The 8th Annual Conference of the

Central and East European Society for Phenomenology

PHENOMENOLOGY AND HISTORY

6 - 8 September 2023

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

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 Abstracts
(the order following the conference schedule)

6 September (Wednesday) 2023

09:00-10:00 Registration

10:00 Opening address speech (Venue: Cinema hall): Witold Płotka (Warsaw,
president of CEESP), Dragan Prole (Novi Sad, on behalf of the host)

10:30 Keynote speech (Venue: Cinema hall): Ugo Vlaisavljević (University of

Abstract The key concepts and directions for understanding the so-called ‘histor-
ical turn’ in Husserl’s late philosophy are contained in his Vienna Lecture,
the initial text of The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental
Phenomenology. The whole Crisis book can be considered a large sup-
plement to this famous lecture held in Vienna in May 1935. And yet,
there is a marked caesura between the short Urtext and its lengthy
addendum. The Vienna lecture introduced for the first time the ideas
that will become the main themes of the Crisis book, but some of them
nevertheless remained undeveloped in the book. Husserl’s speech in
Vienna demonstrates that the founding gesture of a phenomenologist
who intrudes into the area of social history, or history in the ordinary
sense, is to suspend a ‘fundamental category of all historicity’, which
is ‘the essential difference between familiarity and strangeness.’ What
distinguish Husserl from all historians before him, including all philos-
ophers dealing with history, is that he introduces a new fundamental
category of historicity, adapted to a new, European form of historicity.
This new category is the difference between the natural and the theo-
retical attitude. The Vienna lecture reveals that Husserl’s phenomenol-
ogy becomes simultaneously engaged in three histories: the history of
philosophy, the history of natural sciences, and the history of the Eu-
ropeanization of humanity. When Husserl in The Crisis, engaged in the
critique of the naturalism of the objective sciences, reaffirms his basic
view held prior to the Vienna lecture that the theoretical attitude is, in
essence, a natural attitude, he actually undermines the keystone of his
new theory of historicity. The Vienna lecture does not mention social,
cultural, or historical changes that the emergence of a transcendental
phenomenological attitude may bring about. Only later in The Crisis,
and even there only in passing, is the attitude considered in that light.
And yet it is clear that the lecture is Husserl’s manifesto for a new epoch
of humanity.

Parallel sessions I

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 Session (Venue: Cinema hall): A parallel, alternative space where phenomenology unfolded brings
Strategies of Historisation alternative forms and media of preservation, too. A need also arises to
Chair: Tanja Todorović make present and preserve the phenomena which could, in the course
of time, disappear from cultural memory and the history of ideas. These
11:30-12:00 Dragan Prole (University of Novi Sad) “A Phenomenological approach to are, however, specific, local phenomena, such as private archive, private
history of philosophy.” seminars, autobiographical poetics, censorship and erasure in the offi-
Abstract For phenomenology, the history of philosophy cannot be some as- cial history contra personal diaries, hybrid forms of thematization (phi-
sumed complex of knowledge, which is necessary for us to be able to losophy, art, and subversive practices).
start with phenomenological philosophizing. In this sense, Husserl res- The approaches to history in Central and East European phenome-
olutely rejects the possibility of any “introduction” to phenomenology nology such as local thematization of historicity and phenomenology
guided by the history of philosophy. All our prior knowledge about the thereby allow one to disclose the operation of the phenomenologist
history of philosophy for phenomenology can only have the status of a in particular historical situation as well as new phenomena related to
mere opinion that, through concrete research, has yet to break through dynamics of center/periphery and plurality of traditions and mediums
to its full clarity and discover its true meaning. In order to establish gen- which were developed in this space. This specific space of thinking can
uine contact and the possibility of communication between the history be disclosed as marginocentric, as a “node” connecting various motifs
of philosophy and phenomenology, it is necessary that the history of and creating hybridization. This strategy, developed especially in liter-
philosophy itself is also drawn into the process of reflection (Besinnung). ary theory and thematization of space (J. Neubauer – M. Cornis-Pope,
Conceptualizing the history of philosophy should reveal whether there Ch. Sabatos and others), can be used in our case, too, and it brings about
is any possibility of true realization, or the implementation of what can new stimuli and challenges to genealogy and reconstruction of history
be established as the telos “intended” in it, while this implementation of phenomenology.
does not in any case result in historical-philosophical knowledge. At the
12:30-13:00 Emanuele Mariani (Università di Bologna) “A Brentanian look at the his-
same time, it does not initiate the constitution, that is, the development
tory of philosophy”
of phenomenological knowledge itself. Revealing the meaning of the
immanent history of philosophy and the self-development of phenom- Abstract “The four phases of philosophy and its current state” has been generally
enology in this sense should not be understood as two different tasks considered as one of the most original theories of Franz Brentano and,
but as the realization of a unique process of reflection. That is why the concomitantly, one of the most deeply rooted in the spirit of the time.
history of philosophy cannot be properly approached if it is done only It is well-known that in this respect Brentano owes a debt to Auguste
in a historical way, but it is necessary to articulate the historical process Comte’s leading idea of a scientific development that allows a general re-
through a unique genesis that is both historical and ideal. The peculiar- assessment of the history of philosophy, although Brentano’s view opts
ity of Husserl’s concept of the history of philosophy consists in empha- for a scheme of repeated cycles through a movement of ascending and
sizing the personal responsibility of the philosopher. We are not talking declining phases. By complementing the historiographical approach-
about any big shifts when it comes to specific, historical-philosophical es that have been largely developed by recent literature (D. Fisette, D.
knowledge. The idea that European culture is built on fundamentally Münch, R. Schmit), we would like to sketch a theoretical reconsideration
different foundations than those valid for the modern world of technol- of the Brentanian “four phases of philosophy”. A theoretical reconsider-
ogy seems much more significant. ation that interprets Brentano’s theory from a psychological standpoint
as an alternative to other dominant interpretations (Mayer-Hillebrand,
12:00-12:30 Jaroslava Vydrova (Slovak Academy of Sciences) “Self-historicization
Mezei and Smith): the declining phases of philosophy should be thus
Strategy of Phenomenology in Central and East European Context”
understood, more precisely, as the improper representations of what
Abstract In Central and East European context, phenomenological movement philosophy, psychologically grounded, properly is.
developed in peculiar way. This research has been undertaken by a
number of researchers oriented to historical, thematical and meth- Session (Venue: Congress hall):
odological questions (W. Plotka, P. Eldridge, A. Varga and others). The Historicity of Personal Being
circumstances also affected the strategies of preservation of memory Chair: Jan Straßheim
during the Communism in form of individual self-historicization, while
phenomenology forcibly moved into unofficial, marginal sphere. A lot of 11:30-12:00 Luka Janeš (Sveučilište u Zagrebu), Toma Gruica (University of Graz)
attention is currently paid to similar research in field of humanities and “The Experience of History and Social Phenomenology: Perspectives
arts, since it allows for thematic and methodological enrichment and from Max Weber and Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
innovation as compared to main current of thematization of historicity.
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 Abstract In Max Weber’s interpretive sociology, the concept of traditions holds That is to say, the question of history should be posed proceeding from
significant importance in understanding the experience of history. the Dasein’s original temporality, i. e. from the temporality of his own
Traditions serve as a means of transmitting historical experiences from being. In spite of Heidegger’s restriction – at least in the period of Being
one generation to the next, shaping individuals’ understanding of the and Time – of using concepts others than Dasein to indicate the human
past and present. This provides a sense of continuity and stability, al- being, I would like to highlight that this exclusion cannot be fully justi-
lowing individuals to comprehend their place in history and society. fied, taking into consideration his existential analysis itself – notwith-
Weber emphasizes the need to understand history as a lived experi- standing the restriction’s utmost methodological fruitfulness in the con-
ence, rather than a mere set of objective facts or events. By focusing text of Being and Time. I argue for a possibility to revitalize traditional
on how individuals interpret and make sense of their historical expe- philosophic concepts and at the same time not to jeopardize the out-
riences through traditions, Weber highlights the subjective meanings comes of the existential analysis. It is following this line that I would like
that individuals attach to social phenomena. Therefore, analyzing Max to speak of the notion of the Self and its original temporal perspective in
Weber’s interpretive sociology as a phenomenology can illuminate which history is founded. Finally, some examples from the literary works
the subjective experiences of individuals and their interpretations of of art will be cited, underlining the Self in its fundamental temporality.
social phenomena, including the experience of history through tra-
ditions. To expand on Weber’s understanding of history, we can draw 12:30-13:00 Michalis Dagtzis (University of Athens) “Incorporating Contingency and
an analogy with the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who also views Necessity in History: Later Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt”
history a priori as the development of meaning. According to Mer- Abstract In this paper I present a comparative analysis of later Merleau-Pon-
leau-Ponty, history, just like perception, involves logic in the domain ty’s conception of history as “logic within contingence” and Hannah
of chance, a type of reason in the unreasonable. While historical forces, Arendt’s unexplored thesis that historical reality is “caused contingent-
such as objects of observation, come into focus exclusively through ly”. My aim is, mainly, to show that there is in both thinkers an attempt
human effort, which actualizes and defines them, just like perception, to reconcile contingency and necessity in history and, secondly, to
history cannot be accurately interpreted as a mechanical game of bring out disparities pointing to different interpretations of Being. Mer-
various alienated factors and accumulations of unfolding facts. This leau-Ponty’s abandonment of reductionist Marxism leads him to devel-
idea is semantically in accordance with Weber’s previously indicated op an approach to history, which interweaves the necessary with the
thought. For Merleau-Ponty, history and perceptual objects exist only fortuitous. In the Lectures at the Collège de France, he introduces the
in relation to individuals who assume history themselves, with varying concept of institution. History is conceived as a milieu of life, an interre-
degrees of consciousness. History, like perceptual objects, represents lation between underlying causality and human freedom. I show how
meaningful activities that establish a meaningful world, going beyond the interdependence of instituting activity and instituted state allows
a mere power struggle. Therefore, in our presentation, we will empha- for a certain amount of free play within the historical vectors, leading
size Merleau-Ponty’s review of language, particularly the thesis that Merleau-Ponty to define historical novelty as “a transformation that pre-
we cannot discuss human history without taking into account the dis- serves [but also] surpasses”.
cussion about human intersubjectivity and language, which enables Concerning Arendt, I focus on her examination of Scotus’ devotion to
valid intersubjective communication at all. “save freedom” by paying “the price of contingency”. My intention is to
demonstrate its importance for Arendt’s understanding of history. I sug-
12:00-12:30 Sergej Valijev (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) in
gest an interpretation that allows for the detection of a theory of con-
Ljubljana) “History, Existence and the Self” tingent causation, about which Arendt is not entirely explicit. According
Abstract In my paper, I am going to shed light on the notions of history, exist- to Arendt, freedom as pure inauguration appears through action and
ence and the self as intertwined concepts endowed with a fundamental “history is... the outcome of action”. Thus, by highlighting her construal
meaning in a phenomenological investigation of human being. Firstly, of human action as the causative element in human affairs, which con-
a phenomenological explanation of the notion of existence shall be demns them to contingency, I claim that her approach strikes a balance
provided, thus assuring the historical dimension within the existence between contingency and necessity in history. Despite Merleau-Ponty’s
itself. For this purpose, some insights of Heidegger’s existential analytic, and Arendt’s common intentions, there remain some important discrep-
exposed, in a magisterial way, in his Being and Time, will be cited. As ancies. Unlike Arendt, Merleau-Ponty’s perspective does not allow for
Heidegger demonstrated, existence in no mere subsistence; instead, the emergence of the radically new. I argue that this divergence points
existence is related to Dasein’s understanding of being on the horizon to a deeper ontological level. By looking their respective conceptions
of time, since Dasein’s being is always temporal. It is in and through the of Being, I spot subtle differences between the Merleaupontyan “flesh”
Dasein’s existence – that is, in his being as existence– that the question and the Arendtian “in-between”, which justify their conflicting views on
of history should be posed. historical novelty.

