living among us on this Earth. One of the main challenges for Christians
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Entering the grey zone of aging between health and disease: a critical phenomenological account Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 K. Zeiler, A. Segernäs, M. Gunnarson
Phenomenological analyses of ageing and old age have examined themes such as alterity, finitude, and time, not seldom from the perspective of “healthy” aging. Phenomenologists have also offered detailed analyses of lived experiences of illness including lived experiences of dementia. This article offers a phenomenological account of what we label as entering the grey zone of aging between “healthy”
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An eyewitness account of Edmund Husserl and Freiburg phenomenology in 1923–24. Towards reclaiming the plurivocity of historical sources of the Phenomenological Movement Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Peter Andras Varga
The early phenomenologist József Somogyi was one of, if not the first to write a monograph specifically dedicated to the history of the nascent phenomenological philosophy. The two letters written by him during his stay in Freiburg in WS 1923/24, which are hereby published and discussed for the first time, are, similarly, of interest first due to the rare, valuable insight they can provide – when combined
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Jacques Derrida and Hans-Georg Gadamer, correspondence (1977–2000) Jacques Derrida, How right he was: Gadamer, my Cicerone (2002) Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire
What follows is an English translation of two documents pertaining to the Derrida-Gadamer encounter. The first one is the short correspondence between Jacques Derrida and Hans-Georg Gadamer that lasted from March 1977 to July 2000. The correspondence was written in German and French. The second one is the homage that Derrida wrote in honor of Gadamer in the wake of his passing in 2002. These two documents
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Beyond intersubjectivism: common mind and the multipolar structure of sociality after Husserl Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Emanuele Caminada
This article aims to examine sociality’s multipolar and intentional structure beyond an inter-subjectivist perspective; beyond the view that the social world consists of only subjects and their interaction. The article is divided into four sections. First, I present Benoist’s critique of mainstream inter-subjectivist accounts of phenomenology. Second, I introduce Husserl’s concept of Gemeingeist and
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Existential selfhood in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 B. Scot Rousse
This paper provides an interpretation of the existential conception of selfhood that follows from Merleau-Ponty’s account of perception. On this view, people relate to themselves not by “looking within” in acts of introspection but, first, by “looking without” at the field of solicitations in which they are immersed and, eventually, in Merleau-Ponty’s words, by “making explicit” the “melodic unity”
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Intercorporeality online: anchoring in sound Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Rachel Elliott
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Binding and axiomatics: Deleuze and Guattari’s transcendental account of capitalism Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Henry Somers-Hall
The aim of this paper is to develop a consistent reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s account of capitalism by taking seriously their use of Kant’s philosophy in formulating it. In Sect. 1, I will set out the two different roots of the term axiomatic in Deleuze and Guattari’s thought. The first of these is the axiomatic approach to formalising fields of mathematics, and the second the Kantian account
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On Heidegger’s conception of emotion, which is to say, Husserl’s conception of time: an analysis of Befindlichkeit and temporality Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Matthew Coate
Ostensibly, Heidegger’s notion of Befindlichkeit isn’t one of the really enigmatic concepts in his oeuvre—for everyone knows that on Heidegger’s account, this phenomenon, which bears at least some connection to what we normally call emotion, provides a basic disclosure of “the Dasein’s” worldly engagement. Nonetheless, there are enigmas here, given that Heidegger connects the phenomenon of Befindlichkeit
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“A sociality of pure egoists”: Husserl’s critique of liberalism Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Timo Miettinen
According to Husserl’s self-description, his phenomenological project was “completely apolitical.” Husserl’s phenomenology did not provide a political philosophy in the classical sense, a normative description of a functioning social order and its respective institutional structures. Nor did Husserl have much to say about the day-to-day politics of his time. Yet his reflections on community and culture
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Beyond the mere present: Husserl on the temporality of human and animal consciousness Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Yamina Venuta
My aim in this paper is to reconstruct Edmund Husserl’s views on the differences between human and animal consciousness, with particular attention to the experience of temporality. In the first section, I situate the topic of animal consciousness in the broader context of Husserl’s philosophy. Whereas this connection has been often neglected, I argue that a phenomenological analysis of non-human subjectivities
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Vocational life: personal, communal and temporal structures Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Sara Heinämaa
This paper offers a new philosophical account of vocations as deeply personal but at the same time also communal and generational forms of multimodal intending. It provides a reconstruction and a systematic development of Edmund Husserl’s scattered discussions on vocations. On these grounds, the paper argues that vocational life is a general human possibility and not determined by any set of material
