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10/05/2026

forthcoming June 2026
Gunnar Declerck, Perception et possibilités: De la phénoménologie aux sciences de l’esprit

Cet ouvrage explore les rapports entre perception et possible, tels qu’ils ont été abordés en phénoménologie – de Husserl aux auteurs contemporains – ainsi que dans les sciences de l’esprit et les sciences cognitives. Si la perception est le plus souvent comprise comme ouverture à la réalité présente – les choses telles qu’elles sont ici et maintenant –, de nombreux philosophes et psychologues ont également souligné qu’elle implique un rapport constitutif au possible. Introduire le possible dans la perception ne revient pas à renoncer à l’actualité du monde perçu. Dans l’expérience perceptive, l’actuel ne s’oppose pas au possible, il s’y articule. Loin d’être un simple donné figé, le monde se déploie ainsi dans un horizon de possibilités qui en conditionne le sens. C’est cette dimension du possible qui confère au monde perçu son relief et son épaisseur. Privé de cette ouverture, l’univers phénoménal se réduirait à une image immobile, semblable à une photographie figée pour l’éternité.

ISBN: 978-606-697-197-3 (paperback)

ISBN: 978-606-697-198-0 (eBook)

Cet ouvrage explore les rapports entre perception et possible, tels qu’ils ont été abordés en phénoménologie – de Husserl aux auteurs contemporains – ainsi

10/05/2026

Forthcoming June 2026
Rolf Kühn, Transzendentalität und passiver Erfahrungsursprung Alles Erscheinen beginnt in einem ursprünglichen Schweigen, und kehrt in dieses zurück. Dieses Buch stellt die Grundfrage der Phänomenologie neu: Wie ist ein solcher Ursprung überhaupt erfahrbar? Im Anschluss an Edmund Husserl zeigt es, dass das Aufbrechen des Erscheinens untrennbar mit einer konstitutiven Distanz verbunden ist, in der sich sein eigener Anfang zugleich entzieht. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida und Emmanuel Levinas verfolgt die Studie diese Spannung bis in die Gegenwart der phänomenologischen Debatte. Im Rückgriff auf Georges Bataille und Michel Henry entwickelt sie eine neue Bestimmung des Lebens als Exzess – als irreduziblen, affektiven Überschuss vor aller Konstitution. So entsteht eine radikale Konzeption ursprünglicher Passibilität, in der sich Erfahrung aus einem „Mehr des Lebens“ entfaltet, das die Möglichkeit des Erscheinens zugleich begründet und übersteigt.

https://zetabooks.com/4127/rolf-kuhn-transzendentalitat-und-passiver-erfahrungsursprung/

Alles Erscheinen beginnt in einem ursprünglichen Schweigen, und kehrt in dieses zurück. Dieses Buch stellt die Grundfrage der Phänomenologie neu: Wie ist ein

07/05/2026

Lajos Horváth, "The Phenomenology of Traumatic Destinal Events: The Retroactive Constitution of Sense and the Afterwardsness of Trauma", in: Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume 26 / 2026: Phenomenology and Psychopathology
Abstract: The aim of the paper is to synthetize Laszlo Tengelyi’s phenomenological idea of destinal event with the psychoanalytic notion of Nachträglichkeit. For this purpose, the paper aims to introduce the concept of the traumatic destinal event. It argues that this idea further develops and complements Husserl’s and Tengelyi’s investigations regarding the retroactive constitution of sense. In contrast to Tengelyi’s literary illustrations of the retroactive constitution of sense, the idea of the traumatic destinal event draws heavily on Freud’s and others’ insights into the afterwardsness of trauma (i.e., Nachträglichkeit). By employing Husserl’s original ideas, the first section of the paper illustrates what the retroactive constitution of sense means in the living present. The second section introduces Tengelyi’s idea of the discarded formation of sense and demonstrates how the retroactive formation of sense occurs during the recollection of distant and seemingly insignificant memory traces. The third section discusses the psychoanalytic idea of Nachträglichkeit and phenomenologically reformulates it as the constitution of a traumatic destinal event. Finally, the paper argues that the traumatic destinal event can be introduced to phenomenology as a subtype of Tengelyi’s destinal events.

