Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe.
Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems.

Editors: Witold Płotka, Patrick Eldridge

This book presents the origins of Central and Eastern European phenomenology. It features chapters that explore the movement's development, its most important thinkers, and its theoretical and historical context. This collection examines such topics as the realism-idealism controversy, the status of descriptive psychology, the question of the phenomenological method, and the problem of the world.
The chapters span the first decades of the development of phenomenology in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Yugoslavia before World War II. The contributors track the Brentanian heritage of the development. They show how this tradition inspired influential thinkers like Celms, Špet, Ingarden, Frank, Twardowski, Patočka, and others. The book also puts forward original investigations. Moreover it elaborates new accounts of the foundations of phenomenology. While the volume begins with the Brentanian heritage, it situates phenomenology in a dialogue with other important schools of thought of that time, including the Prague School and Lvov-Warsaw School of Logic.
This collection highlights thinkers whose writings have had only a limited reception outside their home countries due to political and historical circumstances. It will help readers gain a better understanding of how the phenomenological movement developed beyond its start in Germany. Readers will also come to see how the phenomenological method resonated in different countries and led to new philosophical developments in ontology, epistemology, psychology, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of religion.

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“Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology”—Vol. 10, No. 2, 2021
Special Issue
“Women Phenomenologists: Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Gerda Walther”

Guest Editors: Ronny Miron & Simona Bertolini

Edith Stein (1891-1942), Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966), and Gerda Walther (1897-1977) share at least three common traits. Firstly, they were Edmund Husserl’s students and came under the influence of the realist phenomenology of the so-called “Munich and Göttingen circles”. Stein and Conrad-Martius studied with Husserl and Adolf Reinach in Göttingen; Walther, instead, took courses with Husserl in Freiburg and studied with Alexander Pfänder, one of the main proponents of the phenomenological tradition in Munich. Secondly, they had to abandon the project of beginning an academic career, as, for a woman, this was not an easy goal to fulfill at that time. Thirdly, they developed phenomenology in a personal way, regarding both the conception of phenomenological method and the field of objects this method addresses. Stein devoted herself to the theoretical project of connecting Husserl’s rigorous description and Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysics, with particular regard to the structure of the human person; Conrad-Martius established a relationship between ontology of real being and science, by elaborating an original philosophy of nature; Walther dedicated herself to diverse subjects, such as ontology of social communities, phenomenology of mysticism, mental illness, and parapsychology. These philosophies have received increasing attention in the last years, in particular in connection with the role of metaphysics in phenomenological inquiry, the profundity of human soul, the natural origin of man, and the religious experience.
The aim of our issue is to shed new light on the reception of Husserl’s philosophy in the thinking of these phenomenologists and on their peculiar contribution to broaden the field of phenomenological research.

We welcome submissions combining historical and systematic accentuation. Contributions can focus on one of the three indicated phenomenologists or suggest a comparative perspective in this regard. Authors are invited to consider one of the following topics:

• Women phenomenologists and the question of phenomenological method;
• Edith Stein’s phenomenological analyses, metaphysics, and philosophical anthropology;
• Conrad-Martius’ ontology, philosophy of science, and conception of man;
• Gerda Walther’s contribution to and development from phenomenology;
• Theoretical affinities and differences between women phenomenologists’ perspectives;
• The relation between women phenomenologists and other proponents of phenomenological tradition.

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“Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology”—Vol. 10, No. 1, 2021
Special Issue
“To Let Things Be! Interdisciplinary Phenomenology – Challenges for Innovative Research”

Guest Editors: Ineta Kivle & Raivis Bicevskis

Exploring Husserl`s and Heidegger`s philosophies, cognitions of Sartre, Merleu-Ponty, Levinas and their followers in the context of the 21^st century and raising the questions of today’s relevance of phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophies in interdisciplinary approach, we are seeking new contributions and welcome submissions on topics connected to their philosophies, including—but not limited to—such topics as:

• Husserl`s “Back to things themselves” and Heidegger`s “Let be!” – perspectives of interdisciplinary phenomenology
• The role of empathy, listening and understanding in the development of science and research
• The role of phenomenology in the understanding of art: painting, performance, composition, literary work
• The role of intersubjectivity in the development of interdisciplinarity and the constitution of a common meaningful world
• Authentic and inauthentic existence – freedom of choice or determined existence
• Things as they are and the meaningful phenomena in the context of interdisciplinary phenomenology
• Other topics that show the interdisciplinary aspects of insights gained from hermeneutical phenomenology

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Модераторы: Наталья Артеменко, Андрей Паткуль