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13:00-14:00 Lunch break Abstract In my contribution, I want to ask to what extent this insight affects our un-
derstanding of the history of philosophy. Thereby, I want to address two
Session: consecutive questions and outline tentative answers. Firstly, by broaden-
Self, Past, Violence ing Derrida’s perspective, I want to ask whether the history of philosophy
Chair: Lazar Atanasković developed according to specific “reading attitudes” that work as underly-
ing suppositions (analogous e.g., to what Husserl calls natural attitude).
14:00-14:30 Cristian Ciocan (University of Bucharest – Institute for Research in the
These attitudes would not be of mere interpretative interest but would be
Humanities (ICUB), Romanian Society for Phenomenology; Studia Phae-
constitutive for the respective philosophies. Quoting Plotinus, Hegel, and
nomenologica) “History and violence”
Derrida himself as examples, I will briefly illuminate how philosophers al-
Abstract In this talk, I will explore the way in which the phenomenological tradi- ways build their own positions through a philosophical reading of others.
tion approached the question of history in relation to the phenomenon My second question from here is whether Derrida’s approach can give rise
of violence. I will start by emphasizing that, although violence was not to a general phenomenological approach of revealing different reading
among the central topics of phenomenology in its initial phase, the out- attitudes. This approach would require analyses of the frameworks which
break of the First World War impacted greatly the self-understanding of are implicitly operative in philosophy. I will end with the hypothesis that
many German philosophers affiliated to this movement. I will first focus only with the means of a phenomenology concerning the attitudes of en-
gaging with the history of philosophy can we adequately bear witness to
on this dense “polemological” atmosphere, who marked undoubtably the
the foundations of our own understanding of philosophy nowadays and
phenomenology of the early Heidegger, being as well one of the sources
whether it is appropriate.
his latter emphasis on notions such Kampf, Streit or Gewalt. Then, I will
contrast Heidegger’s understanding of the articulation of history and vio- 15:00-15:30 Julian Lünser (Charles University, Prague) “Understanding the Historici-
lence with the dissimilar approaches of Sartre and Levinas. The concept of ty of Transcendental Structures through the Genetic Notions of Horizon,
violence is omnipresent in Sartre’s oeuvre, evolving between a phenom- Type and Habituality”
enological approach in his early works and a more political-oriented view
in his latter publications. For Sartre, the conflict is “the original meaning Abstract A classical paradox of historiography lies in the fact that while history can
of being-for-other” and the hostility between the I and the others is an only be made by human action, it is considered the moving force behind
intersubjective constancy. Violence is a possible answer to the gaze of the humans themselves. To solve this paradox, it is necessary to focus on the
other who objectifies my subjectivity, in the struggle of two opposing lib- way individuals interact with historical developments, both adapting to
them and attempting to manipulate them.
erties. With Levinas, I will focus on the ontological dimensions of violence,
The aim of this paper is to show that Husserl’s genetic phenomenology
following his idea that “being reveals itself as war”. The subject, before any provides a fruitful approach to understand this interaction in depth. In-
factical violence, is already determined in its being by an “essential vio- deed, it is only on the subjective level that it is possible to understand
lence” of act and action. Reason, knowledge, and history reduce the Other history in its radical sense, namely by considering how the transcenden-
to the Same, the individual to a generality, and therefore bear the marks tal structures through which the world is apprehended are themselves
of violence. Equally, ontology reveals itself as a condition of possibility of modified by history. Precisely the laws of this modification of the tran-
violence. It is this violent cohesion of ontology–reason–history–theory– scendental structures of individual monads can be described thanks to
totality–act–subjectivity that will be rephrased by Derrida as “violence of Husserl’s genetic phenomenology. Macro-historical developments, such
light” and as “transcendental violence”. as changes in society, appear in this framework as motivating, but not as
causal factors; they areprocessed in a non-deterministic manner, leaving
14:30-15:00 Sandro Herr (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Charles University in a certain margin for maneuver and reflection for the individual. Concrete-
Prague) “Derrida, Deleuze and the problem of immanent engagement ly, the key structures to explain how the apprehension of the world can
with the history of philosophy” shift are horizon, habituality and type. According to this, it will be argued
that all three are intertwined with each other and generated in an active
Abstract Jacques Derrida was one of the major proponents of the idea in the 20th interaction with one’s environment, but then sediment into passivity to
century to rewrite the history of philosophy. In the tradition of both Husserl codetermine the appearing. Thus, their modification changes even the
and Heidegger, Derrida’s engagement with the tradition was inspired by apprehension of pregivenworldly structures, for example of nature or
phenomenological methods. In the pursuit of a criticism of the metaphys- the other person. Simultaneously, it is the surrounding community that
ics of presence, Derrida then developed his own technique of immanent plays a crucial role in the active interactions with horizon, type and habit-
reading. One of the key insights here is that philosophical texts can be read uality, hence strongly impacting one’s transcendental structures, without
in ways so different that they contradict, subvert, and thereby deconstruct excluding the possibility of dissent altogether. In this way, analyzing the
each other. However, these various ways can nonetheless be possible within structures of consciousness genetically means to comprehend them as a
the same textual framework and without applying external criteria to it. product of history that at the same time produces history.

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 Session: Appropriately, living present, as the being of this I, has a character of
Existentiality and History something permanently streaming and simultaneously of nunc stans,
Chair: Liya Zou “flowingly-statically present” (Crisis, §54). Through self-temporalization,
a kind of constitution, the I is both temporal and ahistorical. Our place
14:00-14:30 Liya Zou (The University of Edinburgh) “Heidegger’s ecstasies—a short- or point of view, therefore, does not lie in acquired, reflected I as an
cut to the existential problem” object, instead in self-identical I as always-subject, albeit the problem
Abstract The philosopher Martin Heidegger’s theory of time proposes that the if this I-pole, the pole of corresponding habitualities that is grasped in
temporal horizon of existence is composed of three dimensions: past, one move, is constituted and does it have a (personal) history, remains
present, and future. He argues that the concept of “ecstasy” or “ekstasis” unanswered.
is crucial in unifying these dimensions and constitutes the temporality of 15:00-15:30 Andrej Jovićević (University of Leuven) “Does the history of philosophy
existence. In this essay, the author begins by explaining Heidegger’s con- necessarily imply a philosophy of history? Confronting Heidegger and
cept of Dasein as “being-there” or “being-in-the-world” and its relation to Deleuze”
time. The author then examines the concept of ecstasy, highlighting its
importance in the existence of being. However, two objections are raised Abstract Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze were prodigious historians of phi-
against ecstasy and temporality. The first objection is proposed by Emma- losophy. Whether as a way of coping with the overbearing presence of
nuel Levinas, a phenomenologist, who argues that being never reaches the history of philosophy,1 or as a way of working through one’s phe-
its own existence and that ecstasy does not support this external exist- nomenological path by way of a confrontation (Auseinandersetzung)
ence because it presupposes a unity of subject and object. The second with the tradition, both thinkers fruitfully engaged with thinkers of the
objection argues that ecstasis belongs to the ontology of being and only past. The guiding thread of my presentation is the potential confluence
appears in the condition of an unchanging and constant ontology. The of their views on the history of philosophy. More precisely, I explore to
author concludes the essay by stating that ecstasis is only a way to corre- what extent Deleuze’s understanding of the history of representation
late the three structures of time and that it does not provide a complete (i.e., the history of the long error of representation which inevitably
understanding of the nature of time and existence. The essay presents a merges with the history of philosophy) might share its inspiration with
critical examination of Heidegger’s theory of time and offers alternative Heidegger’s notion of the history of being (Seinsgeschichte) and the for-
perspectives on the concept of ecstasy and temporality. getting of the ontological difference under metaphysical categories. In
the first part of the presentation, I propose an overarching overlap be-
14:30-15:00 Andrija Jurić (University of Novi Sad) “Phenomenology of the Pure I and tween the two projects. I maintain that both Heidegger and Deleuze
Personal History” consider the hold of metaphysical and representational categories to be
Abstract Within Husserl’s philosophy, there are divergent perspectives regarding a necessary consequence of philosophical inquiry, rather than a contin-
the historical dimension and constitution of the I. On the one hand, he gent historical ‘error’; indeed, the inevitability of employing metaphysi-
explicitly states that the I is an unconstituted element of the pure struc- cal/ representational categories is considered by both to be a transcen-
ture of consciousness, a peculiar „transcendency within immanency” (Ide- dental illusion in the Kantian sense. However, I also maintain that this
as I, §57); on the other, he contends that the I or ego is „continuously overlap is not complete, i.e., that Deleuze’s and Heidegger’s respective
constituting himself” in the unity of a history (Cartesian Meditations, §31). strategies diverge at a significant point. Whereas Heidegger impercep-
This discrepancy is further complicated by the notion that this constitu- tibly merges his account of the history of philosophy with a philosophy
tion of the I occurs for the I or that the I constitutes itself (Crisis §50; Phe- of history, Deleuze effectuates a bifurcation between the two. Shortly
nomenological Psychology, §41). Consequently, we are faced with a kind put, I defend the thesis that Heidegger goes against the initial thrust
of dialectic of changing and unchanging I (Ideas II, §24; Zur Phänomenol- of taking the metaphysical error as a transcendental illusion by putting
ogie der Intersubjektivität III, XX), its temporal and atemporal character emphasis on the monoepochal block which constitutes the actual his-
(Crisis, §50), and the problem of whether the I has a history or not. In this tory of thinking. Deleuze, on the other hand, does not see the history
paper, I aim to analyze the idea of the constitution of the I through the of philosophy as primarily a matter of history, but rather a trans-historic
lens of immediate apprehension and adumbrations, self-consciousness account of the tendency of thinking to break through its representa-
and self-knowledge, habituation, and nunc stans of the living present in tional bounds. Thus, beyond a monolithic account of history, the history
order to demonstrate the conflicting nature as necessary. The I acquires of philosophy in Deleuze takes on “a trans-historical characteristic” in
its history and identity through sedimentation, an ever-increasing ac- which thought is understood through its immanent breakthroughs and
quisition of new habitual convictions. However, this history is simulta- the internal logic of its failure.
neously for the I as his, in which it remains the same and identical.
15:30-16:00 Coffee break

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16:00-17:00 Keynote speech (Venue: Cinema hall): Joseph Cohen (University Col- 7 September (Thursday) 2023
lege Dublin) “On Singularity – Towards a Phenomenology of History”