07/05/2026

Rudolf Bernet, "Le mot d’esprit (Witz) chez Freud", in: Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume 26 / 2026: Phenomenology and Psychopathology
Abstract: The abundant distinctions between different kinds of jokes in Freud’s book on Jokes have discouraged many readers. There is a need to find a unity in this multiplicity – a little like Husserl does in his process of eidetic variation. Does the common essence and benefit of all jokes consist, as is often said, in their avoiding a neurotic repression of unconscious desires? Paying special attention to the linguistic expression of jokes and to the process of their social sharing, the author highlights, instead, what they owe to the pleasure of playing. Although Freud relates this pleasure to a special kind of drive (Spieltrieb) and not to aesthetic imagination, jokes allow us to escape from the constraints of reality, reason, and morals. Playing with words in jokes is like returning to the plays and pleasures of one’s childhood. Emphasizing the playful character of jokes makes one also understand better how they hold the middle between the painful effort to adapt to reality, and the attempt to escape from all reality through the hallucinatory satisfaction of unconscious desires in dreaming.

GYEMANT, Maria and DASTUR, Françoise (Ed.)

27/04/2026

Christopher Gutland, Applying Husserl’s Phenomenology to the Chinese Script: Debunking the Phonocentric Myth. In: Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume 26 / 2026
Abstract: Drawing on Edmund Husserl’s 1913/1914 revisions, this article applies his modality‑neutral account of signification to the Chinese script to challenge phonocentrism. After outlining relevant features of Chinese, it introduces phonocentrism via William Boltz, who holds that written graphs convey linguistic meaning only through associated word sounds. Husserl’s revision, by contrast, holds that a sign is linguistic insofar as it functions within grammatical structures that motivate categorial acts, not insofar as it is acoustic. Accordingly, it is shown phenomenologically how the non‑alphabetic Chinese script can meet this condition even in the absence of phonetic mediation. The paper thus undercuts phonocentrism by showing, via Chinese, that written signs can be linguistic without phonetic mediation and that writing is a primary linguistic modality.

GYEMANT, Maria and DASTUR, Françoise (Ed.)

26/04/2026

Maria Gyemant and Françoise Dastur, Editors’ Introduction: Phenomenology and Psychopathology [OPEN ACCESS]
DOI: 10.5840/studphaen2026261

GYEMANT, Maria and DASTUR, Françoise (Ed.)

13/03/2026

Forthcoming: STUDIA PHÆNOMENOLOGICA vol. XXVI / 2026
Phenomenology and Psychopathology
Editors: Maria Gyemant and Françoise Dastur

27/02/2026

L’écologie du cerveau. Phénoménologie et biologie de la cognition incarnée
par Thomas Fuchs
Traduction française par Élodie Boublil

Le cerveau pense-t-il ? Est-il le créateur du monde vécu, l’architecte du sujet ? À l’encontre du neurocentrisme dominant, Thomas Fuchs propose une approche incarnée et écologique de la cognition. Le cerveau n’est pas le fondement isolé de la vie psychique, mais un organe de médiation entre l’organisme et son environnement, entre le corps vivant et le monde partagé.Dans cette perspective, l’esprit n’est pas un produit du cerveau : il est une activité du vivant lui-même. Le problème classique du rapport esprit–cerveau se reformule ainsi comme un double aspect du vivant : corps vécu et corps objectif. Ce n’est pas le cerveau en soi, mais l’être humain vivant qui sent, pense et agit.Thomas Fuchs est psychiatre et philosophe, titulaire de la chaire « Karl Jaspers pour les fondements philosophiques de la psychiatrie » à Heidelberg. Son œuvre, traduite dans plusieurs langues, est devenue une référence majeure dans les débats contemporains sur la cognition incarnée, la phénoménologie et la psychiatrie. ISBN 978-606-697-193-5 (paperback)
ISBN 978-606-697-194-2 (eBook)
Disponible dès maintenant sur www.zetabooks.com

https://zetabooks.com/all-titles/lecologie-du-cerveau-phenomenologie-et-biologie-de-la-cognition-incarnee/

