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Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts
By supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological...
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Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing
This essay accomplishes two goals. First, contra accepted interpretations, I reveal that the early Husserl executed valuable and extensive...
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Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience
This article is a theo-phenomenological study on discernment in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, particularly as it is described in the Philokalia and...
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“The Union of the Soul and the Body”: Merleau-Ponty on Being in the World
Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the body is often depicted as emphasizing the distinction between the physical and the conscious dimension of the body....
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The Question of Adequacy, from Hermeneutics to Writing Strategies
The postulate of adequacy had been extensively questioned and deepened in the area of hermeneutics and interpretive social sciences. Some of the...
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Influence Match: Can Corporate Lobbying Equalise Political Influence?
Some corporations use their disproportionate lobbying power to obstruct policy. This obstructive lobbying violates most people’s claims to equal...
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Max Weber’s Verstehende Soziologie and Florian Znaniecki’s Cultural Sociology: A Discussion of Two Distinct but Related Notions
This article compares Weber’s notion of Verstehende Soziologie with Znaniecki’s concepts of humanistic coefficient and cultural sociology. While both...
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Loving Somebody: Accounting for Human-Animal Love
In the philosophy of love, the possibility of loving a non-human animal is rarely acknowledged and often explicitly denied. And yet, loving a...
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Husserlian Phenomenology of Limit-Problems: a “‘Geometry’ of Lived Experience”?
The proper way in which limit-problems [ Grenzprobleme ]—birth, death, dreamless sleep, the “prior to birth” [ das vor der Geburt ], the “after death” [ da...
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Discriminatory Types and Homogenising Relevances: A Schutzian Perspective on Oppression
In this paper, we draw on Alfred Schutz’s theoretical framework to better understand how oppression is enacted through discriminatory acts. By...
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Review Essay on Matt King, Simply Responsible
This review essay discusses Matt King’s recent book Simply Responsible , in which he defends a unifying account of responsibility that spans not only...
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Toward a Pluralist Approach to Vulnerability: A Contribution to an Interdisciplinary Trialogue on Vulnerability
This paper is part of a special section devoted to an interdisciplinary exploration of vulnerability, assessing the theoretical elaborations of the...
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Anxiety, Hope and Meaning in Times of Ecological Crisis: An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective on Environmental Emotions
Environmental anxiety is often thought of as a psychopathological condition. Our paper aims to challenge this narrow understanding by offering an...
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Categorial Representation Anew: What are the Categorial Representative Contents that Make Knowledge Possible?
In the present article, I address the issue of categorial representative contents, which, according to Husserl’s phenomenological theory, make...
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The Ethical Attitude: A Husserlian Account of Striving to Be a Good Person
The phenomenological notion of attitude has gained new traction in recent years, as it proliferates beyond its initial distinction between natural...
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Is Shame a Global Emotion?
The notion that shame is a global emotion, one which takes the whole self as its focus, has long enjoyed a near consensus in both the psychological...