This project aims to a new elaboration of the question of emotions and of their bodily basis—the heart—by mobilizing conceptual resources of phenomenological philosophy, phenomenological psychopathology and phenomenological and first-person experiential theology. Joining these three correlative ways of describing the bodily-rooted emotions, our project argues—against the traditional cognitivist view advocating that brain alone materially rules the body and promoting a formal-functionalist approach of cognition—that the heart, understood as a bodily-emotional complex, provides us with a basic and encompassing experience of ourselves as embodied self-present subjects. Thus, the project is based on cardio-phenomenology, a new phenomenological approach to emotions considered in their dynamic relation to the body. By phenomenologically exploring the psychophysiology of the heart, we will offer a contribution to the undoing of the vestiges of the dichotomy between mind and brain. Three topics will articulate our research: the bodily dimension of emotions, the essential role played by emotions in cognition, and the moral e.g. wisdom and spiritual dimension of emotions involved in the intersubjective relations. Following an applied cardio-phenomenological approach, we will explore, on the one hand, liminal experiences of dysfunctional emotions in the field of phenomenological psychopathology and, on the other hand, the prayer of the heart in the realm of experiential theology. Inspired by phenomenological psychiatry and psychoanalysis, we will approach psychopathology with a double objective: to acquire a better understanding of the dynamics of emotions, and to identify the possible therapeutic effects of the cardio-phenomenological method. Applied to the field of experiential theology, we will develop a thorough micro-phenomenological inquiry of the first-person bodily emotional movements of the experiential subject during the prayer of the heart.

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Principal investigator:

Natalie Depraz (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-7308) is a full professor at University of Paris Nanterre and member of Husserl Archive in Paris. She authored numerous books and articles, on a large variety of phenomenological problems, the most important being related to embodiment and intersubjectivity, attention and emotions. Her works include: Transcendance et incarnation (Vrin, 1995), Lucidité du corps (Kluwer, 2001), On Becoming Aware: An Experiential Pragmatics (Benjamins Press, 2003, with Francisco Varela and Pierre Vermersch), Le corps glorieux. Phénoménologie pratique de la Philocalie des Pères du désert et des Pères de l’Église (Peeters, 2008), Attention et vigilance (PUF, 2014), Le sujet de la surprise (Zeta Books, 2018). She coordinated the Emphiline EMCO-ANR Research Program (2012–2015) “Surprise at the core of Emotions: An Extended Vector of Cognition” (Husserl-Archives/ENS/CNRS) and the Adochronicq Normandy GRR ERIAC Research Program (2014–2019): “Teenagers facing chronic diseases (diabetes, anorexia, schizophrenia). Medecine and Philosophy”.

Researchers:

Cristian Ciocan (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-6409) is member of the Doctoral School in Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, and scientific researcher (CS I) at the Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB). He defended his Habilitation at the University of Bucharest in 2015, having a PhD at the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne (2009) and a PhD at the University of Bucharest (2006). He is President of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP), Vice-President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University “Albert-Ludwig” in Freiburg im Breisgau (2007–2008), of the New Europe College (2009–2010), and Principal Investigator in the following research projects: “The Body In-Between. An Interdisciplinary Approach to an Integral Theory of Corporeal Phenomena”, “Phenomenological Approaches to the Anthropological Difference”, “The Structures of Conflict: A Phenomenological Approach to Violence” and “Imagistic violence. A phenomenological approach”.

Cătălina Condruz (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1285-6194) is researcher at the Institute for Philosophy “Alexandru Dragomir” Bucharest. In her PhD dissertation defended in 2021 at the University of Bucharest, she reconstructed the philosophical framework of intersubjectivity within Marion’s phenomenology of givenness, taking as point of departure the notion of counter-intentionality. During her second year of PhD, she was involved in Erasmus programme and spent a semester at University of Rouen (France), working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Natalie Depraz, having the opportunity to do a short clinical training offered by Psychiatric Hospital of Rouvray, which provided her with a fundamental basis for her scientific research needs and aims. She worked as Research Assistant within the research projects “The Structures of Conflict: A Phenomenological Approach to Violence” (2017–2019) and “‘I was there.’ Laying the Foundations for a Comprehensive Phenomenology of Testimony” (2020–2022).