FUCHS, Thomas

20/02/2026

Extended Deadline: Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume 27 (2027): “Phenomenological Approaches to Affectivity”. Guest Editors: Claudia Serban & Anthony Steinbock

Whether in the context of clarifying the theory of intentionality, uncovering the background of our facticity, describing the pre-linguistic layer of our being-in-the-world, or understanding the orientation of our intersubjective field as polarized by values, affectivity emerges as a central concern from the earliest stages of the various orientations within phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy. This crucial and inescapable status of affectivity immediately gives rise to far-reaching questions: Can we undertake a phenomenological description of modes of objectivity or of the ontological layers of the lifeworld and the social world without confronting the problem of affectivity—without accounting for the situated, embodied, and affective nature of all experience and every encounter with worldly objects and with others?

Likewise: Can intentionality be understood without attending to its affective character and orientation, or to the modalities of emotional life? In that case, the very structure of phenomenological correlation would demand to be rethought so as to include the affective and emotional dimensions of every intentional relation. How, then, are we to think the articulation between affectivity and the givenness of meaning? More broadly: Can the theory of intentionality be made to coincide with a phenomenology of affectivity—and if not, how do they intersect?

Moreover, given the fundamentally affective and variable tonality of our openness to the world and to alterity, and of our encounters with beings and with others, further questions arise: How can we unify, under the single concept of affectivity, the diversity of affects and emotions? What is the precise link between affectivity, its multiple manifestations, and their corresponding matters? How can we approach affects and emotions starting from their embodiment? Are we not compelled to rethink corporeality in light of its status as the seat of emotional life? What is the impact of affectivity and its fundamental variants on the dynamics of human life—from the overarching orientations of personal existence to the social and political movements that shape collective history on various scales?

This issue invites contributions that explore the role of affectivity in all these structural dimensions of classical or contemporary phenomenological reflection. We also welcome submissions that examine intersections between the phenomenology of affectivity and adjacent fields such as psychology, psychopathology, psychoanalysis, or the neurosciences, as well as history, anthropology, and sociology.

We particularly encourage contributions that offer fresh assessments of classical phenomenological approaches to affectivity (Husserl, Scheler, Kolnai, Heidegger, Bollnow, Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Patočka, Fink, Dufrenne, Henry, Maldiney, Richir, Waldenfels, etc.), alongside newer developments in the field of the phenomenology of affectivity and emotions. These may include: analyses of embodied affectivity and its impact on theories of consciousness or mind (Thompson, Steinbock, Depraz, Fuchs); the role of affectivity in the phenomenological concept of atmosphere (Schmitz, Bégout); contributions to the development of eco-phenomenology (Toadvine); renewed descriptive accounts of emotional life (Heinämaa, Zahavi, Steinbock), such as in the form of a cardio-phenomenology (Depraz); critical emotion theory attentive to the social, political, cultural, and economic constraints that shape affective life (Ahmed, Oksala); and approaches that treat affectivity as a fundamental dimension of openness to the world, thematized under the concept of desire (Barbaras).

We also welcome essays situated at the intersection of phenomenology, psychopathology, and psychoanalysis; contributions addressing the role of affectivity in shaping a theory of action; and studies investigating the relation between the phenomenology of affectivity and the fundamental movements, manifestations, and forms of social and political life.

Extended Deadline: March 15, 2026.

Submission Guidelines: https://zetabooks.com/library/journals/studia-phaenomenologica/

Contact: Papers should be sent to [email protected] (subject line: Studia Phaenomenologica 2027)

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03/02/2026

FORTHCOMING
Thomas Fuchs, L’écologie du cerveau: Phénoménologie et biologie de la cognition incarnée (trad. Elodie Boublil), Zeta Books, 2026.
ISBN 978-606-697-193-5 (paperback)
ISBN 978-606-697-194-2 (eBook)

14/01/2026

just published https://zetabooks.com/all-titles/phenomene-et-image/