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Husserl on the state: a critical reappraisal Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Thomas Szanto
What could a political phenomenology look like? Recent attempts to address this question under the rubric “critical phenomenology” have centered primarily around important issues such as the lived experience of marginalization and oppression or the ways in which power asymmetries or structural biases are internalized, habitualized, and embodied. In this paper, I will take a different route and test
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Empty satisfaction—a social phenomenology of late modern enjoyment Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Domonkos Sik
Phenomenological analyses of enjoyment are relatively rare; also, the few known attempts (e.g. Levinas) are elaborated in a transcendental fashion, without reflecting on the socio-historical constituents. The article aims at filling this gap by elaborating a social phenomenology of late modern enjoyment. Firstly, the experience is analysed with the help of general phenomenological descriptions: the
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Cultural appropriation: an Husserlian account Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Molly Brigid McGrath
This paper begins with a sketch of a few themes in the philosophy of property insofar as they relate to the concept of cultural appropriation. It then offers a survey of Edmund Husserl’s account of culture. These reflections put us in a better position to ask whether property ownership provides a suitable interpretative framework for acts of intercultural copying and influence. On the contrary, Husserl’s
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Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophical realism in Being and Nothingness versus Jan Patočka’s a-subjective phenomenology on the crucial question of the body Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Eric Pommier
Jean-Paul Sartre and Jan Patočka claim to go beneath the phenomenal correlation between the subject and the world discovered by Husserl in order to account for it from a more fundamental plane. Their going below the “universal a priori of correlation” allows them to describe it more thoroughly. But we wish to show that Sartre’s description remains dependent on a philosophical realism which prevents
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The “tuning-in” relationship in music and in ethics Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Robert Kirkman
In “Making Music Together: A Study in Social Relationship,” Alfred Schutz offers a phenomenological description of a structure he contends is at the root not only of shared musical meaning, but of human communication and social relations as such: the “tuning-in relationship.” The aim of what follows is to establish that this same structure is at the root of ethical relationships, which may shed some
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Augustine and Heidegger on Verticality and Everydayness Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Espen Dahl
The first part of the article examines how Augustine’s notion of the everyday is mediated by his mystical ascensions, which give him the sense of height against which everydayness appears as oriented downward or fallen. These are the coordinates that make up the fundamental verticality of Augustine’s view. Heidegger’s understanding of everydayness was influenced by Augustine, particularly its inherent
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From communication to communalization: a Husserlian account Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Patricia Meindl, Dan Zahavi
Husserl’s writings on sociality have received increasing attention in recent years. Despite this growing interest, Husserl’s reflections on the specific role of communication remain underexplored. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by reconstructing the various ways in which Husserl draws systematic connections between communication and communalization. As will become clear, Husserl’s analysis
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Community: a unified disunity? Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 John J. Drummond
The notion of community—a many that is one—is troubled in two respects: (1) On a theoretical level, given that there are many kinds of communities, what, despite their differences, do they share as communities? (2) On a practical level, communities in fact often manifest little unity riven, as they are, by factions and conflicts. After exploring the ways in which empathy as supplemented and complemented
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Time, moral and anti-moral: Améry and Levinas on historical responses to trauma Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Cynthia D. Coe
In this article I interpret Améry’s claims about the temporal dimension of trauma in the light of Levinas’s reflections on suffering and responses to suffering—and how both reject the temptation to generate narratives in which pain serves as a step toward transcendence and self-determination. That temptation finds support in Nietzsche’s critique of resentment, which identifies the refusal to forget
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Nietzsche’s turn: from nature as value-less to value-laden Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Megan Flocken
Nietzsche writes a preface to The Gay Science in 1886, four years after its first four books were in print. In this address, he explains that he has been ill and is in recovery. He diagnoses himself as having suffered from “romanticism.” Nietzsche warns that he will henceforth vent his malice on the sort of lyrical romantic sentimentalism from which he suffered. Nietzsche then undertakes to write an
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Exploring the philosophical concept of my death in the context of biology: the scholarly significance of the unknown Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Manabu Fukuda
