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Anagrammatical Time: on the Grammar of Temporal Harm in the Afterlife of Slavery Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Martina Ferrari
In this paper, I argue that lived time is anagrammatical. Anagrammatical time is a time that lands differently along race/gender/class lines. Its sens – its grammar – is rearranged by the context of its unfolding, at times effecting temporal harm while, at others, offering paths for temporal freedom. After introducing the notion of anagrammatical in part 1, in part 2, I turn to Merleau-Ponty’s notions
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Aristotle and the Ends of Eros, or Aristotle’s Erotic Sublime? Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Emanuela Bianchi
While Eros has a central philosophical function in the dialogues of Plato, it all but disappears as a philosophical term in the thought of Aristotle, and is replaced by the more rational and reciprocal relation of friendship, φιλία. This essay asks what becomes of Eros in Aristotle’s thinking, whether as deity, natural or cosmic force, or mode of human relation. Drawing on the ancient epithet of Eros
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The Cannibal’s Antidote for Resentment: Diffracting Ressentiment through Decolonial Thought Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Pedro Brea
This essay is split into two thought experiments. The first will be to diffract ressentiment through the works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Édouard Glissant. I will create a bridge with decolonial thought by interpreting Anzaldúa’s concept of the nopal de castilla and mestiza consciousness through the interpretive lens of ressentiment to show the affinity that exists between the work of Anzaldúa and Nietzsche
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Interpretation and Truth in Kant’s Theory of Beauty Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Kristi Sweet
This essay argues that the interpretations we develop through the activity of reflection have a share of the truth. I argue this, first, by outlining the relationship of concepts to intuitions in Kant’s theory of cognition, which presents the measure for truth in his philosophy. I turn, second, to explicate in detail the relation of the faculties in Kant’s descriptions of the free play between the
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Knowledges “In the Land”? A Process Phenomenological Reading of Deborah Bird Rose’s “Exploring an Aboriginal Land Ethic” Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Andrew Kirkpatrick
Inspired by a (process) phenomenological reading of Deborah Bird Rose’s 1988 article “Exploring an Aboriginal Land Ethic,” and drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s claim that knowledge is “in the hands,” this paper explores the intersection of Merleau-Ponty’s embodied, process phenomenology and Indigenous Australian place-based ontologies. Rather than the moral demands or consequences of adopting an “Aboriginal
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Corporeity and the Eurocentric Community: Recasting Husserl’s Crisis in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the Flesh Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Andréa Delestrade
This paper attempts to develop a phenomenological account of community which would not be pervaded by Eurocentric assumptions. Such Eurocentrism is what Husserl’s phenomenological framework has been accused of. I first reconstruct Husserl’s phenomenology of community in his late transcendental phenomenology by examining the Vienna Lecture. I show that Husserl’s Eurocentrism is encapsulated in his account
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Estranged Kinship: Empathy and Animal Desire in Merleau-Ponty Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Chandler D. Rogers
Merleau-Ponty suggests in his Nature lectures that myth provides the best way into thinking the relation of strange kinship between humanity and animality. He goes on to refigure Husserl’s paradigm of the two hands touching to extend beyond merely human-to-human relations, invoking in the process the myth of Narcissus. By carefully examining Merleau-Ponty’s late refiguration of that paradigm, alongside
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The Fraternity of Milk: Sovereignty and Anthropotheophagy in Derrida’s Unpublished Seminar Manger l’autre (1989–1990) Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Valeria Campos-Salvaterra
In the unpublished seminars given in the United States and France between 1989–1991, Manger l’autre: Politiques de l’Amitié and Rhétoriques du Cannibalisme, Derrida analyzes the rhetorical function that the act of eating has in the Western tradition’s philosophical texts. In this paper I analyze the reading Derrida makes in those seminars of Saint Augustine’s Confessions, in order to show that they
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Politicizing Ontological Guilt: Arendt’s Transformative Appropriation of Heidegger’s Existential Analytic Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Thomas Ø. Wittendorff
To the limited extent that Arendt’s stance on Heidegger has been studied in relation to her thinking on guilt, the focus has been on her outright repudiation of Heidegger’s controversial ontologization of guilt. However, that Arendt does not simply repudiate Heidegger’s account of guilt becomes clear if we recognize that she deals with guilt, albeit less explicitly, in her theory of political action
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The World as Play: Fink, Gadamer, Patočka Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Eddo Evink