Abstract Our lecture will engage firstly in deploying a phenomenological investi- 09:00 Visit of the Galery of Matica srpska (guided tour in English)
gation of the idea of singularity and, from this study, reveal at once the
concealed modalities and the novel possibilities reserved in this idea Session (Venue: Cinema hall):
from which we shall develop the lineaments of a phenomenology of Phenomenological Encounters
history oriented towards deploying an approach of the unthinkable in Chair: Witold Płotka
historical events. Retrieving the Husserlian and Heideggerian interpre-
tations of “history” as well as the pointed analyses developed in Ricoeur, 11:00-11:30 Dalius Jonkus (Vytautas Magnus University in Kanuas) “History, cultural
Derrida, Levinas and Patocka, we will develop a philosophical problem- tradition and sedimentation”
atization of “truth” and “reason”, “testimony” and “memory” in history by Abstract Cultural tradition can be understood positively or negatively. The ambiv-
putting forth a suspension of these conceptual figures and where we alence of tradition can be described by two questions: Why does trans-
will see emerge the significance of an economy of sacrifice as the essen- missibility exist, and why does each generation of people not have to
tial element in which the incessant play between “polis” and “polemos” start all over again, but can adopt and pass on habits, customs, skills and
shows itself as History. Through this extensive analysis, we shall propose knowledge to others? How does tradition turn into the schematization
the possibility of shifting our thinking of past historical events as always of embodied memory and the inertia of habits? Preservation of the past
futural and to come in our lived-present and where aporetically occurs in the present can only happen with the appearance of certain traces,
the persistent call for an idea of justice in the name of the irreducible materialized references, or embodied schemes. In geology, chemistry,
singularity in historical events. What occurs to our lived-present in the and oceanology, there is a term of sedimentation, which describes the
face of the singularity of unthinkable futures arising out of each past existence of the past in the present. Husserl and Merleau-Ponty studied
historical event? What regime of signification can be constituted and the sedimentations of experience in order to reveal the assumptions,
instituted for the singularity of past historical events occurring in our genesis and development of the historicity of embodied consciousness.
lived-present as exceptionally futural? Our lecture will hence put forth Derrida used the phenomenological concept of sedimentation and cre-
a certain idea of justice for each singular historical event which resists ated “Gramatology” because he sought to combine a dynamic genesis
the sacrificial economies of historical consciousness and which will be with stable structures. Ferraris applied these ideas of Derrida while de-
seen to open towards a novel concept of “historical mindfulness”, one veloping the theory of documentality. The main idea of documentality
calling onto an unconditional and unconditioned responsibility for the is that a particular kind of social objects, namely documents (records
singular. of social acts) are the basis of social reality. For all three philosophers,
writing or recording becomes a model for reflecting on cultural tradi-
tion. The documentality theory formulated by Ferraris and the case of
the mobile phone as a social object reminds us of the importance of
writing/recording in the social and cultural world. Ideas and social com-
mitments acquire cultural significance and value only when they are re-
corded in writing. Derrida and Ferraris rightly point out the importance
of writing as the objectification and communication of a meaning. Ideal
objects and social objects require materially sensory objectification, but
writing is neither an all-saving memory nor forgetfullness. Writing must
be read not only by understanding the letters or ideograms, but also by
understanding what they mean. Husserl understood writing as a sedi-
mentation that must be reactivated. However, Derrida and Ferraris iden-
tify the written objects only with materialized writing and the repetition
of what is written. The analysis of sedimented forms of memory leads to
the question of whether it is possible to return to the primal sources of
meaning. Are there such records, habits, customs that can function in the
present, even if their primal meaning is lost? I argue that the cultural tradi-
tion of ideal objects as free idealities is possible only on the basis of reac-
tivation, which is not imitative repetition but a return to primal intuitions.

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11:30-12:00 Jan Strassheim (University of Hildesheim) “Philosophers as Eternal Be- I will try to consider the possibility of a historical way to reduction, which
ginners: Schutz and Voegelin on Philosophy as Historical Action” would also imply going beyond the horizon of the world – however, not
from the outside, but from within. My main thesis is that the historicity
Abstract In a 1943 letter to political philosopher Eric Voegelin, Alfred Schutz de- can be regarded as a “self-transcendence” of the world, through which
fends Husserl’s Crisis against Voegelin’s criticism by describing philoso- we can go beyond the world without occupying an external position
phers as historically situated actors. Foreshadowing a criticism that has
above the world, because the world itself as historical one goes beyond
again become significant in recent years, Voegelin had complained in
an earlier letter to Schutz that Husserl’s last published work never left its limits. This self-transcendence of the historical life-world consists, as I
the selective and narrow scope of certain traditions within European will try to show, in the double bookkeeping of historical tradition – his-
history. As a result, according to Voegelin, Husserl had failed to give tory as tradition makes up the very stability of the life-world as mean-
convincing answers to any truly universal questions about world histo- ing-foundation but, at the same time, tradition as history is the very
ry, its anthropological foundations, teleological course, and relation to movement of the foundation, which destabilizes and problematizes it.
objective truth. In Schutz’s reading, however, Husserl’s “Besinnung” is a The historically held pregivenness of the world desubstantiates itself
conscious reflection upon the inevitably selective standpoint of the phi- from within, making possible the unity of historical facticity and the
losopher him or herself. For Schutz, the Crisis reflects the anthropolog- phenomenological epoche.
ically universal fact that doing philosophy is a form of action and thus,
like all human action as analyzed in Schutz’s own social phenomenolo- Session (Venue: Congress hall):
gy, is subject to a complex dynamic of meaning-making. Philosophers Historicity and Transcendentality
stand within historically and culturally specific traditions which are not Chair: Marie Antonios Sassine
of their making and which they can only partly oversee from the per-
spective delineated by their individual goals and interests. From their 11:00-11:30 Natalia Artamenko (Petersburg State University) “Husserl’s Transcen-
respective standpoint within tradition, “critical” philosophers, especially dental Phenomenological Approach to Understanding History. The
at times perceived to be historical junctures, try to institute new “begin- Problem of Generativity”
nings” with a certain “telos” in mind. However, only retrospection from
a later standpoint will suggest what the actual outcome of that action Abstract The report is focused on bringing to light the essence of Husserl’s ge-
was. Since such retrospection is itself a form of philosophical action, the netic phenomenology as the way which the historical dimension of con-
process leads to ever new beginnings without reaching an ultimate end. sciousness reveals itself through for transcendental phenomenology.
As Schutz argues in their later correspondence, Voegelin’s “monopolis- The genetic analysis of consciousness results, on the one hand, in the
tic-imperialistic” insistence on a single truth and normative standard in interpretation of the world as a correlation of semantic references, i.e.
history stems from a misunderstanding of the nature and role of “rele- as the universal and forming horizon, and on the other hand, in the
vance” as the most fundamental principle guiding and motivating the
doctrine of forming and individuating of the transcendental Ego in
production of meaning (Sinn) that shapes experience and action.
view of habitualizing, acquiring habits in the course of precipitating the
12:00-12:30 Mikhail Belousov (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy meanings of the prior experiences, i.e. of the “internal historicity” of “the
and Public, Russian State University for the Humanities) “Is the historical Self” as a transcendental monad. In the sight of passive genesis, such
way to the reduction possible?” historicity came to be understood as the certainty of the field of kines-
thetic capabilities, the field of “I can”, the course of previous kinesthetic
Abstract The paper examines the question if the phenomenological inquiry can experience starting with mastering one’s own motor skills and getting
undergo complete historization without abandoning the husserlian acquainted with their limits.
method of reduction. The question is motivated by what seems to be The further development of the problematics of historicity in phe-
the irreconcilable contradiction between the irreducible historical fac- nomenology is associated with the transiting from “internal” history
ticity and contingency of the phenomenological tradition itself and the
to “external” history, i.e. from the history of a monad to the very only
reduction as an occupation of the position of the disinterested specta-
history which everyone lives in. Such transition could become possible
tor above the world and the disclosure of the transcendental dimension
beyond the worldly horizon. In Crisis, where the theme of the historicity only through inserting the concept of “internal” history into the field
of the life-world acquires central methodological significance, Husserl of research associated with the development of the problem of inter-
criticizes the Cartesian justification of the phenomenological method subjectivity. In this regard, Husserl himself gives some indications in his
in Ideas and outlines a different way to phenomenological reduction. manuscripts published in the volumes XIII-XV of Husserliana, which deal
However, an alternative way from the Cartesian path to reduction in the with transcendental phenomenological understanding of interests and
Crisis did not at all imply the historicization of the reduction itself, despite instincts, birth and death, which results in the concept of the experience
Husserl’s emphasis on the historicity of the life-world, science and phi- of generations, that apparently is the very transcendental phenomeno-
losophy. logical conception of “external history”.

