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The omnitemporality of idealities Continental Philosophy Review 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 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 Pub Date : 2024-01-25
Abstract 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
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Gottesglaube as Glaubenstrotz. The concessive structure of the Christian religious attitude Continental Philosophy Review 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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Beyond the mere present: Husserl on the temporality of human and animal consciousness Continental Philosophy Review 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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“A sociality of pure egoists”: Husserl’s critique of liberalism Continental Philosophy Review 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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Vocational life: personal, communal and temporal structures Continental Philosophy Review 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 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 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 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 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 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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Community: a unified disunity? Continental Philosophy Review 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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From communication to communalization: a Husserlian account Continental Philosophy Review 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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Augustine and Heidegger on Verticality and Everydayness Continental Philosophy Review 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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Time, moral and anti-moral: Améry and Levinas on historical responses to trauma Continental Philosophy Review 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 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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The impurity of praxis: Arendt and Agamben Continental Philosophy Review 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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Exploring the philosophical concept of my death in the context of biology: the scholarly significance of the unknown Continental Philosophy Review 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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Difference and presence: Derrida and Husserl’s phenomenology of language, time, history, and scientific rationality Continental Philosophy Review 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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Lines made by walking—On the aesthetic experience of landscape Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Annika Schlitte
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Healing the Lifeworld: On personal and collective individuation Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Elodie Boublil
The paper argues that the dynamics of personal and collective individuation could be interrelated and bear ethical significance thanks to an analysis of the Lifeworld and intersubjectivity that link together the genetic and the generative perspectives of phenomenology. The first section of the paper recalls the epistemological and ontological implications of Husserl's and Stein's analysis of personal
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James G. Hart, Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology, ed. Rodney K. B. Parker, Cham: Springer, 2020, 272 pp., ISBN 978-3030448417 Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Christina M. Gschwandtner
This contribution highlights the importance of the work of Hedwig Conrad-Martius, a student of Husserl and early phenomenological thinker, in the context of a review of James Hart’s 1972 dissertation on her work, now published under the title Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology. It provides some context for Conrad-Martius’ thought, gives a brief chapter-by-chapter account of Hart’s treatment
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Varieties of the Lifeworld: Phenomenology and Aesthetic Experience Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Iulian Apostolescu, Stefano Marino
In this contribution we first sketch an outline of the concept of lifeworld (Lebenswelt), to introduce the readers to the guest-edited collection of essays Varieties of the Lifeworld: Phenomenology and Aesthetic Experience, special issue of the “Continental Philosophy Review.” We trace back the origin of the concept of lifeworld to Husserl’s late phenomenology, although also explaining (on the basis
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The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Christian Ferencz-Flatz
Ever since the 1960s, media and communication studies have abounded in heated debates concerning the psychological and social effects of fictional media violence. Massive empirical research has first tried to tie film violence to cultivating either fear or aggressive tendencies among its viewership, while later research has focused on other media as well (television, video games). The present paper
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Raoul Moati, Levinas and the night of being: a guide to totality and infinity, translated by Daniel Wyche, New York: Fordham University Press, 2017, 217 + xvii pp., ISBN: 9780823273201 Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Zachary Willcutt
Levinas and the Night of Being investigates the ontological character of Totality and Infinity that has frequently been overlooked, suggesting that this ontological character is constituted by nocturnal events of being, the dark foundations that undergird the intentional activity of consciousness. Through a close reading of Totality and Infinity, Levinas and the Night of Being begins with the separation
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Bettina Bergo: Anxiety – a philosophical history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 514 pp, ISBN: 978-0-19-753971-2 Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Jerome Veith
This review of Bettina Bergo’s book, Anxiety, draws attention both to the interweaving method of her account and to the substance of its implications. Her evocative historical and textual analyses, I argue, result in a widening conception of the mind that challenges our attempts to locate anxiety merely in the body or in consciousness (or in a tidy bridging of the two).
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Martin Koci: Thinking Faith after Christianity: A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka's Phenomenological Philosophy, 2020, New York: State University of New York Press, 301 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-7893-7, ISBN 978-1-4384-7892-0 Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Jacky Yuen-Hung Tai
Martin Koci’s Thinking Faith after Christianity is a rigorous and nuanced study of Jan Patočka’s philosophy, ineluctable for researchers interested in post-Heideggerian phenomenology and philosophy of religion. Koci makes a unique contribution by reconstructing Patočka’s phenomenological insights into the meaning of faith such that Christianity can be rethought as a way to understanding the experience
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“Being tied to experience”: towards a subjective account of the phenomenology of the event Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Daniel Neumann
In this text, Heidegger's notion of the event is understood as a rupture on an ontological level. From this follows the aporia of whether the event concerns the coming about of being itself, or of beings. To address the ontological as well as the ontic aspect of the event, the article suggests to understand the event in a subjective framework, in line with transcendental conditions of experience, specifically
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The unaffordable and the sublime Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Shaun Gallagher
In this paper I examine a set of exceptional aesthetic experiences that remove us from our pragmatic everyday life and involve a specific type of unaffordability. I then extend this notion of unaffordability to experiences of awe and its relation to the sublime. My analysis is guided by considerations of the phenomenologically inspired enactivist approach that supports an affordance-based accounts
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A critique of the crowd psychological heritage in early sociology, classic phenomenology and recent social psychology Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Gerhard Thonhauser
The paper critically reconstructs the crowd psychological heritage in phenomenological and social science emotion research. It shows how the founding figures of phenomenology and sociology uncritically adopted Le Bon’s crowd psychological imagery as well as what I suggest calling the disease model of emotion transfer. Against this background, it can be examined how Le Bon’s understanding of emotional
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Word as image: Gadamer on the unity of word and thing Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-03-05 David W. Johnson
One of Gadamer's largest and most characteristic concerns has been to show that hermeneutics is a form of practical philosophy. The central task of hermeneutics as practical philosophy for Gadamer is to reflectively appropriate the moral resources of our tradition in order to respond to the skepticism—characteristic of our age—about our ability to reach the truth in our normative judgments. Practical
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Rethinking Husserl’s lifeworld: The many faces of the world in Heidegger’s early Freiburg lecture courses Continental Philosophy Review Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Sebastiano Galanti Grollo
This paper examines the concept of the world elaborated by Heidegger in the early Freiburg lecture courses of the years 1919 to 1923, in which he proposes a renewed conception of phenomenology through a comparison with Husserlian phenomenology. First, I show that although the theme of the lifeworld became central only in late Husserlian works, especially in The Crisis of European Sciences, Husserl
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