This article explores the idea of ‘play’ as a metaphor to understand the world as an always presupposed frame of all experiences and appearances. A large part of it is devoted to the work of Eugen Fink, who developed a notion of the world as play, as a speculative idea beyond phenomenology. This article argues firstly in favor of such an effort to understand the world as play, as an alternative to
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Affordances: on Luminous Abodes and Ecological Reason Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Jason M. Wirth
This is an essay on place in light of the ecological crisis as an exercise in what Pierre Charbonnier has recently called ecological reason, that is, “the environmental reflexivity of our species.” How do the roots of our prevailing political and economic relationships to the many lands that sustain us appear retroactively from the perspective of ecological reason? In a kind of tragic reversal, the
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Cosmological Topologies and the (De)formations of Things at Catastrophic Ends Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Omar Rivera
Drawing from Andean cosmological, mythological and aesthetic lineages, this paper is about the possibility of a phenomenology of things at catastrophic ends. In this regard, I approach things under the sway of a (de)formative emptiness. In the first part, I develop a relational ontology on the basis of the Andean notion of pacha or cosmos, which provides a phenomenological frame for a determination
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Creolization as Decolonial Theory Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 John E. Drabinski
What does Édouard Glissant have to contribute to theorizing decolonization and a philosophy of difference? And how is this contribution tied to rethinking place (from Caribbean to Caribbeanness) and world (comprised of creolized culture and identity)? This essay takes up Glissant’s work in the context of questions of history and memory, with particular focus on how historical experience grounds philosophical
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Drifting to the Periphery of the Ancient Greek World: on Images, Visions, and Dreams Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Claudia Baracchi
The essay articulates a rhapsodic reflection on the place of images, their surfacing, and the invisible that sustains them. By way of introduction, it focuses on (1) the initial scenes of Pasolini’s Medea (1969). Following this spellbinding sequence, it addresses (2) the abiding philosophical attraction to the phenomenon of dreams and visions. This will lead to (3) the story of a momentous flight from
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Lost in Place: Nearing Homelessness as Boundless Emptiness of Mind Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Brian Schroeder
This essay brings together the perspectives of phenomenology and East Asian philosophies through an engagement with Dōgen, Heidegger, Nishida, and Nishitani to address the concept of place in relation to the concept and feeling of homelessness. With respect to the notion of dwelling and finding one’s place in the world and with oneself, the experience of being and feeling lost psychologically will
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Place in Painting Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Edward S. Casey
This essay examines the role of place in painting. This role is multiple – at once attracting our look but also locatory of whatever is displayed in the painting itself and attracting our attention to it as a place distinct from the place where we are painting it or viewing it. Examined here is also the role of the lived body in the apprehension of place in painting: a corporeal animating force that
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A Debilitating Colonial Duration: Reconfiguring Fanon Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Alia Al-Saji
I argue that the temporality of colonialism is a disabling duration. To elaborate, I focus on a site in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks where disability/debility and racism intertwine – Fanon’s refusal of “amputation” in his experience of cinema. While such disability metaphors have been problematized as ableist, I argue that amputation is more than a metaphor of lack. It extends what racializing
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Environmentality: A Phenomenology of Generative Space in Husserl Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Tao DuFour
This article explores aspects of the theory of the constitution of space in the work of Edmund Husserl that appear in his late, posthumously published writings on the themes of intersubjectivity and generativity, which the article proposes imply a theory of environmental experience. It identifies and examines Husserl’s use of the locution Umweltlichkeit as it appears in these late works, proposing
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The Experience of the Alien and the Inter-world: From Waldenfels to Merleau-Ponty Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ovidiu Stanciu
This paper aims to lay out the main tenets of Bernhard Waldenfels’s analyses of the experience of the alien and to confront the philosophical thesis underwriting them with a central insight stemming from Merleau-Ponty’s late philosophy. In the first section, I reconstruct the outlines of the experience of the alien, as described by Waldenfels, and show that, on his account, this experience can function