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 Husserl distinguishes three eras of world history (Weltgeschichte) and, 12:00-12:30 Gaëtan Hulot (Sorbonne Université, NOVA International Schools in
accordingly, three types of historicity (Geschichtlichkeit), i.e. three ways Skopje) “Accounting for the historicity of our sensory experience”
of constituting the thingish-cultural environment (Umwelt), the human
community and oneself, which are characteristic of human Dasein. Des- Abstract Husserl’s phenomenology encounters history twice. The first time,
ignating the ways of constituting as the types of historicity is not in the through a collection of objects in the world: traces of past cultures,
slightest accidental, it is grounded in the underlying idea of Husserl’s monuments, manuscripts, of which an ontological account is possible.
The Crisis, asserting that the constituting life of transcendental subjec- The second time, as part of the subject itself: Far from being a pure I/eye,
tivity, i.e. human Dasein, considered with regard to a phenomenologi- the subject discovers itself as a collective We, whose categories were
cal attitude, is historical in itself. (See: Fink, E. Welt und Geschichte. In: shaped by a sedimented cultural development (e.g., history of science).
E. Fink. Nähe und Distanz. Hrsg. von F.-A. Schwarz. 1. Auflage. Freiburg, In this paper, I will consider the historicity of the subject in a specific
München: Alber, 1976. S. 159 — 179). field: that of the senses. According to a classical account of Husserlian
phenomenology, the stratum of sensory contents (colors, sounds, taste,
The types of generativity (Generativität) constitute grounds for distin-
pain...) is the fundamental layer of our perception of the world. It is what
guishing types of historicity and, accordingly, the world eras. According
gives rise to the world and, as such, cannot itself be accounted for in
to Husserl generativity means, “...eine Verkettung von gegenwärtigen und
the same way, by being traced back to a more primitive stratum. How-
längst verstorbenen Personen, die, obschon verstorben, doch jetzt noch (mit
ever, acknowledging a historical dimension of senses, as suggested by
ihren noch durch Nachverstehen nacherzeugbaren, beliebig oft wiederhol-
what cultural historians and anthropologists have investigated in the
baren Gedanken und Werken) aktuell da sind, die Gedanken der Gegenwär-
last decades under the title of “sensory history” (Corbin, Howes, Clas-
tigen immer neu befruchtend, fördernd und ev. auch hemmend, jedenfalls
sen...), challenges this sequential narrative. Does the constituted object
sie in ihrem berufsmäßigen Dasein motivieren...” (“a chain of personalities
(society, culture, history) exert a feedback effect on the subject itself? Or
present or long-dead who, although being deceased, ...are still there, al-
is there a dimension of history more fundamental than the ontological?
ways fertilizing, promoting and possibly also inhibiting the thoughts of
Is our sensibility a historical faculty? Furthermore, how should we un-
those present today...”) (Husserl, E. Die Krisis der europäischen Wissen-
derstand structurally the idea of a history of senses? Do the evolutions
schaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie / Husserliana. Bd. VI.
occur at the level of sensory contents themselves, or at grounded levels,
Haag: Nijhoff, 1976. S. 488).
affecting the judgments or feelings experienced “about” sensory con-
Husserl purposefully emphasizes the correlation between generativity tents? Such questions will be investigated through the framework of the
within the meaning of phenomenology and historicity and its dissimilar- analysis of passive synthesis, with the concept of sedimentation and the
ity from generativity within the meaning of biology. “laws of the propagation of affection”, echoed by insights coming from
The mystery of generativity also represents the mystery of origination of the recently developing field of “sensory history”.
something new in history, since, unlike it is inherent in the animal world,
every new generation coming to the human world not only reproduc- 12:30-13:30 Lunch break
es (“rehearses”) the cultural world inherited, but also develops it within Session (Venue: Cinema hall):
its own culture-creating. Creating as the innovation, thus, appears to be Question of Being
correlative to the very concept of the generative world, implying that a Chair: Filip Borek
certain human community has its history, that it is getting reproduced
(tradited) and renewed through its forming, linking different generations 13:30-14:00 César Gómez Algarra (Université Laval, Universitat de València) “What
in the unity of tradition. kind of History is the History of Being? A Critical Examination”
11:30-12:00 Márk Losoncz (University of Belgrade) “Phenomenology With/Against History” Abstract The project of a history of being, which Heidegger begins to elaborate
from the 1930s onwards, must face multiple criticisms in order to ac-
Abstract Mircea Eliade’s phenomenology of religion (inspired by Husserl and Hei- count for its coherence and legitimacy. In particular, the German philos-
degger, among others) repeatedly rails against the “terror of history”, opher is accused of having brought together the history of metaphysics
while also making affirmative claims about history in an ambivalent way, unto one single and exclusive guiding thread (the question of being). In
creating a positive tension between phenomenology and history. Like- this way, and based on this reconstruction, the legitimacy of any histor-
wise, Henri Corbin’s phenomenological interpretation of Islam (Corbin ical research would be considerably limited. Thus, major figures (them-
was the first French translator of Heidegger’s What is Metaphysics?) aims selves influenced by Heideggerian thinking), such as Derrida, Ricœur or
at a metahistorical perspective which is also ambivalent about the value Blumenberg, seem to share this opinion. The posthumous publication
of history. The aim of the presentation is to reconstruct the views of these of the writings of the Ereignis, as well as of the Black Notebooks, help us
two thinkers, not necessarily as completely coherent, but taking into ac- reconsider this interpretation, and allows us to expose many arguments
count the different beliefs that exist in parallel. against the usual criticisms.
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 Even before presenting it to the public, Heidegger is aware of the diffi- 14:00-14:30 Katherine Everitt (European Graduate School) “Historical Space: For-
culties involved in his project. It could be, then, that the history of being malizing the Relationality between Events”
is far from that totalizing and authoritarian project that judges Western
history and its destiny as mere decay (Untergang). Abstract Alain Badiou has developed perhaps the most sophisticated formaliza-
tion of the event today. Events are necessarily historical, whereas nature,
In this contribution, taking as the starting point numerous comments
he argues, does not have history and thus does not have events. Nature’s
and notes scattered in his private writings, we will try to elucidate what
smooth indifference precludes it from falling within history’s scope. And
kind of history the history of being represents. Against his critiques, we
will argue that it contains new possibilities, methodological and con- so what is the texture of history? Not in an abstract, metaphoric sense,
ceptual resources, which can be reactivated from our current phenome- but precisely in a formalized manner, how can we express the logical spa-
nological perspective. In this respect, some passages underline that the tiality of history? Indeed, building on Husserl’s closure and openness in
history of being would be the continuation of the phenomenological history, the event takes place both on the edge of the open void and
destruction already announced in the first pages of Being and Time. Fi- the closure of a pure point. My spatial incursion here is to argue that his-
nally, as the philosopher points out in his “Anmerkungen VII”, perhaps tory is necessarily the spatialized relation between key evental points.
the history of being would be capable of founding a different interroga- This prompts us to rethink relationality – is it a waiting? An avenir of the
tion of historiography and historical science (Historie), giving new per- subject, in Derridean terms? A pure emptiness? I argue that this historic
spectives to classical problems. We will argue that, despite its limits, we spatialization is nowhere static – it is constantly remade in light of new
can read the Heidegger of the 1930s-1940s as a rigorous but creative events. In terms of phenomenology, this likewise requires us to rethink
historian of philosophy. history from the standpoint of a subject who is fundamentally remade
every time she is caught in a new event. Thus, I offer us a new mode of
14:00-14:30 Friedrich von Petersdorff (Independent Scholar, Fronhausen) “Aspects thinking history and phenomenology – through a dialectics of logical
of ‘time and mode of being’ from a historiographical point of view” spatiality.
Abstract Roman Ingarden analysed in ‘Controversy over the Existence of the Session (Venue: Congress hall):
World’ three distinct aspects of time, namely ‘events’, ‘processes’ and ‘ob- History, Literature and Art
jects persisting in time’. Having these distinctions in mind I shall turn to Chair: Jaroslava Vydrová
epistemological and theoretical aspects of historical research and writ-
ing. In other words, I intend to discuss Ingarden’s approach from the 13:30-14:00 Mihail Evan (New Europe College in Bucharest, University of Susse) “Levinas,
point of view of historians, thereby referring to their steps throughout Historiography and Philosophy of History: An Overview of the Literature”
the processes of research and writing. To address these questions I shall
turn to epistemological studies as presented by Danto, Fleck, Popper Abstract This article seeks to survey the secondary literature on the question of
and Ricœur. – Danto analysed in his 1962 article ‘Narrative Sentences’ Levinas and history and to attempt to re-establish the debate on a sound
a significant aspect of any historian’s research and writing, namely that footing. It commences with the most recent work and proceeds backwards
such sentences (as used by historians) ‘refer to at least two time-sep- chronologically. Morgan’s review essay ‘Levinas, History and Historiography’
arated events though they only describe (are only about) the earliest which appeared in History and Theory is discussed first followed by Froey-
event to which they refer’. Any event at time A is, therefore, analysed in man’s History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other, a volume which is its
view of some later event at time B, which of course was unknown to the sole focus. The generous and welcoming assessment of the former is ques-
contemporaries experiencing the events at time A. Danto, accordingly. tioned by a demonstration that the latter is lacking in a sound grasp of Lev-
underlines in his discussion of narrative sentences as used by histori- inas’ philosophy. Morgan’s giving credence to Froeyman’s suggestion that
ans [at time C] the significant aspect that historians view the gone-by history could be primarily said to be concerned with having relationships
events and developments by referring at the same time to additional with people in the past and that the well-known work of the microhistorians
occurrences of historical significance without being immediately relat- is found to be rather surprising. Both authors fail discuss both earlier con-
ed to the analysed topic. – Ricœur, on the other hand, distinguished the tributions to the secondary literature and, most crucially, Levinas extremely
various phases of historical research, thereby – nonetheless – under- negative comments on ‘the history of the historians’ in Totality and Infinity
lining the intertwinement of these phases. – Fleck and Popper studied as well as other similar remarks to be found elsewhere in his work. These are
the process of how knowledge is being gained and achieved. – By re- explored and it is suggested there is a development whereby he comes to
ferring to the results of these theoretical discussions I shall then turn to develop a less critical attitude. Particular attention is paid to how what he
a renewed look at Ingarden’s distinctions – having, thereby, especially says of representation and the trace enables this.
in mind the possible contribution of these towards history and its re-
search, i.e. history as a knowledge of the past understood in a general 14:00-14:30 Andrej Božič (Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities in Ljubljana) “Paul
way, not limited to history of philosophy. Celan’s Poetry and the Phenomenological Tradition”

