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Cristian Ciocan
Doctor of Philosophy
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Dr. Cristian Ciocan (Habilitation University of Bucharest 2015, PhD University of Paris IV – Sorbonne 2009, PhD University of Bucharest 2006) is currently member of Doctoral School in Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, and researcher at the Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB). He is president of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology (founded in 2000), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica.
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December 2009 - present
Romanian Society for Phenomenology
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In this article, I discuss two approaches to the phenomenon of gesture, constituted by the existential dimension of embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and language: while Martin Heidegger states that human bodily movement as a whole should be understood as gesture in contrast to the spatial movement of things, Vilém Flusser integrates unde...
Our most current experience of violence is not predominantly violence “given in the flesh,” but violence given through the mediation of the image. The phenomenon of real violence is therefore modified through the imagistic experience, involving first of all its emotional, embodied and intersubjective dimensions. How is the emotion constituted in th...
Violence is a pervasive dimension of our individual and social existence. No one can deny such an evidence, precisely during these troubled times of social unrest. The unanimous feeling that we are living in an increasingly violent world, full of rage and anger, is more and more tormenting. Not only our past is full of violence as well as our prese...
The aim of this article is to explore the emotional dimensions involved in the phenomenon of interpersonal violence, identifying various modalizations of affectivity occurring in the architectonics of this phenomenon. I will first concentrate on symmetrical violence, namely, on the emergence of irritation, annoyance, anger, and fury leading to fier...
The aim of this article is to examine the problematic frontier that separates the phenomenology of the body and the phenomenology of animality. The main difficulty is to differentiate phenomenologically not only between embodiment and animality, but also between specifically human embodied experience and what is accessible to us through empathy in...
The aim of this article is to address the question of the anthropological difference by focusing on the intersubjective relation between the human and the animal in the context of a phenomenological analysis of violence. Following some Levinasian and Derridian insights, my goal is to analyze the structural differences between interspecific and intr...
In this article, I will discuss the Husserlian phenomenology of animality, by focusing on several texts of the 1920s in which the animal is determined as an abnormal variation of the human being. My aim is to address the question of the abnormality of the animal by reintegrating it in its original context, which is Husserl’s theory of normality. I...
In this article, I focus on the problem of body as it is developed in Heidegger’s Zollikon Seminars, in contrast with its enigmatic concealment in Being and Time. In the first part, I emphasize the implicit connection of Heidegger’s approach of body with Husserl’s problematic of Leib and Körper, and with his phenomenological analyses of tactility....
Following the analysis of the problem of the body in the early writings of Levinas that we exposed in a previous issue of the Journal, we focus in this article on the middle period of production of Levinas, particularly in Totality and Infinity. Corporeality is always characterized here by a kind of ambivalence, the embodied dimension of the subjec...
In this article, we will analyse the emergence and evolution of the problem of corporeality in the early writings of Emmanuel Levinas, especially from 1935 to 1947. In these texts, the ego is constituted through a cohering with the self and to its own body. Alterity breaks this carnal adhesion to the self. But this break has also a dimension essent...
In this article, we aim to trace the ontological genesis of language, as it is set out by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time. The phenomenon of language is described in its rooting in the understanding (Verstehen), as an existential structure that precedes and grounds it. We start with a clarification of this existentiale, emphasizing that understa...
Dans cet article, je me propose d'offrir quelques reperes pour une analyse integrale de l'evolution du probleme de la mort dans la pensee heideggerienne developpee apres Sein und Zeit. La question qui dirige l'enquete est de savoir si et comment la phenomenologie de la mort - apres avoir eu un role si decisif dans le contexte de l'analytique du Das...
This study intends to provide some benchmarks for a full analysis of the evolution of the problem of death in Heidegger's thought developed after Sein und Zeit. The question that guides our investigation is how the phenomenology of death is still the center of Heidegger's philosophical interest, after the analytic of Dasein. Our discussion focuses...
In this paper, I will discuss the Heideggerian interpretation of death in relation with two fundamental structures of the existential analysis: understanding (Verstehen) and state-of-mind (Befindlichkeit). In the first part, I will highlight how the understanding opens the phenomenon of death as a possibility: this possibility will prove to be a sp...
Heidegger, death and totality
Sein und Zeit’s paragraph 45 relates totality and death. In fact, with Heidegger there are three concepts of totality : 1 / an existential-ontological totality which is a priori of the being-in-the world and care ; 2 / an a posteriori totality of intra-mundane things made of parts ; and 3 / a time existential totality...
At the beginning of his philosophical career (between 1918 and 1921), the young Heidegger analyzed various texts belonging to the field of the religious tradition: the Pauline Epistles, Augustinian writings and texts of the medieval mystics. Through these analyses, Heidegger formalized certain phenomena that we can find, a few years later, in Being...
In this article, the author unveils the play between visibility and invisibility as it is captured in a phenomenology of the gift. The first part of the essay explores the tension between the fact of being given and the forgetting of its characters as a gift: its donor and the circumstances of it being given. In the process of becoming autonomous,...
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Given both the limitations of current research and the incessant challenges raised by the question of the alien, our project intends to attain three main objectives: (a) to retrace and ground the vast polysemy of the term “alien” in the unitary essential structure of our experience of alienness. Our hypothesis is that the analogy present between the two levels of intersubjective and intercultural constitution allows for a better understanding of the way in which the sense of foreignness is rooted in our experience of the alien. (b) The second objective is to reevaluate the specific type of criticism that Waldenfels develops against the Husserlian account of alienness and to identify the main difficulties that still hold and must be addressed by a phenomenological account of the alien. Also, we critically approach Waldenfels’ own account of alienness based on responsivity. (c) The third objective is to develop a methodological tool able to account for the experience of the alien without mutilating or destroying the phenomenon and succumbing to the objection regarding mirroring apperception. Turning to Heidegger’s early Freiburg lecture courses (1919–1923), we aim to investigate the experiences of alienness present in Heidegger’s work and extend his formal indicative method to explicitly address the problem of the alien as contoured in our work concerning (a) and (b).