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The (Personal) Experience of Values – Scheler and Hildebrand Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Daniel Neumann
There are several problems in conceiving of value experience in early phenomenology. What exactly does the experience of a value consist in? How are we to determine the morality of an action that is based on a value which is, as a reality in and of itself, imposed on us from without? How is the experience of values related to the person and in what way can an intuitive value response be reconciled
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Shame in the Philosophical Narrative of the Pour-Soi: On Sartre’s Being and Nothingness Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ana Falcato
This paper discusses the relevance and the conceptual role, within Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, of a fleeting impression of shame that reverts the threat of solipsism looming over any project of transcendental philosophy. In reading Sartre’s masterpiece, I underscore two methodological points that tend to be bypassed in standard interpretations and lengthy discussions of the book. On the one hand
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The “Phenomenon” in Mamardashvili’s Phenomenology of Ontological Maturation Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Erik Kuravsky
In the essay, I present the basic principles of Merab Mamardashvili’s phenomenology of ontological maturation. Though Mamardashvili’s thinking has been recently introduced to the West, there is still very little awareness of the uniqueness of his phenomenological insights, allowing him to illuminate contemporary philosophy’s central ontological and existential matters in a novel light. The essay addresses
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The Three “Fundamental Deceptions” of Being and Time: Heidegger’s Phenomenology Revisited Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 David Charles Abergel
In his private notes written in 1936 (now published as GA82), Heidegger enumerates three “fundamental deceptions” at play in Being and Time (1927). The thrust of these deceptions is twofold: that Dasein is something given and that the task of phenomenology is to describe Dasein in its givenness. These are deceptions, Heidegger claims in 1936, because Dasein is not something given, but can only be reached
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Transpositions: Painting and the Phenomenological Fragments of the Unrecognizable Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Alejandro A. Vallega
For Anselm Kiefer, his painting shows that, that something exists “shows that there is also nothingness.” The moment of visibility is also the moment of our exposure in/with/through nothing (in a gerundive sense) elemental in the happening of the visible. Painting bears ways of exposing the becoming of the visible and ultimately of consciousness, both sensible and intellectual, in/through/with emptying
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What Does Not Tremble Is Not Stable: Three Philosophical Streams from the Spring of (Un)Certainty Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Hila Naot
The article proposes a phenomenological journey through three concepts of uncertainty – those of Blaise Pascal, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jan Patočka. The discussion focuses on the meaning of certainty and uncertainty and on the mutual relations between the two according to each philosopher. Adopting an embodied philosophical-poetic perspective enables the dialectical relations prevailing between these
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Compearance Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Daniela Calabrò
The analyses at the core of this essay focus attention on the concepts of “Compearance” and “Exposition” in Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical reflection. Starting from the analyses carried out by Sartre, Lévinas and Derrida, this paper aims to define and highlight one of the fundamental concepts in Nancy’s philosophical work, which is touching. A “corpus of touch” that is a syncopated corpus, interrupted
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The Impossible Possibility of Community Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Jacob Rogozinski
The author analyzes the deconstruction of the community carried out by Jean-Luc Nancy. For Nancy, the aim of the community has been historically accomplished by its self-destruction in the “work of death” of totalitarianism. This does not lead him to renounce the notion of community, like Derrida, but to highlight its paradoxical (im-)possibility. This is why Nancy proposes the concept of a “community
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Nancy’s Thinking of the Event Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 François Raffoul
Jen-Luc Nancy’s thinking of the event stems from his understanding of being as based on no principle, ground or essence. Nothing preexists the event of being, no principle, arche or prior substance. With such a statement, a thinking of the event emerges: not preceded by any principle or ground, being is nothing but the event of itself. In turn, the event is no longer anchored in a principle that itself
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The Post-deconstructive Concept of Evidence Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer
The general objective of this essay is to systematize Jean-Luc Nancy’s post- deconstructive reflections on the concept of evidence. A general claim of this paper is that the post-deconstructive concept of evidence is genuinely an epistemic concept of evidence insofar as it refers to structures involved in verification processes. Evidence is the presentation of a state of affairs that relates the presentation