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 Abstract The poetic work of Paul Celan (1920–1970), the German-speaking author 8 September (Friday) 2023
of Jewish descent, through its dialogicality often—in-directly: implicitly or
explicitly—refers to philosophical thought: the poet was not only an atten- 09:00 Visit of the underground world of the Petrovaradin fortress (guided tour in English)
tive reader of philosophy, to which numerous, many times carefully anno-
tated books of his extensive library bear witness, but also allowed his own Parallel sessions III
creative word to respond to the multifaceted incentives of (the question/s
of) thinking. Although Celan’s concern for philosophy entails almost its en- Session (Venue: Cinema hall):
tire historical development, one can specifically discern a distinct emphasis Blaustein and Husserl
also on authors affiliated with the phenomenological movement. Whereas Chair: Nevena Jevtić
the poet’s (crucial, for the self-comprehension of his artistry co-constitutive) 11:00-11:30 Witold Płotka (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) “Phe-
relation towards the thought of M. Heidegger that led to their personal— nomenology as Descriptive Psychology? Blaustein’s Account of How to
by now nigh on mythical—meeting in Todtnauberg has already motivated Describe Mental Phenomena”
countless discussions, Celan’s readings of, and responses to, the works of oth-
er phenomenological philosophers, such as E. Husserl, O. Becker, or even H. Abstract The paper explores main components of the methodological device adopt-
Conrad-Martius, have attracted merely a handful of interpretations. The pro- ed by Blaustein in his analysis of selected types of mental phenomena. My
posed presentation will attempt to outline, first, the trace(s) of the influence task is here to determine aims, object and detailed procedures of Blaustein’s
of phenomenological tradition upon Celan’s oeuvre and, second, the effect(s) method. Blaustein was a student of Twardowski who also had an occasion
it may disclose within both his poetry as well as his (auto-) poetological writ- to study under Husserl in the summer semester of 1925. Blaustein’s doc-
ings. On the one hand, such a consideration can, thus, contribute a (small) toral dissertation, defended in 1927, concerned parts of Husserl’s theory of
chapter to the comprehensive history and historiography of the phenome- intentionality and it bore the mark of Twardowski’s account of the object
nological movement. On the other hand, it can, however, also offer a new, and content of presentations. In my paper, I discuss a thesis, popular in the
renewed perspective on the fundamental issue of the relationship between scholarly literature, that Blaustein was a phenomenologists as he studied
poetry and philosophy that is, in Celan’s case, intrinsically connected with the under Husserl and adopted his method.
problem of (the experience of) historical time, especially with regard to the By focusing on selected elements of Blaustein’s method, I will analyze
event of the Holocaust. the descriptive procedure he adopted in his writings. I will focus main-
ly on two of his texts: (1) his account of so-called imaginative presenta-
14:30-15:00 Remus Breazu (University of Bucharest) “History, Conflict, and the Work of Art” tions and (2) his examination of the cinema-goer’s experiences. Blaustein
Abstract In my presentation, I will address the relationship between history and the analyzes these phenomena by focusing on concrete mental phenomena
work of art starting from Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art. According which are decomposed by him in a descriptive procedure. Description
to Heidegger, truth occurs in the work of art, and “this happening is, in many is supplemented by abstraction which serves one to identify common
different ways, historical” (emphasis added). Heidegger understands the be- features of the analyzed phenomena. The ultimate aim of such descrip-
ing of the work of art as a strife between world and earth. Starting from here, tion is an attempt to determine laws which govern some types of certain
the middle term through which I will connect history and the work of art is phenomena. Different from Husserl, however, Blaustein is skeptical about
conflict. Drawing on Bernhard Waldenfels’ contributions to the relationship eidetic claims of such an analysis. For Blaustein, any reference to essences
between order and disorder, I aim to show that there are two types of con- is unjustified as it falls into the petitio princippi fallacy, and one should
flict that need to be considered: The conflict between world and earth within analyze concrete phenomena instead.
the work of art, and the conflict between different truths that are disclosed In conclusion, I will address the question to what extent phenomenology can
through different works of art. Thus, my presentation consists of three main be regarded as a sort of descriptive psychology. In this vein, I will emphasize
parts. As an introduction, (i) I will examine the inherent conflict that every main differences between Blaustein’s and Husserl’s account of the mental to
image presupposes according to Husserl, then (ii) I will examine the peculiar verify the thesis that Blaustein can be regarded as a phenomenologist.
dynamic between world and earth in the work of art as developed by Heide-
gger, while, in the final part, (iii) I will explore how the occurrence of truth in 11:30-12:00 Daniele Nuccilli (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) “The Prob-
the work of art is a form of violence that is different from the strife between lem of Presentations in Blaustein: A Route in the Early Phenomenology”
world and earth, which can be understood through Walter Benjamin’s notion
Abstract The theory of content of presentations and in general the question of
of mythical violence.
objects of presentations in the perceptual act represents one of the cen-
15:00-15:30 Coffee break tral topics of Blaustein’s critical interpretation of Husserlian intentionality.
This topic moreover plays a decisive role in the complex Husserlian theo-
15:30 CEESP business meeting (Venue: Cinema hall) retical transition from the Logical Investigations to his Ideas I.
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 Abstract Indeed, it is no accident that Schapp, one of Husserl’s first doctoral stu- In my paper, I would like to reconstruct Blaustein’s criticism and pose a
dent at Göttingen, in his dissertation, Contributions to the phenome- question not so much about its interpretative legitimacy—as Blaustein
nology of perception (1910), precisely explores the question of how the in his doctoral thesis focuses almost exclusively on the presentation of
world presents itself in consciousness through colours and sounds. Both Husserl’s views from Logische Untersuchungen—but rather about its sub-
Blaustein’s and Schapp’s interpretations lead to a personal recasting of stantive persuasiveness in the light of Husserl’s late philosophy.
the theory of intentionality and the perceptual act and shed some light One of the main claim of Blaustein’s criticism is that Husserl does not dis-
on one of the decisive crossroads in the history of early phenomenology. tinguish between “sensing” and “sensed content” and for that reason hyl-
It is in approaching the consideration of sensation as the presenting con- etic data remain something vague and ambiguous, even though they are
tent of objects of the external world in fact that the issue of phenomeno- considered by Husserl to be ichfremd. Using Sartre’s term, this non-inten-
logical reduction becomes more urgent. After pointing out how the topic tional hyle seems to be a sort of étre hybride, having both the properties
of presentation is addressed by Husserl before and after the introduction of things and of consciousness.
of phenomenological reduction, in this paper, I will outline Blaustein’s I would like to argue, however, that the proper understanding of meaning
critical position that he has laid out in his doctoral dissertation Husserl’s of Ichfremdheit of hyletic data in Husserl depends on taking two factors
Theory of Act, Content and Object of Presentation (1928) and relate it to the into account: (1) Husserl’s specific transcendental perspective, and (2)
interpretation of other figures of early phenomenology, such as Schapp genetic perspective in phenomenology. Both of these perspectives are
and Hoffmann. As will see, the way in which the role of sensations is un- absent in Blaustein’s reading, who comprehends Husserl through the lens
derstood in the context of presentations of objects and the relationship it of Brentano’s and Twardowsk’’s psychology, and rejects both the transcen-
establishes with the perceptual act constitutes one of the building blocks dental and eidetic claims of phenomenology. It is possible to show that in
for the construction of a method that would investigate the relationship the light of Husserl’s late transcendental-genetic concept of conscious-
between consciousness and the external world.because we all shape our ness, the thesis about the “belonging of sensuous hyle to consciousness”
existential movement through the lifeworld in a continuous encounter takes on a meaning that descriptive psychology is unable to spell out.
with other people, in a complex interplay between the background of In this way, the systematic and historical value and limits of Blaustein’s
past experiences, our present concern in action, and the future goals we criticism will be defined.
project (Gallagher 2008, 90). In Husserl, the transtemporal horizon of con-
sciousness shows that my past experiences have effects on the way that Session (Venue: Congress hall):
I understand the world and the people I encounter in the world (Husserl Theology, time and expectations
1973). I experience the spatial and temporal intersubjectivity of my per- Chair: Uldis Vēgners
sonal world (Ideas II, § 50). Personal world is made up not only by over- 11:00-11:30 Michal Lipták (Institute of Philosophy SAS) “God without God: Husserl’s
lapping histories belonging to individuals but also by a common shared Philosophical Theology and Its Place in History of Philosophy”
history belonging to groups and communities, and more in general, to
the anonymity of the generational succession of humanity in the uncan- Abstract As demonstrated in pioneering studies by Stephen Laycock and James
niness of history (Ricoeur, 2000). We live in the threefold reign of prede- Hart, Husserl’s phenomenology had peculiar religious undercurrent, de-
cessors, contemporaries, and successors (Schutz, 1967), and it seems that spite God being “bracketed” most of the time in his texts. Remarks on
understanding history depends on the capacity to hold together this God and religion were scattered, for example, in Ideen I, Hua XV or Kaizo
transgenerational continuity. History is not just the understanding of the articles (Hua XXVII). With publication of Hua XLII (containing most of con-
past, but it has to do with a common capacity to image new beginnings volute A V 21), however, Husserl’s writings on philosophical theology be-
that may interrupt or divert the chains of events set in motion in the gen- came widely available. For Husserl, the idea of God is operative in the very
erational succession (Arendt 1994). limit problems of phenomenology: the very possibility of hyletic flow on
one hand, and teleological establishment of transcendental community
12:00-12:30 Filip Borek (University of Warsaw, Charles University in Prague) “Ichfremd- as condition of possibility of intersubjectivity on the other. Less technical-
heit: Blaustein’s Criticism of the Husserlian Concept of Hyletic Data in the ly, these writings concern questions of creation [die Schöpfung] and fate
Light of Husserl’s Late Philosophy” [das Schicksal]. In my paper, I will argue that this occupation with religion
and theological questions connects Husserl’s phenomenology strongly
Abstract The concept of sensuous hyle is one of Husserl’s most widely discussed to philosophical development of German philosophy throughout 19th
ideas. Beside such thinkers as Ingarden, Patočka, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre or and early 20th century, concluding philosophical-historical arc that starts
Henry, one of the critics of the hyletic data theory was Leopold Blaustein. with Hegel. I will begin with thesis from Jon Stewart’s recent book “that
In his 1928 doctoral dissertation on Husserl, Blaustein describes and criti- religion plays an absolutely central and constitutive role in the develop-
cally discusses Husserl’s concept of hyletic content. ment of philosophy” during 19th century and that “concept of alienation
is one that connects philosophy and religion in this period” (2021, 10).
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 When philosophico-historical lens are applied to Husserl’s occupation I would like, in this presentation, to bring Anders’ contribution in the con-
with religion, his phenomenology can actually be read as late addition text of his reflections on time and history, in particular in his phenomenol-
to this tradition, even with problem of alienation implicitly present in his ogy of historical expectations and the transformations of the experience
phenomenology. Moreover, this approach also discloses Husserl as, de- of time. They are found above all in the two volumes of Die Antiquiertheit
spite himself, Hegelian to some degree, part of “Hegel’s century”. Uncov- des Menschen (1956 and 1980), and Endzeit und Zeitenende (1972). In a
ering these historical roots of Husserlian phenomenology can significant- first moment, I would like to analyse what Anders understands under the
ly contribute to contemporary phenomenology’s self-understanding, idea of a “spatialisation of time”, which appears in his essay “Sein ohne Zeit”
reminding us that despite more intense focus on minute investigations of (present in the first volume of the Antiquiertheit), which is dedicated to an
particular phenomena (especially prevalent in current critical or engaged interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s play En attendant Godot. Analogous to
phenomenology), great, “eternal” philosophical questions, preceding the experience of history after 1945, when the notion of the future chang-
phenomenology’s birth, still inevitably lurk behind all such investigations. es structurally, Anders observes that in the play time becomes “temporal-
ly neutral”: the notion of advance and change no longer appears as some-
11:30-12:00 Michal Zvarík (Trnava University) “The Meaning of Sacrum in Jan Patoč- thing grounded in time and history, which implies an analysis of temporal
ka’s Philosophy of History” affections, namely, of the difference here between warten, erwarten and
hoffen. In a second moment, we will seek to analyse this shift in histor-
Abstract In my contribution I will elaborate on two of Jan Patočka’s ideas. The first
ical experience as Anders interprets it in his essay Die Frist, in which he
is his understanding of history as sedimented moral experience. The sec-
presents a secularised view of eschatological expectations in the nuclear
ond is formed by his reflections on the nature of sacrum and its relation
age (which become equally actual in the epoch of climate collapse). The
to the care for the soul. The distinction between sacrum and profanum
core of our investigation is therefore the idea of the future as “lived time”,
Patočka introduced in the fifth of his Heretical Essays. Contrary to secular as also Eugène Minkowski elaborates it in his classic Temps vécu (1933).
view neglecting its relevance, for Patočka the dimensions of sacrum and
profanum are not only an anthropological constant, but from ontological 12:30-13:30 Lunch break
perspective they present for human being a challenge of subjecting them
to responsibility. Patočka’s reflections opens questions concerning the Session (Venue: Cinema hall):
meaning of holiday as a time of celebration distinct from everydayness Patočka, notion of crisis and war
of profanum as dimension of alienating work and labour. Sacral holiday Chair: Michal Zvarík
might provide temporary relief from the toils of labour, but such relief
13:30-14:00 Jozef Majernik (Slovak Academy of Sciences) “Patočka’s Husserlian Phi-
might not overcome human alienation. Quite contrary, through ecstatic
losophy of History”
immersion it might be even deepened. Thus, the human being can over-
come the alienating power of sacrum only via care for the soul consist- Abstract This paper is a reading of Jan Patočka’s philosophy of history through the
ing in opening towards problematicity. I will develop this idea in relation Husserlian figure of the Urgeometer from The Origin of Geometry. The Ur-
to concept of history as sedimented moral experience. The past with its geometer is Husserl’s solution to the question of how ideal objects can
own problematicity becomes present through sedimented meanings, have a temporal or historical origin. I will argue that Patočka’s philosophy
which might be re-activated, re-lived. From Patočka’s perspective, the of history can be fruitfully understood as an extension or elaboration of
true historical event is formed by facing and adopting of problematicity this model, with Socrates taking the place of the Urgeometer.
in care for the soul. With the conversion of relation to sacrum in care for Patočka interprets Socrates as the discoverer of care for the soul, of the
the soul is also modified the meaning of holiday. It does not only provide activity of questioning thinking that aims at an examined unity of all our
an ecstatic relief from everydayness but entails a call for conversion, for views and opinions, and of the philosophic life as life oriented toward this
overcoming alienation in responsibility for own being. Holiday provide an activity (CW 2, 229–31/ PaE 91–3). It is no accident that Patočka describes
opportunity of re-activation of the meaning of the past event and endow him as the discoverer of the problem of measure for human actions – and
the present with its light threatened by everyday concerns. of the solution to it (CW 2, 49–50; 3, 739). The origin of care for the soul,
which is the perennial model of individual as well as communal good life,
12:00-12:30 Felipe Catalani (University of São Paulo) “Future as lived time: Günther in Socrates thus has for Patočka the same kind of “exemplary significance”
Anders on time, history and historical expectations” as the origin of geometry does for Husserl (OG 365/ 353).
Thereafter I will show that Patočka’s account of European history takes the
Abstract Although Günther Anders was a student of Heidegger and Husserl, who Socratic-Platonic care for the soul as its standard by which political forma-
was his doctoral advisor in the early 1920s, and although the phenome- tions are judged. Care for the soul formed the spiritual core of pre-mod-
nological approach is charateristic not only of his early writings but also ern Europe, and its forgetting is the cause of the crisis of modernity as
of his mature critique of culture, his work is rarely taken into account in Patočka understands it; and the solution to this crisis is the recovery of
the history of phenomenological thought. Socratic-Platonic care for the soul.
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 I shall conclude by arguing – against Patočka himself – that the Husserlian Second, the past frequently becomes concealed or takes on a semblance
historical model is more suitable for Patočka’s historical-political thought character through being unheeded, unminded or non- remembered
than the Heideggerian radical historicism that is the avowed basis of Pa- (ἀμνηστούμενα) due to the influence of (1) enduring past loyalties, (2)
točka’s philosophy of history in the Heretical Essays. stories about the past currently in circulation, or (3) wanting to tell a good
story oneself about past events.
14:00-14:30 Christian Murphy (Leiden University) “Iatrogenic Crisis: What Patočka’s
Thucydides’ practices of interviewing multiple witnesses and drawing on
historical schema reveals of the origins of Husserl’s crisis”
physical and documentary traces of the past seek to counteract temporal
Abstract In his 1936 lecture on the topic of “The Radical Life-crisis of European Hu- oblivion and the influence of circumstantial exigencies and so to access
manity”, Edmund Husserl identified “a crisis which developed very early the truth or clarity of bygone events (τῶν τε γενομένων τὸ σαφὲς). His
in modern philosophy and science and which extends with increasing inquiry has political import as he shows the human inclination towards
intensity to our own day”. His erstwhile student Jan Patočka developed semblance is central to the unfolding of disastrous events of the war itself,
the thematics of Husserl’s analysis in applying a unique historical schema a fact the protagonists remain largely blind to. I illustrate this by focusing
on Thucydides’ vivid account of how unfounded stories about past events
to the phenomenology of crisis. I will put forth a radical reading of Patoč-
fuel anxiety, suspicion, and a spiralling cycle of false accusations, extra-ju-
ka’s historical schema culminating in crisis as a reaction to the burden of
dicial killings, and social breakdown in the charged atmosphere of Athens
historic problematicity and, in turn, claim that historical existence itself
in 425 BCE (VI.53-61).
had emerged in opposition to the burdensome conditions of pre-history.
Using Illich’s term, I label this process of oppositional reactions generat- This paper concludes by distinguishing this approach to unconcealing
ing new (existential-historical) conditions which bear within the seeds of the past as such from Martin Heidegger’s understanding of the moment
their own counter-reaction ‘iatrogenic’. of historical decision, which he illustrates in his 1924-5 Plato’s Sophist
course using an example from Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War (III.38).
I will begin by discussing Husserl’s uncovering of our crisis, and then show
how Transcendental phenomenology fails in his aim to resolve the crisis Session (Venue: Congress hall):
he had identified. Subsequently, I introduce Patočka’s notion of prob- Affectivity and Time
lematicity to reframe the crisis in its historicised unfolding. The concept Chair: Andrej Božić
of problematicity and its historicised origins is crucial to understanding
Husserl’s crisis as a historical phenomenon. I will argue that, for Patoč- 13:30-14:00 Uldis Vēgners (University of Latvia, Rīga Stradiņš University) “When time
ka, this crisis is that of an inauthentically de-problematised experience of stands still: in search of the phenomenology of timelessness”
life. I will then show how Patočka’s division of time into the ‘non-historic’, Abstract Time, temporality, historicity and finality are themes that have been
‘pre-historic’ and ‘historic’ indicates the conditions under which crisis is prominent in the history of phenomenology. The fact that our experien-
generated and sustained. tial existence and the world we experience is changing, is considered in
This proves very productive for our consideration of crisis, and the ques- phenomenology as an inevitable, fundamental fact of our lives. Never-
tion of its contemporary (non-)resolution, because, I argue, for Patočka, theless, there are people who claim to have transcended their temporal-
the crisis is resolvable only inasmuch as historical problematicity remains ity, that is, to have experienced time standing still and eternity. In other
irresolvable. In considering the iatrogenic origins of crisis, therefore, our words, people have documented and described their experiences, which
abilities to recognise and critique its contemporary manifestations are re- can be characterized as extra-temporal. Such cases are described, for
newed and expanded. example, in the context of mystical experiences, meditation and trance
states, psychopathological conditions (like schizophrenia and depres-
14:30-15:00 Aengus Daly (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) “Escaping the Lure of
sion), and near-death experiences. From the perspective of the classical
Circumstances: Access to the Past in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War”
phenomenology, a claim for a timeless experience seems to be at least
Abstract In what experiential contexts does the past become a problem? What controversial, as it goes against the fundamental fact of the temporal na-
motivates inquiry into bygone events? This paper explores these ques- ture of our experience. Also, the language that is used to describe the ex-
tions through a phenomenological interpretation of Thucydides’ The Pe- periences of timelessness often appears ambiguous, incomplete, overly
loponnesian War, one of the first works of Western historiography. I argue general, vague, and even paradoxical, which makes the claim even more
Thucydides’ methodological reflections (I.20-23) respond to the problem problematic. And this raises a set of questions: what is truly experienced
of a twofold concealment of the past. First, the past is only accessible to when people claim to experience the cessation of time or timelessness;
us for a while before becoming lost to memory through time (χρόνῳ whether it is phenomenologically justified to claim that they have expe-
ἀμνηστούμενα). rienced timelessness or eternity; how to best and most accurately phe-
nomenologically describe and conceptualize such experiences;