Contemplating one’s own death is a core aspect in the history of Western philosophy. In the modern era, existential philosophy has inherited this tradition and established unique discussions on the concept of “my death,” resting on the premise that this concept is unapproachable via scientific inquiry. Conversely, biological research is essentially conducted within the scope of life phenomena, with
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The impurity of praxis: Arendt and Agamben Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Katarina Sjöblom
If politics is understood as a foundational and open-ended activity, a general problem that arises from such a framing concerns the question of how to sustain the possibility of continuous openings without converting action into permanence and closure. In this article, we approach this problematic by treating Hannah Arendt as an exemplary figure in the current of political thought that emphasizes the
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Difference and presence: Derrida and Husserl’s phenomenology of language, time, history, and scientific rationality Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Rudolf Bernet, Charles Driker-Ohren, Mohsen Saber
This article seeks to reconstruct and critically extend Jacques Derrida’s critique of Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. Derrida’s critique of Husserl is explored in three main areas: the phenomenology of language, the phenomenology of time, and the phenomenological constitution of ideal objects. In each case, Husserl’s analysis is shown to rest upon a one-sided determination of truth in
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Essentialism, historicity, and ethicalization: rethinking Husserl’s project of phenomenological theology Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Jianhao Zhou
Husserl’s conception of theology and God is a lesser noticed aspect in his phenomenological system. This paper is devoted to a return to Husserl’s text, reconstructing the implicit threads and essential features of his phenomenological theology. First, I will outline the general features of a phenomenology of religion and theology, arguing that it is not without historicity, which is not in conflict
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Emmanuel Alloa, Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media, trans. Nils F. Schott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Xiv + 391 pp. Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Thomas Pfau
This review of Emmanuel Alloa’s Looking through Images considers the author’s arguments with regard to their philosophical bearings and their significance for modern visual aesthetics. Particular attention is paid to the way that the traditions of Platonic and Aristotelian Realism are linked to modern phenomenological theory (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Marion). Alloa’s elegant and lucid exploration of
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The Resistance of Presence Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Emmanuel Falque, Andrew Sackin-Poll
In marked contrast to Husserlian “unities of sense” that structure consciousness around egoic ideal-meaning intention, contemporary phenomenology orders sense according to an excess of givenness – a surfeit of presence – that surpasses this intentional relation. But Emmanuel Falque argues that there is a resistance that precedes the phenomenological order of givenness and sense. Before the saturated
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Shannon M. Mussett: Entropic Philosophy: chaos, breakdown, and creation, Lanham: Roman & Littlefield, 2022, 203 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78,661-246-5 Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Drew M. Dalton
Shannon Mussett’s Entropic philosophy offers a creative and important new lens through which the history of philosophy and a number of contemporary ethical, social, and political problems can be read and interpreted. By exploring the concept of entropy not merely as a scientific certainty but as a “root metaphor” through which the inexorable finitude, fragility, and vulnerability of material reality
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Husserl on shared intentionality and normativity Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Alessandro Salice
The paper offers a systematic reconstruction of the relations that, in Husserl’s work, bind together our shared social world (“the spiritual world”) with shared intentionality. It is claimed that, by sharing experiences, persons create social reasons and that these reasons impose a normative structure on the social world. Because there are two ways in which persons can share experiences (depending
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The ethical night of libertinism: Beauvoir’s reading of Sade Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Anna Petronella Foultier
This paper examines Simone de Beauvoir’s reading of the eighteenth century writer and libertine Marquis de Sade, in her essay “Must we Burn Sade?”; a difficult and bewildering text, both in pure linguistic terms and philosophically. In particular, Beauvoir’s insistence on Sade as a “great moralist” seems hard to reconcile with her emphasis, in The Ethics of Ambiguity, on the interdependency of human
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Time’s entanglements: Beauvoir and Fanon on reductive temporalities Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Marilyn Stendera
Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon both argue that oppression fundamentally constrains the subject’s relationship to and embodied experience of time, yet their accounts of temporality are rarely brought together. This paper will explore what we might learn about the operation of different types of reductive temporality if we read Beauvoir and Fanon alongside each other, focusing primarily on the early
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Lifeworld art: on Husserl’s Crisis book and beyond Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Günter Figal
In the article I discuss Husserl’s conception of the Lifeworld as developed in his Crisis Book, in order to find out whether art can be especially illuminative in order to understand the Lifeworld and one’s own living in it. I draw a parallel between the sciences as discussed by Husserl as abstractions from the Lifeworld that offer a special view of what in the Lifeworld as such remains disclosed.