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Questioning the “We” in Times of Global Threats with Butler and Levinas Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Lucia Angelino
Today, the “we” has not lost its place in contemporary debates. On the contrary, it has become a crucial question in the political and philosophical debates relating to global-scale disasters and traumatic events, which expose all of humanity to the same risks and same threats. In a dramatic and paradigmatic way, these events invite us to “mourn” the fantasy of self-sufficiency of the I and remind
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The [Transplanted] Thinking Heart Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
This article discusses the relation between philosophy and heart from the viewpoint of a transplanted heart. It is a reflection on Jean-Luc Nancy’s thoughts on the heart as intruder in the thought of the world. Departing from the personal experience of a heart transplant, Nancy develops a deconstruction of the idea and experience of the self, showing that the need of another heart in the body of philosophy
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Dislodged Experience as an Overcoming of Reason: Towards a Phenomenology of Beyng Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Erik Kuravsky
Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy approaches human transformation as an overcoming of Western metaphysics. The nature of this transformation does not imply a mere change of a worldview, an ethical or spiritual fulfillment, or even self-transcendence. Instead, Heidegger speaks about a dislodgement of human essence. In the article I address the notion of dislodgement as central for understanding
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Heidegger’s Conversational Pedagogy Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Katherine Davies
Between 1944 and 1954, Heidegger wrote five dialogues – or conversations – that stage philosophical discussions. I argue these texts develop a yet unacknowledged Heideggerian pedagogy of conversation. From the characters he conjures to the topics of their discussions, Heidegger underscores the importance of teaching and learning differently in each conversation and shapes his own pedagogical sensibility
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Nietzsche and the Self-Overcoming of Historical Consciousness Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Jason Kemp Winfree
This paper addresses the self-overcoming of historical consciousness in Nietzsche’s “The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” and contemporaneous texts. I argue that Nietzsche’s particular historical awareness, which conditions his treatment of historiography [Historie], is indebted to the lineage of German Idealism it also overtly contests. That contestation reaches its apex in Nietzsche’s
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The Origin of the Phenomenology of Attention Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Thomas Byrne
This paper accomplishes two tasks. First, I unpack Husserl’s analysis of interest from his 1893 manuscript, “Notes Towards a Theory of Attention and Interest” to demonstrate that it comprises his first rigorous genetic analysis of attention. Specifically, I explore Husserl’s observations about how attentive interest is passively guided by affections, moods, habits, and cognitive tensions. In doing
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Toward a Phenomenology of “The Other World”: This World as It Is for No One in Particular Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Shannon Hayes
In the working notes to The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty uses punctum caecum (physiological blind spot) as a metaphor for the unconscious and the invisible of the visible. I read the punctum caecum alongside Merleau-Ponty’s call in another working note to “[e]laborate a phenomenology of the other world.” I take up a phenomenology of the other world as directed toward the punctum caecum
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Witnessing and Testimony in Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Gert-Jan van der Heiden
Departing from two diverging lines of inquiry of testimony that characterize philosophy today, this article aims to show what a hermeneutic phenomenology of witnessing and testimony is and how this approach to testimony offers a new framework to understand witnessing and testimony, which also repositions the present-day main lines of inquiry of testimony. The first section offers a critical assessment
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The Age of Distance: On an Ancient Hand Gesture Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Claudia Baracchi
In light of the mandate of social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the subsequent disruption in habitual practices involving physical contact, the essay explores the ancient gesture of the handshake with reference to both its cultural codifications and its iconography, widespread especially in Mediterranean and Near Eastern areas. While involving manifold semantic and symbolic significance
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Dialectics of Silence for a Time of Crisis: Rethinking the Visionary Insights of Michel Serres and Simone Weil Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Marjolein Oele