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 and in what sense, if at all, the timelessness can be experienced? In this well as the way in which gestures themselves, as bodily movements, can
context, the aim of this presentation is to outline the problem and to ini- reactivate latent meaning layers or even institute new meanings, like it
tiate a discussion whether a phenomenology of timelessness, which spe- is the case, for example, in the process of learning. This shows that, far
cifically and concretely attempts to describe experience of timelessness, from being a secondary or auxiliary mode of expression, gestures are es-
is possible, and what might be the essential questions, tasks, methodo- sentially connected with and shape elements of personal history while
logical and conceptual tools, as well as obstacles to its development. revealing, at the same time, their social embeddedness.

14:00-14:30 Anna Yampolskaya (Independent Scholar, Moscow) “Affectivity as histor- 15:00-15:30 Coffee break
ical dimension of subjectivity”
Abstract In Jan Patočka’s Heretical Essays, a central question that emerges in the
Abstract One of the idiosyncratic features of the new French phenomenology is analysis of our technological civilization is “whether historical humans are
to treat phenomenon as an affect, a trauma, an event that has always al- still willing to embrace history.” The question can only be understood, I
ready occurred. The author of this event is never the subject; the subject suggest, in its significance and relevance to our age if viewed within a
is not merely receptive with regards to this event but is passive in the ab- specific configuration of concepts that place in relief the distinctive place
solute sense to the point of being constituted by the event. This depend- of history within Patočka’s project. While Husserl’s and Heidegger’s ques-
ence on the primal trauma, and thus on the world shared with others, tioning revolves around the relationship between history and philoso-
constitutes a historical dimension of subjectivity. The subject of the new phy, for Patočka it is the unity of philosophy, politics, and history, which
French phenomenology has a body that is vulnerable, and in fact always gives his reflection its specific orientation.
already wounded. However, affectivity is not reduced to vulnerability or Technological civilization can best be understood, according to Patočka,
traumatic experience. A wound is not merely felt or shifted to the past, it as a historical and specific relation to truth, one that constrains and limits
is lived and worked through, transforming the structures of meaning. The possibilities of freedom. He offers an extraordinarily striking phenomeno-
living body of a subject becomes a kind of historical account written in a logical reading of the Xorismos in Plato which, I will argue, allows for the
language of wounds, raptures, and catastrophes. realization of the unity of philosophy, history, and politics, through what
he is primarily known for, the care of the soul. The experience of Xorismos
14:30-15:00 Alexandru Bejinariu (“Alexandru Dragomir”, Institute for Philosophy, Ro- as negative freedom is what underpins history as an exercise of freedom.
manian Society for Phenomenology) “A Phenomenological Approach to History for Patočka is made; it does not happen. This view of history is
the Historicity of Gestures” what allows Patočka to propose the notion of sacrifice as a historical re-
sponse to the dangers of technique. This is because care of the soul is
Abstract What distinguishes a gesture from a mere knee-jerk reaction or a func-
itself always a practice of sacrifice. It is the place from which we can truly
tional movement? Do gestures have a history and is it the same as the his-
embrace history—meaning, in the most pragmatic sense, the place from
tory of their meanings? What does it mean to learn a gesture or through a
which we can act rather than submit to unknown forces.
gesture? As some thinkers argue (Flusser) an added element of meaning,
irreducible to any causal explanation, is the fundamental trait that sepa-
rates gestures as a species of bodily movement. But this meaning is never
(including the case of self-oriented gestures) abstractly constituted and
indifferent to any cultural or social context. Thus in order to grasp the es-
sential meaning constitution at the heart of gestures, a phenomenolog-
ical account of their historical genesis is required. The trivial observation
that one and the same gesture does not mean the same thing in different
cultures and historical contexts, reveals that the process of gesture appre-
hension itself is in fact historically determined. In other words, gestural
meaning is not a mere label added to a movement, but it emerges and is
transmitted through lived, situated interaction in a complex web of his-
torical typifications and cultural sedimentations determined both on the
higher level of community and on that of the individual. Hence, this paper
investigates the historical genesis of gestural eaning in the context of the
dynamic between the individual level of constitution and the all-encom-
passing cultural one. More precisely, by drawing on Husserl’s key concept
of sedimentation (Hua XI), it attempts to trace both how the gestural mo-
dality of expression is determined by sedimented (bodily) meanings, as
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 Biographies
Ugo Vlaisavljevic is a full professor of philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, where
he teaches the epistemology of social sciences and theories of identity construction.
Editor-in-chief of the journal of philosophy and social sciences Dialogue, Sarajevo (2006-
2013), member of the editorial board of the international journal Transeuropéennes, Paris
(2000-2011), president of PEN Centre B&H (2006-2009), member of International advi-
sory board of the journal of phenomenology and hermeneutics Phainomena, Ljubljana
(2015-present). He has written widely on phenomenology, post-structuralism, semiotics,
and political philosophy (particularly on ethnicity and nationalism, gender equality, the
rebirth of religion, peace and reconciliation issues). He has published numerous articles
in English, French, German, Italian, and Hungarian journals and book collections. Among
the twelve books published in his country are: The Phenomenological Constitution of the
European Community (1996), The Origin of Geometry and the Transcendental Phenomenol-
ogy of History (2003), Lepoglava and University, Essays in Political Epistemology (2003), Mer-
leau-Ponty’s semiotics of perception, The Phenomenological Way into Deconstruction (2004),
Ethno-politics and Citizenship (2006), War – the Greatest Cultural Event. A Contribution to Se-
miotics of Ethno-nationalism (2007), A Ghostly Reality of the Narrative Politics (2012), and The
Aporias of Coexistence (2018).
Dragan D. Prole is Full Professor of Philosophy (Ontology, Philosophical Anthropology,
Phenomenology of Alien) and the guest lecturer at Academy of Arts (Aesthetics, Contem-
porary Aesthetics). A member of Editorial Board of several philosophical journals (Conatus,
Athens, Greece, Phainomena, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Društveni pregled, Sarajevo, BiH, The-
ologos, Belgrade, Serbia, Epistemes, Metron, Logos, Athens). He has published ten books
in Serbian as the single author, and ten anthologies as the editor or the co-editor. Prole had
study visits to University of Berlin, Weimar, Leuven, Graz, Heidelberg and Vienna. He has
been invited as a visiting lecturer to several Universities (Leuven Husserl Memorial Lecture
2019, Uppsala, Krakow, Athens, Ljubljana, Vienna, Oßmannstedt, Weimar, Skopje, Prague,
Budapest). He received five awards for his books (best book in philosophy, theory of lit-
erature and art in 2011 (Humanity of the Foreign Man), best book of the year 2013, award
“Stevan Pešić” 2013 (Inner Outland. Philosophical Reflections on Romanticism), and best
essays award “Sreten Marić” (Appearances of the Absent) in 2016, and “Radomir Konstan-
tinović” Charter 2020 (Equality of the Unequal. Phenomenology and the Early avant-garde
Movements). He has translated seven books from German into Serbian (Edmund Husserl,
First Philosophy, Bernhard Waldenfels, F.W.J. Schelling, Boris Groys).
Jaroslava Vydrová is A Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Acad-
emy of Sciences in Bratislava. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal for human sciences
Ostium. She teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Trnava University. Her
research is focused on the phenomenological method, the manuscripts of the late Husserl,
the philosophical anthropology of H. Plessner, the problem of subjectivity, corporeality
and intersubjectivity. Her latest works deal with the problems of intertwining of phenom-
enology and philosophical anthropology, particularly address the problem of expressivity,
living body, emotions as well as cultural phenomena, creativity, works of art and play. Her
most recent texts include: Possibilities of a Hand: A Phenomenological Perspective (2022),
The (Non)place of Human – Challenges Concerning the Question of God in Helmuth Pless-
ner’s Philosophical Anthropology (2023), Man as a Being of Hygiene in a Phenomenologi-
cal and Anthropological Perspective (2023).
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Emanuele Mariani is a senior researcher at the Alma Mater Studiorium - University of Cristian Ciocan (Habil. University of Bucharest 2015, Ph.D. University of Paris IV – Sorbonne
Bologna since 2021, following a long period as (a researcher) at the University of Lisbon 2009, Ph.D. University of Bucharest 2006) is a member of the Doctoral School in Philosophy
(from 2012 to 2021). He obtained his PhD under the direction of J. L. Marion in 2010 at the of the University of Bucharest, and senior scientific researcher at the Institute of the Uni-
Sorbonne University (Paris IV) with a thesis on the concept of analogy in the Aristotelian versity of Bucharest (ICUB). He is President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology
tradition of phenomenology. He is a member of the research laboratory “Savoirs, Textes (founded in 2000), Vice-President of the Central and East European Society for Phenom-
et Langage” at the University of Lille and of various international phenomenology asso- enology (CEESP), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He was a
ciations. His main research interests focus on the first phase of Phenomenology and the Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Uni-
relationship between phenomenology and psychology – from Trendelenburg to Brentano versity of Freiburg and of the New Europe College. He was Principal Investigator in the
via Husserl to early Heidegger. In 2012 he published Nothing but Being. Ricerche sull’analo- following research projects: “The Body In-Between” (2010–2013); “Phenomenological
gia e la tradizione aristotelica della fenomenologia (ETS, Pisa) and in 2023 he translated into Approaches to the Anthropological Difference” (2015–2017); “The Structures of Conflict:
French Trendelenburg’s Aristoteles Kategorienlehre. A Phenomenological Approach to Violence” (2017–2019); “Imagistic violence. A phenome-
nological approach” (2021–2023)
Luka Janeš is Assistant Professor. In 2020 he defended his PhD thesis on the field of philos-
ophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia). From Sandro Herr studied philosophy and ethnology at the universities of Heidelberg and Lis-
2017 he is a scientific associate of Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, managing bon. He completed his M.A. with an inter-textual interpretation of Nietzsche’s “Will to Pow-
its scientific board for Bioethics and Psyche. From 2021 he works as an assistant teacher er” thought. The thesis is entitled “The Affirmation of the Plurality of Wills - A Task of Con-
at the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb. Giving classes on sciousness with Nietzsche” and will be published in 2024. Currently, Sandro Herr is doing
the various faculties at the University of Zagreb, he published two collected paper books his PhD in a cotutelle-procedure under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Schnell in Wup-
and more than thirty scientific articles so far. Currently he is preparing an authorship book pertal as well as Prof. Hans Rainer Sepp in Prague. His dissertation investigates with the
and a couple of the collected paper books as an editor. Participated on more than sixty phenomenon of problematicity in philosophical thinking. With the help of Gilles Deleuze