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Riddles of the body: Derrida and Hegel on corporeality and signs Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Sarah Horton
Proper attention to the theme of corporeality is crucial for understanding Derrida’s analysis of Hegel in “The Pit and the Pyramid.” This article argues that Derrida’s essay compels us to face the impossibility of giving a wholly coherent account of embodiment. The Aufhebung supposedly unites the exteriority of the corporeal with interiority in a higher unity that cancels and preserves them both; Hegel’s
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Brave new lifeworld: vicissitudes of the Lebenswelt in French “phenomenology” and beyond Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Pietro Terzi
In this article I focus on a specific knot in the articulated and, as Paul Ricœur famously said, “heretical” constellation of French phenomenology. The aim is to account for a transition that appears to be particularly interesting from both a theoretical and a historical point of view: that from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s and Mikel Dufrenne’s recasting and overcoming the lifeworld in terms of all-encompassing
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The Jew as a doppelgänger: the role of the double in the constitution of identity Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Eran Dorfman
This paper aims to clarify the role the double plays in the constitution of identity, focusing on the movement between the individual and the collective level. Notably, the latter today is often considered through the lens of identity politics. The double, I argue, poses an alternative to this type of politics, by showing the interdependence of groups. As a case study, this paper focuses on the complex
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Moments of realization: extending Homeworld in British-African Novelist Doris Lessing’s Four-Gated City Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 David Seamon
For Husserl, the homeworld is the tacit, taken-for-granted sphere of experiences, understanding, and situations marking out a world that is comfortable, usual, and “the way things are and should be.” Always, according to Husserl, the homeworld is in some mode of lived mutuality with an alienworld—a world as seen as a realm of difference, atypicality, and otherness. In this article, I draw on British-African
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The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Niall Keane
The following examines the concept of time in Gadamer’s work, looking specifically at the role of artwork and festival as focal points of his temporal analysis. It is argued that the usual way of understanding Gadamer’s reflections on time as either “empty” or “fulfilled,” while accurate, need to be supplemented by a third species of time which is neither “full” nor “empty,” pointing instead to the
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Essence, modality, and the material a Priori: Scheler and Contemporary Essentialism Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Tanner Hammond
This paper attempts to demonstrate Max Scheler’s anticipation of and continued relevance to a burgeoning trend of essence-based accounts of modality, chief among them being Kit Fine’s landmark 1994 “Essence and Modality.” I argue that Scheler’s account of the material a priori not only anticipates the picture of essence-based modality suggested by Fine, but moreover offers resources with the potential
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The worst, the lesser violence and the politics of deconstruction Continental Philosophy Review (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Mihail Evans
The characterisation of Derrida’s politics as a seeking for the “lesser violence” has become an almost paradigmatic interpretation. Yet the phrase la moindre violence appears only in the early essay “Violence and Metaphysics” and its meaning is not as straightforward as might initially seem. I will argue that it is a mistake to take this expression to summarise the political import of this essay let