Études phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies │ Appel à contributions n°13

• La phénoménologie et les défis de la Philosophy of Mind (1, 2017)
• La vie comme phénomène. Variations phénoménologiques (2, 2018)
• La phénoménologie à l’épreuve du politique (3, 2019)
• Retour sur la perception 75 ans après la percée opérée par Merleau-Ponty (4, 2020)
• Rencontres interculturelles (5, 2021)
• Manières d’habiter, modes d’hospitalité (6, 2022)
• Les multiples visages de l’altérité. Autour de l’œuvre d’Emmanuel Levinas (7, 2023)
• Démocraties en crise (8, 2024)
• Existence, engagement, littérature : l’héritage de Sartre (9, 2025)
• L’imagination, de l’esthétique à l’ontologie (10, 2026)
• Nouvelles perspectives en herméneutique (11, 2027, sous presse)
• Sein und Zeit un siècle plus tard (12, 2028, en préparation)

Call for Submissions

                                                         “Nature and Forms of Affectivity”

The journal Études Phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies is seeking submissions in English and French for its 13^th issue.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Historical or comparative studies, such as 

• The genesis of the philosophical problem of affectivity in German phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler, Patočka)
• The central role of affectivity in French phenomenology (Sartre, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Henry, Maldiney)
• The place of emotions in the phenomenological movement
• The role of empathy in the constitution of the subject (Husserl, Levinas, and others)
• “Moods” (Stimmungen) as connecting an embodied consciousness to a common world (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Binswanger? Maldiney)

Treatment of specific problems, such as

• The affective potential of art
• The import of affectivity in intersubjective relations (such as anxiety, guilt, resentment, grief, shame, among others) 
• Affectivity, narrativity, and selfhood
• The fragility of affective intentionality and the risk of manipulation (in political discourse, social media, artificial intelligence) 
• Affectivity and the phenomenological “feel” of experience in cognitive science
• The motivating power of affectivity in environmental studies

The deadline for submission is October 1, 2027

The journal also accepts free submissions, not related to the topic of the issue, for its Varia section.

Études Phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in French and English both in print and online. The journal follows the same spirit of openness to various perspectives that was to be found in Études Phénoménologiques, which was founded in 1985 by Jacques Taminiaux, who remained its editor until 2008. The publication of the journal is the result of a collaboration between the Centre d’études phénoménologiques at the Université catholique de Louvain and the Department of Philosophy at Marquette University. It is published by Peeters and edited by Pol Vandevelde and Danielle Lories.

The journal is dedicated to the general task of showing the relevance and fruitfulness of phenomenology for contemporary issues in philosophy, and of being a forum for discussion of such issues. One of its goals is to bridge the gap between history and philosophy, between continental and analytic philosophy, and between theory and application.

The journal welcomes (1) historical studies of particular authors within the phenomenological tradition or historical accounts of particular issues as well as (2) systematic analyses of a topic or a problem on which phenomenology can make a contribution.

Past issues:

• Phenomenology and the Challenges of the Philosophy of Mind (1)

  • Life as a Phenomenon: Phenomenological Variations (2)

  • La phénoménologie à l’épreuve du politique (3)

  • Perception Reconsidered: 75 Years after Merleau-Ponty’s Breakthrough (4)

  • Intercultural Encounters (5)

  • Modes of Dwelling, Kinds of Hospitalities (6)

  • The Many Faces of Alterity: Around the Work of Emmanuel Levinas (7)

  • Democracies in Crisis (8)

  • Existence, Engagement, Literature: Sartre’s Legacy (9)

  • Imagination: From Aesthetics to Ontology (10)

  • New Perspectives in Hermeneutics (11, in press)

  • Being and Time a Century Later (12, in preparation) 

Submissions should be original, not submitted elsewhere, and prepared for blind review.

Manuscripts should not exceed 9,000 words (60,000 characters), including notes and references.

A brief abstract (150-200 words) and 5 keywords in English should be placed at the beginning of the paper.

Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) in 12-point Times New Roman font (no PDF formats) with all margins of 1 inch (or 2,5 cm), using the “Author, Date, Page number” system with a list of references at the end of the paper.

Manuscripts should be submitted only in electronic version as an email attachment to one of the following addresses:

Textes en français à envoyer à etudes-pheno@uclouvain.be

Texts in English to be sent to pol.vandevelde@marquette.edu

The cover page of the manuscript should include the author’s full name, affiliation, postal address, telephone number, and email address.

For more details see the website of the journal:

En français: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/cep/etudes-phenomenologiques-phenomenological-studies.html

In English: www.phenomenologicalstudies.org

Études phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies is indexed in The Philosopher’s Index (https://philindex.org/), International Philosophical Bibliography (https://ipb.uclouvain.be/consult/login, or : https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/isp/ipb.html), ERIH+ - European Reference Index For the Humanities and Social Sciences (https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/).

Online issues of the journal are available at: https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url= journal&journal_code=EPH.