conferences with disseminations, as well as organized numerous conferences and public and Eugen Fink, the relationship between problem and problematicity is examined as fun-
discussion, mostly on the mental health, bioethics and phenomenology topics. He is one damental for the emergence, definition and solvability of philosophical problems. Other
of the facilitators of the Philosophy Cafe in Zagreb. 2019 gained APPA Philosophical Prac- research interests of Sandro Herr include ancient philosophy, rationalism, German ideal-
tice certificate, and is a second year student of the logotherapy education. ism, phenomenology, literary theory, and 20th century French philosophy. A number of
publications have appeared in this area, such as “Philosophy - Literature: A Moving along
Toma Gruica is a doctoral student at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Institute of Phi-
Convergent Series” (2019) and “Tropology of the Body: Turnings between Nietzsche, de
losophy. His specialization lies in phenomenology and postmodern European philosophy,
Man, and Serres” (2020).
and under the guidance and supervision of Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, he is preparing his thesis
titled “Embodied Cognition and Authenticity: A Heideggerian Perspective on Psychopa- Liya Zou She will be graduating as an undergraduate with an MA degree on Philosophy in
thology” 2024 from the University of Edinburgh. Over the past year, she was on the funded Erasmus
program to study at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her main focus area of research
Sergej Valijev graduated from the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium, Ljubljana, after which
is history of phenomenology and naturalization of phenomenology. She is also the author
he earned a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich,
of the book Les Champinons.
in 2017 (Jean-Luc Marions Interpretation des Ego Cogito von Descartes) and a Master’s
degree in classics from Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, in 2020 (The Theme of Tragic Knowledge Andrija Jurić is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. He
and the Motive of Heracles’ Death in Trachiniae and Hercules on Oeta). Since 2021, he has completed his undergraduate studies in 2017 with a thesis titled “Consciousness: The Con-
been enrolled in a PhD program in Literary Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana (super- dition of Possibility for Man and Spirit.” In 2018, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy
visor Brane Senegačnik). Since 2022, he is a junior research fellow at the Institute of Slove- with his thesis “The Difference Between Consciousness and Conscious State: Method of
nian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences Constructing Consciousness in the Philosophy of Мind.” His special areas of interest include
and Arts (supervisor Monika Deželak Trojar). His main research areas are ancient tragedy, philosophical egology, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy,
philosophy in late antiquity, Christian philosophy and theology, both eastern and western, and existentialism. He has authored multiple scientific papers, participated in several do-
phenomenology and existentialism. mestic and international scientific conferences, and is a member of the Croatian Philosoph-
ical Society.
Michalis Dagtzis is a PhD Candidate of Philosophy at the University of Athens specializing
in ontology and politics of phenomenology working on a dissertation with the title “The Andrej Jovićević studies Philosophy at KU Leuven. His areas of interest are metaphysics,
political ontology of Hannah Arendt and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: a potential synthesis”. philosophy of science, and history of philosophy. He is currently studying the works of
Specifically, his ongoing research focuses on the ontological relation between the Mer- Gilles Deleuze with an aim of understanding the overarching systematicity of his meta-
leaupontyan “chiasm” and the Arendtian “in-between” with the aim to assess the potential physics. Previously, he published an article on Gilbert Simondon’s use of quantum me-
for a new political background. His research interests, besides the interaction of ontology chanics in Philosophy and Society 33(3), and wrote on Heidegger’s understanding of truth
and politics in the field of phenomenology, lie in the relation between history and politics, and its possible intersections with paraconsistent logic. He recently published a book re-
culture and politics as well as postmodernity and identity politics. view in Deleuze and Guattari Studies 17(3).
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Joseph Cohen is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin (Ireland). He has experience: Kant, Husserl, Heidegger” (Russian State University for the Humanities, 2008).
held numerous visiting professorships of philosophy at various European universities He is scientific employee and assistant professor of the Center for the Phenomenological
in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium. He has authored Le spectre juif de Hegel Philosophy of the department of philosophy of Russian State University for the Humanities
(Paris, Galilée, 2005), Le sacrifice de Hegel (Paris, Galilée, 2007), Alternances de la méta- (2008-2020). He is Assistant professor of the Department of philosophy and sociology of
physique. Essais sur E. Levinas (Paris, Galilée, 2009) and co-authored, with D. Moran, The the Russian Presidential Academy for National Economy and Public Administration (2015-
Husserl Dictionary (London, Bloomsbury-Continuum, 2012). He has also co-authored, 2023). He is Assistant professor of the Center for the Phenomenological Philosophy of the
with R. Zagury-Orly, L’adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les Juifs et nous, (Paris, Galilée, department of philosophy of Russian State University for the Humanities (since Septem-
2021). He has co-edited, with R. Zagury-Orly, Heidegger et « les juifs » (Paris, Grasset, ber 2023). He was scholarship recipient of joint research program between Russian State
2015), Heidegger. Qu’appelle-t-on le lieu? (Paris, Gallimard, 2008), Derrida. L’événe- University for the Humanities and Karl-Franz University of Graz (February – July 2011, Graz,
ment déconstruction (Paris, Gallimard, 2012) and Judéités – questions pour Jacques Austria) and DAAD (2013-2014, Husserl-Archive of the University of Cologne, Germany).
Derrida (Paris, Galilée, 2003). He is the Founder and Lead Project Investigator of “Jewish He is Member of the editorial board of the “Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology”. His main
Thought and Contemporary Philosophy” at the Newman Centre for the Study of Reli- research interests are: Phenomenology, German Idealism, problem of the world, concept
gions, University College Dublin. His philosophical research is focused on contempo- of subjectivity, ontology, historicity, reduction, and otherness.
rary continental philosophy and the questions of sacrifice and history, forgiveness and
Natalia Artemenko is Professor PhD in Philosophy, at St. Petersburg State University, In-
alterity, truth and justice.
stitute of Philosophy; Editor-in-chief: «HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology», St. Peters-
Dalius Jonkus is a professor of Philosophy at the Vytautas Magnus university (Kaunas, Lith- burg; Head of the Master’s Program “Phenomenological Philosophy” She published several
uania). He is president of Lithuanian Society for Phenomenology. He has published arti- works such as: Haideggerovskaja „poterjannaja” rukopis‘: Na puti k “Bytiu i vremeni / Zu Mar-
cles on Husserl, Heidegger, Ortega y Gasset, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas. Recently he published tin Heideggers Interpretation von Aristoteles. Der wiederaufgefundene. (Monograph) She
“Phenomenological approaches to self-consciousness and the unconscious (Moritz Geiger translated following books: Husserl E. Die Idee der Phänomenologie: 5 Vorlesungen; Text
and Vasily Sesemann) in Studia phenomenologica. 2015, Vol. 15: Early phenomenology. p. nach Husserliana, Heidegger M. Phänomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles (An-
225-237; “Vasily Sesemann’s theory of knowledge, and its phenomenological relevance”. zeige der hermeneutischen Situation). Heidegger M. Phänomenologische Interpretationen
In: Early phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe: main figures, ideas, and problems ausgewählter Abhandlungen des Aristoteles zur Ontologie und Logik She published several
/ editors Witold Płotka, Patrick Eldridge. Cham: Springer, 2020, p. 93-110; “Critical ontology papers such as: Cataleptic consciousness. Language as a figure of silence // Rivista di Estetica,
and critical realism. The responses of Nicolai Hartmann and Vasily Sesemann to Husserl’s 2018. , The Problem of Passive Constitution in Husserl’s Genetic Phenomenology // Horizon.
idealism” In: The Idealism-Realism Debate Among Edmund Husserl’s Early Followers and Studies in Phenomenology, 2019. — Vol. 8(2), A New Type of Subjectivity in the Works of
Critics. Ed. Parker, Rodney K. B. Springer. 2021, p. 99 – 116. His publications include Experi- Dmitry Prigov // Problemos. 2020. — Vol. 98, — P. 154–169. GUSTAV ŠPET’S HERMENEUTI-
ence and Reflection: Horizons of Phenomenological Philosophie (Vytautas Magnus university CAL PHENOMENOLOGY; PROJECT: HIS REINTERPRETATION OF HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLO-
Press, 2009). The Philosophy of Vasily Sesemann: A Phenomenology of Self-awareness and GY // Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe; Main Figures, Ideas, and Prob-
Aesthetic Experience (Vytautas Magnus university Press, 2015). lems. Contributions to Phenomenology Vol. 113, Springer, 2020, — pp. 59-74. Tematizaciya
sfery passivnosti v fenomenologii E. Gusserlya i problema intersub‘ektivnogo mira / VOPROSY
Jan Strassheim (Dr. Phil., Freie Universität Berlin 2013) is a co-opted member of the In-
FILOSOFII — №8, 2020. P. 193-203. Artemenko, N. & Van Brabant, J., LEVEN ZONDER
stitute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim (Germany), where he was principal
GROND // De Uil van Minerva — 35(2), 2022. P. 93-102. (Selected)
investigator of the federally funded (DFG) project “Towards an Anthropology of Relevance”
from 2020 to 2023. His research focuses on the intersection of phenomenology, social the- Mark Losoncz defended his PhD thesis at the University of Novi Sad with the title The
ory, semiotics, and intercultural philosophy (especially Japanese philosophy). A main refer- Concept of Time in Bergson’s and Husserl’s Philosophy. He accomplished part of his doctoral
ence is Alfred Schutz’s unfinished social theory built around “relevance” as a fundamental research at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. As a postdoctoral
phenomenological concept. Publications include “Relevance theories of communication: researcher, he was the guest of the Institute of Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Alfred Schutz in dialogue with Sperber and Wilson” (Journal of Pragmatics 2010), the Ger- in Munich. He is a researcher at the University of Belgrade (Institute for Philosophy and
man-language monograph “Sinn und Relevanz” (Springer 2015), “Type and spontaneity. Social Theory) since 2011. His research interests include: consciousness studies, theories of
Beyond Alfred Schutz’s theory of the social world” (Human Studies 2016), “Language and sense of reality, philosophy of love, philosophy & spirituality, philosophy & psychotherapy.
lifeworld: Schutz and Habermas on idealization” (Civitas 2017), the multidisciplinary edited He has published several works on the Hungarian minority community in Serbia. He is the
volume “Relevance and Irrelevance,” co-ed. with Hisashi Nasu (de Gruyter 2018), “Kant and author and/or editor of thirteen books. His works are published in English, French, German,
the Scandal of Intersubjectivity: Alfred Schutz’s Anthropology of Transcendence” (Palgrave Serbian/Croatian, Romanian, Slovenian and Hungarian.
Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology, ed. Cynthia Coe 2021), “Relevance as
Gaetan Hulot after a Master’s degree in Louvain (Belgium) as part of the Erasmus Mundus
the Moving Ground of Semiosis” (2022, Philosophies), and “Neoliberalism and Post-Truth:
program, he finished at 2022 a PhD in Sorbonne University in Paris (France) about Hus-
Expertise and the Market Model” (Theory, Culture & Society 2022).
serl and the phenomenological reduction. I am currently teaching at Nova International
Mikhail Belousov graduated from the department of philosophy of Russian State Uni- Schools in Skopje (Macedonia).
versity for the Humanities (2005). Completed a PhD thesis “Time and possibility of the