This paper examines the figure of silence in the works of Michel Serres and Simone Weil. It argues that, in the spirit of Serres and Weil, our time of crisis calls not for a short-term response, but for long-term engagement in a dialectics of silence: the dialogical movement between the silencing of institutions and the attentive silence of visionary insights. Such dialectics can revalidate the value
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Gramáticas de lo inaudito as Decolonial Grammars: Notes for a Decolonization of Listening Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 María del Rosario Acosta López
This paper proposes to reflect self-critically on an ongoing research project entitled “Grammars of listening,” which started as a philosophical approach to the question of listening at the site of trauma and the challenges this kind of listening poses to our conceptions of memory and history, and has recently shifted to asking about the possible limitations to such a reflection when confronted with
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Toward the Vanishing of the “Human”: Animal Becoming and Elemental Architecture Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Omar Rivera
By putting forward the notions of “eco-sensibilities” and “eco-permeable relationalities,” this paper explores a non-instrumentalizing mode of relation with the “non-human.” On this basis, it shows the possibility of affectively disempowering the hold of “ecological indifference” as Nancy Tuana describes it. It focuses on “animal becoming” and “elemental architecture” as “eco-sensibilities” that effect
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Towards a Philosophy of Crisis Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Miguel de Beistegui
Thirty years ago, Fukuyama announced the end of history in the form of the triumph of liberal democracy and free markets. Crises were going to be something of the past. Today, crises abound. Does this mean that the eschatology of the 1980s and 90s should give way to a crisology? Given the many ways in which the vocabulary of crisis is used, and crises are instrumentalized, can the word crisis become
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Witnessing the Uninhabitable Place: On the Experience and Testimony of Refugees Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Gert-Jan van der Heiden
Symptomatic of the crisis of the current global political order are the millions of displaced that have fled their homes but are not allowed to enter the country in which they seek refuge. Instead, they are placed in camps. To understand the site of the camp and the bare life it produces, testimonies of refugees are indispensable. This essay aims to examine and listen to these testimonies by, first
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“As Soon as a Man Comes to Life, He Is Old Enough to Die”: Heidegger and Chapter XX of Der Ackermann aus Böhmen Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Peter Atterton
In section 48 of Being and Time, Heidegger quotes from chapter XX of Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, a late medieval prose poem written in Early New High German, circa 1400: “As soon as a man comes to life, he is at once old enough to die.” In this paper, I provide the context for the quotation. I also suggest that Heidegger’s interest in Der Ackermann cannot be explained solely in terms of his believing
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Condillac and Derrida: Perception, the Human and Empiricism Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Sean Gaston
In June 2020, a new work by Derrida on Condillac was published, Le Calcul des langues. This article re-examines Derrida’s readings of Condillac, focusing on the relation between perception and the language of signs; the relation between human knowledge and the animal; and the idealization and limits of empiricism.
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On Derrida’s Donner le temps, Volumes I & II: A New Engagement with Heidegger Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Adam R. Rosenthal
This essay explores the importance of Donner le temps II within the context of Derrida’s writings on Heidegger and the gift. In the first section of the essay, I situate the publication of the latter half of Derrida’s 1978–79 seminar against his writings on the gift generally, beginning in 1968 and ending in 2000. In the second section, I explain how the second volume of Donner le temps relates to
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The Poetic Way of Thinking Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Krzysztof Ziarek
Heidegger repeatedly performs the encounter of thinking and poetry, explicitly for the sake of inaugurating a non-metaphysical way of thinking. This transformed thinking is to be poetic and non-conceptual, eschewing the comfort of transparent meaning, the grasping power of concepts, the presentational force of images, or the self-evident correctness of propositional statements. The need for such a
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Self-Consciousness without an “I”: A Critique of Zahavi’s Account of the Minimal Self Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Lilian Alweiss
This paper takes Zahavi’s view to task that every conscious experience involves a “minimal sense of self.” Zahavi bases his claim on the observation that experience, even on the pre-reflective level, is not only about the object, but also has a distinctive qualitative aspect which is indicative of the fact that it is for me. It has the quality of what he calls “for-meness” or “mineness.” Against this
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The Sense of Propulsion: Sartre’s Freedom as Deleuzian Force Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Elad Magomedov
This paper will revitalize the notion of force in Sartre’s phenomenology by reinterpreting thrown-projection as propulsion. From there, Sartre’s analysis of agency will be explored as regards the constitutive moments pertaining to the dynamics of striving. We will see that such striving relates to Deleuze’s ideas on how bodily forces take consciousness into possession. In the final steps of the analysis
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Political Hermeneutics and Social Interpretation Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Magnus Ferguson
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The Question Concerning Literacy: Hatab on Speaking, Reading, and Writing Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Scott M. Campbell
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“Clinging Stubbornly to the Antithesis of Assumptions”: On the Difference Between Hegel’s and Spinoza’s Systems of Philosophy Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Daniel J. Smith
This essay re-examines Hegel’s critique of Spinoza’s Ethics, focusing on the question of method. Are the axioms and definitions unmotivated presuppositions that make the attainment of absolute knowledge impossible in principle, as Hegel charges? This essay develops a new reading of the Ethics to defend it from this critique. I argue that Hegel reads Spinoza as if his system were constructed only according
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Divining: ΥΔΩΡ, Opacity, and Thalean Considerations Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 D. M. Spitzer
Dowsing, water-witching, divining – the procedure seeks a flow or spring beneath the surface of earth. So too this inquiry attempts to locate and sound the meanings associated with the polestar of Thalean considerations, ὕδωρ, that course beneath the interpretative strata of an overly-familiar tradition grounded in the principles of clarity and intelligibility. If these principles are held in suspension
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Fighting Fire with Fire: Thinking Φύσις at the Inception Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 S. Montgomery Ewegen
This essay explores the role of flame in Heidegger’s 1943–44 lectures on Heraclitus (GA 55). Specifically, I trace a tension that unfolds within the text between two flames: namely, “the flames of presumptuous mismeasurement” characteristic of modernity, and the flames of beyng. As I show, in GA 55 Heidegger argues that a certain Seinsvergessenheit has come to dominate the modern world and has resulted
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Four Transcendental Illusions of the Digital World: A Derridean Approach Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Susanna Lindberg
This article considers the remote meeting technologies that have become the unavoidable framework of (academic) work during the COVID-19 epidemic. I analyze them with the help of Jacques Derrida’s concepts, thus also illustrating the reach of the latter. The article presents four “transcendental illusions” as supporting the digital world and, according to Derrida, experience. The illusion of proximity:
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Subjectivity Viewed as a Process Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 James Mensch
Husserl, in his late manuscripts, made a number of apparently opposing assertions regarding the subject. These assertions are reconciled once we realize that they apply to the different stages of the genesis of the subject. This means that the subject has to be understood as a process – i.e., as continually proceeding from the living present, which forms its core, to the developed self that each of
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Where Is Negation in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology? Symbolic Formation and the Implex Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Rajiv Kaushik
This paper concerns a basic ambiguity in Merleau-Ponty’s ontology between the reversibility of flesh and its écart. Where the former suggests continuity between the sensing and the sensible, the latter suggests their separation. It is difficult to know from reading The Visible and the Invisible which is to be prioritized or how one is to be read alongside the other. I argue that such a relation comes
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In Praise of “Being Pulled Up Short” Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Niall Keane
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Analoga and Phantasmata: On the Intuitiveness of Imagination in Husserl and Sartre Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Alain Flajoliet
In this essay, I study the departure performed in The Imaginary (Sartre, 1940) from the Husserlian position spanning from the Logical Investigations and the 1904/1905 lectures on the imagination. In Sartre’s conception, the imagination in its two forms (“physical image,” “mental image”) is never intuitive. Moreover, in an act of imagination we can never find immanent sensible contents. In Husserl,
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Conscious and Unconscious Phantasy and the Phenomenology of Dreams Research in Phenomenology (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Saulius Geniusas
My goal is threefold. First, building on the basis of Husserl’s phenomenology of the imagination, I will argue that phantasy is a specific type of intentional experience, which intends its objects as neutralized presentifications (neutralisierte Vergegenwärtigungen). Second, I will turn to dreams and argue that non-lucid dreams are unconscious phantasies, which cannot be conceived in the above-mentioned