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César Gómez Algarra has PhD in History of Philosophy (Université Laval, Québec, Canada; chive of the University of Cologne. He is the winner of “The 2011 CARP Directors’ Memorial
Universitat de València, Spain). His PhD Dissertation Topic was: Humanity and Da-sein in Prize in Honour of José Huertas-Jourda.” He is member of the Husserl Circle, former Secre-
Heidegger’s Private Writings (1936-1948). He is Postdoc Researcher (APOSTD/Valencia) at tary of the Polish Phenomenological Association, and President of the Central and East Eu-
Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Universitat de València (Spain). His main ropean Society for Phenomenology (CEESP). He published three books, numerous articles,
Areas of research are: Heidegger and French Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, Marc Richir) and edited several volumes. His works were published, e.g., by “Human Studies,” “Phenom-
at the crossroads with Philosophical Anthropology (Gehlen, Blumenberg) enology and the Cognitive Sciences,” or “Journal of the British Society for Phenomenolo-
gy.” Recently he published (edited together with Patrick Eldridge) Early Phenomenology
Friedrich von Petersdorff studied philosophy, history as well as media. He obtained his
in Central and Eastern Europe: Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems (Springer, 2020). Now he
M.A. (Magister Artium) in Marburg, Germany, and is now an independent scholar. His re-
fork on the monograph on Leopold Blaustein’s philosophy.
search is mainly focused on the epistemological and theoretical questions regarding his-
toriography. His aim is to achieve a better understanding of the procedures and the un- Daniele Nuccilli has a post-doc position at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in War-
derlying structures involved in historical research and in historical writing. He, therefore, saw (UKSW) within the SONATA BIS project entitled “Leopold Blaustein’s Philosophy in
analyses not only the methodological requirements of historiography but foremost the Contexts: Brentano, Gestalt Psychology, the Lvov-Warsaw School, and Early Phenomenol-
epistemological and temporal aspects involved. He has presented various papers on these ogy”. In the last few years his research work has focused mainly on the German classical
topics and has published on Paul Ricœur (2004), Theodor Lessing (2006), Nietzsche and philosophy, on the phenomenological tradition and on the philosophy of narrative. He
Hitchcock (2009), Karl Popper (2017) and Mental Time Travel (2018). edited the Italian translation of Schapp’s In Geschichten verstrickt and the collected volumes
The Phenomenological Movement (co-editor 2020) e The Philosophy of Wilhelm Schapp
Katherine Everitt is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. She is completing
(co-editor 2023). He is also in collaboration with different international scholarly journals
her dissertation on the dialectics of space, focusing on the works of Hegel, Badiou, and Žižek.
(Funes, Giornale di Filosofia, La Cultura, Phainomena, Heidegger Studies, The New Yearbook
Michail Evans is a graduate of the universities of Wales, Oxford and Nottingham. His PhD for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy), on which his articles and columns
was awarded by UWE, Bristol. He is International Research Fellow at the New Europe Col- have recently been published on both prominent figures in classical German philosophy
lege/Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest. He has been published in the following (Schelling, Trendelenburg) and central figures in the phenomenological movement (Lipps,
journals: Continental Philosophy Review, Research in Phenomenology, International Journal Schapp, Husserl, Reinach) as well as more contemporary authors who have dealt with the
for Philosophical Studies, British Journal of Phenomenology, Journal of Aesthetics and Phe- problem of narrative such as Fellmann and Marquard
nomenology, Glimpse: Journal of the Society for Media and Phenomenology, Symposium: Ca-
Filip Borek is candidate for a PhD, and student at the University of Warsaw and Charles
nadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Radical Philosophy, Theoria: A Journal of Social and
University in Prague. His main area of research is the broadly understood phenomenolog-
Political Theory, Journal for Cultural Research, New Formations, Victorian Literature and Cul-
ical tradition. In 2022, he published a scientific monograph devoted to Heidegger’s essay
ture, Historical Reflections/Reflections Historiques. He has published general audience publica-
on the essence of truth.
tions and journalism in TPM, Philosophy Now, the LA Review of Books, Tribune, The Ecologist,
The New Internationalist and Red Pepper. Julian Lünser After having studied a BA in Liberal Arts and Humanities I finished a MA of
Philosophy at KU Leuven, and another MA as part of the Erasmus Master Mundus-Program.
Andrej Božič has PhD in literary studies, B.A. in philosophy and comparative literature—is
Since my BA thesis, my academic work is focusing on Husserl’s phenomenology, especially
a research fellow at the Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities (Inštitut Nove revije, zavod
on problems of passivity and genetic phenomenology. Since 2021 I am also the editor in-
za humanistiko). He is a member of the editorial board of the literary and humanistic mag-
chief of the academic journal AUC Interpretations.
azine Apokalipsa as well as the editorial secretary and member of the editorial board of
the journal of phenomenology and hermeneutics Phainomena. He is a member of various Michal Lipták is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences.
international scientific associations, including: Forum for the Humanities (FORUM), Inter- He defended and published his dissertation on aesthetics of Husserl and Ingarden, and his
national Institute for Hermeneutics, and Central and East European Society for Phenome- current research involves Husserlian phenomenology, phenomenology of art (and music
nology (CEESP). The fundamental focal fields of his research activities represent philosophy in particular), structuralism (mainly Mukařovský’s aesthetics) and post-structuralism, polit-
(especially hermeneutics and phenomenology) and poetry, in the problem of their relation ical philosophy including critical phenomenology, Hegelianism, Marxism and post-Marx-
essentially inter-linked by the question of language. ism, philosophy of new media, and philosophy of law. He has written articles on Husserl,
Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, Mukařovský, Heidegger, and so on. He regularly reviews contempo-
Remus Breazu has PhD in Philosophy, University of Bucharest (2020). He is Researcherat
rary classical music for Slovak cultural magazines. In addition to philosophy, he also stud-
University of Bucharest. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucha-
ied law and works as an attorney.
rest in 2020, with a thesis concerning the concept of transcendental in Edmund Husserl’s
and Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the University Michal Zvarík teaches philosophy at Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and
of Bucharest, in the research project “Imagistic Violence. A Phenomenological Approach,” Arts, Trnava University (Slovakia). He is member of editorial board of open-access journal
which is led by Dr. Cristian Ciocan. for humanities Ostium. His main focus includes the themes of ancient Greek philosophy,
phenomenology (J. Patočka, M. Heidegger, H. Arendt), political and social philosophy and
Witold Płotka, Dr. habil., is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Ste-
their thematical intersections. His current research addresses the phenomenon of spectral-
fan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. He was a visiting researcher at the Husserl-Ar-
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ity and philosophical-anthropological aspects of J. Patočka’s late philosophy. His published enology of time. His current research interests include the history of phenomenology in
articles include The Decline of Freedom. Jan Patočka’s Phenomenological Critique of Lib- Latvia, phenomenology of time, and phenomenology of medicine. Currently working on a
eralism (2016), The Crisis of the Idea of University and Its Origins (2018), The Spectrality of research project about the embodied aspects of vaccine hesitancy.
Shame in Plato’s Menexenus (2023).
Alexandru Bejinariu is Project Director in the Postdoctoral Project “The Experience of
Felipe Catalani is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) with Alienness: Between Responsivity and Transposability” (PN-III-P1-1.1- PD-2021-0735); and
a dissertation on Günther Anders. He carried out research internships in Berlin, Paris and Postdoctoral Researcher in the PCE Project “Structures of Bodily Interaction. Phenome-
Santiago de Chile. He is currently working on the archives of Anders in Vienna (Austria) and nological Contributions to Gesture Studies” (Project Director: Dr. Christian Ferencz-Flatz)
has published articles mainly on the following topics: 20th century German philosophy, (PN-III-P4-ID-PCE- 2020-0479) At Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy (Romanian
Frankfurt School critical theory, Brazilian social thought and contemporary social crises. He Society for Phenomenology)
translated into Portuguese books by Günther Anders (We sons of Eichmann) and Theodor
Marie Marie Antonios Sassine is the Executive Director for The Centre on New Questions
Adorno (Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism)
in Ethics, Society and Technology (CETS). Her primary areas of focus are phenomenology,
Jozef Majernik is currently a Junior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak continental philosophy, and philosophy of science. Her research interests also include Is-
Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought lamic and Arabic philosophy, particularly relative to the history of philosophy. She has
at the University of Chicago. His dissertation is an interpretation of Nietzsche’sUntimely given many conferences and published articles, both in English and French, on the creative
Considerations as a single, coherent whole, with particular focus on the understanding of imagination, in Ibn‘Arabi and Philo of Alexandria, on Jan Patočka and Plato, as well as on
the human soul articulated therein. His current project is a study of Jan Patočka’s interpre- Husserl and Jean Ladrière and their critique of technique. Her research examines technol-
tation of Plato and of the ‘Platonism’ of his own thought, which also aims to situate Patočka ogy as a specific relation to truth, its mathematical underpinnings, and their consequent
into the wider milieu of phenomenological returns to Plato, such as those of Jacob Klein, transformation of public and social spaces. It relies on the analyses of Edmund Husserl, Hei-
Leo Strauss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. degger, and Jan Patočka. Her current interests extend that research to Michel Foucault’s
hermeneutic of the self, and to examining the role of Islamic and Arabic philosophy in
Christian Murphy is recent MA graduate of Leiden University, affiliated with the Leiden
today’s world. She is fluent in English and French, with a very good knowledge of classical
Centre for Continental Philosophy (LCCP).
Arabic and Greek, and a working knowledge of a number of modern European languages.
Aengus Daly is a researcher at the Institute for Transcendental Philosophy at the Bergische
Universität Wuppertal, where I also teach philosophy. I am the author of Heidegger’s Met-
aphysics: The Overturning of Being and Time, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.
My research interests are in phenomenology, early modern philosophy (especially Thomas
Hobbes), and Thucydides.
Anna Yampolskaya is independent researcher. She defended PhD (“доктор философских
наук”) on theme: Phenomenological method and its limits: from German to French phenom-
enology on Russian State University for Humanities, in 2013. She is also PhD candidate
in Philosophy (“кандидат философских наук”) on theme Freedom and subjectivity in the
philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Russian State University for Humanities, 2005.D.E.A. and
has diplome (Diplôme des études approfondies) in Discrete Mathematics and Foundations
of Computer Science at Université Aix-Marseille II, in 1995. Her principal research interests
are in phenomenological philosophy, especially in French phenomenology (Lévinas, Mar-
ion, Henry, Richir, Maldiney, Koyré, Derrida), and in neighboring areas (phenomenology
and theology; transformations of subjectivity in philosophy, religion and psychotherapy;
phenomenological aesthetics). She published a monograph on Levinas (2012 Leroy-Beau-
lieu prize for the best book on France in Russian) and a monograph on phenomenological
method (2013). She edited a collection of commentated Russian translations of Levinas,
Marion, Henry, Merleau- Ponty and other contemporary phenomenologists (2014). Her
most recent book, The art of phenomenology (2018), explores relations between phenom-
enological aesthetics and Russian Formalism. In March 2022 se resigned from her job in
Moscow in protest over the war in the Ukraine.
Uldis Vēgners is senior researcher at the University of Latvia, and an assistant professor at
the Rīga Stradiņš University. He is also co-author of a monograph about Latvian philoso-
pher, student of Husserl Theodor Celms, and an author of a monograph about phenom-
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