Daniela Dumbravă (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3115-0442) is PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University “1 December 1918” Alba Iulia (started in 2019), holding a PhD in Early Modern History (University of Florence, 2008). Actually, she is Member of the Institute for the History of Religions (Romanian Academy) and Temporary Research Assistant at the European University of Rome, Primary Education Sciences, Italy. She develops interests in religious anthropology and history of religions, most recently encompassing phenomenology. In recent years, she has developed research missions in Beirut, focusing on the topic of Religions & Resilience. Together with Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban, she has published the volumes In-cognita: Ioan Petru Culianu’s Approaches to Religion (Zeta Books, Bucharest, 2022) and André Scrima. Expérience spirituelle et langage théologique. Actes du colloque de Roma, 29-30 octobre 2008 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 306, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, 2019).

Dragoș Duicu (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6611-2238) is Associate Professor at the Institut catholique de Toulouse and member of the editorial board of the journal Recherches philosophiques. He defended his PhD at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2013 and was post-doctoral fellow at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is a research fellow of the CERES research laboratory (unité de recherche) – Culture, éthique, religion et société. 

Christian Ferencz-Flatz (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-2839) is researcher at the “Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy and at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Bucharest. He currently teaches at the National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale” and is the Book-Review Editor of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He defended his Habilitation at Babeș-Bolyai University in 2020, and his PhD dissertation at the University of Bucharest in 2008. He was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Cologne (2016–2017), at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Bucharest 2015) and of the New Europe College (2008–2009). He was Principal Investigator in the following research projects: “Habitus, Memory, Sediment: Facets of a Phenomenological Approach to Tradition”, “Continental Philosophy as a Rigorous Science. Elements of Empirical Research in Early Phenomenology and Critical Theory”, and “Structures of Bodily Interaction. Phenomenological Contributions to Gesture Studies”.

Maria Gyemant (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8569-2496) is currently teaching philosophy in Angers in Classes Préparatoires while pursuing her research as an associated member of the Husserl Archives in Paris, and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Alter. After her PhD at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonneon intentionality and the unconscious in Husserl and Freud (2012), she continued her work on the relation between consciousness and the unconscious refocusing the aim on the dynamics of emotion as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liège between 2011–2013 and at the Husserl Archives in Paris, where she worked under the direction of Natalie Depraz on the ANR Emphiline project between 2014–2015.

Chris Octavian Ionita (https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5635-167X) is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Bucharest. His main academic interest is the philosophical question of negativity and its relationship to the notion of phenomenality. Attention to the ontological question of non-being is a constant concern of his research: already during his bachelor studies in Turin, when he examined the negative theology of John Scotus Eriugena; then during his master studies in Bucharest, when he investigated the connection between Heidegger’s thought and the problem of nihilism; finally, during his research internships in Rome and Tübingen, when he deepened the meontological implications of Heidegger’s philosophy in relation to Aristotle and the pre-Socratics. He is currently working on the first Romanian translation of the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino thanks to a scholarship from the Romanian Centre for Humanistic Research in Venice.

Ovidiu Stanciu (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-716X) is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, and Research Associate at the Husserl Archives in Paris. He is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He holds an MA in Contemporary Philosophy (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2008) and a PhD in Philosophy (Université de Bourgogne / Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2015), with a thesis on “the problem of metaphysics in Heidegger and Patočka”. He was previously University Lecturer in Philosophy at the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, and at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Claudia Șerban (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6588-5781) is Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse “Jean Jaurès”, member of the Archives Husserl de Paris (CNRS), of the Institut für Transzendentalphilosophie und Phänomenologie (University of Wuppertal, Germany), and of the Fonds Michel Henry (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), being also one of the members of the editorial board of the journals Philosophie and Alter. She defended her PhD thesis at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne in 2013 and was fellow of Fondation Thiers (2012–2015). She was member in the ANR Emphiline project “Surprise within the spontaneity of emotions, a vector of expanded cognition” (2012–2015), coordinated by Natalie Depraz.

Nicolae Turcan (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-3676) is Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Faculty of Orthodox Theology. His areas of interest include the dialog between theology and phenomenology, the continental philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, Christian apologetics, Eastern Orthodox dogmatics, metaphysics, phenomenology and postmodernism. He has a PhD in Theology (2015, “1 December 1918” University, Alba-Iulia, Romania) and a PhD in Philosophy (2006, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He is the editor of Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy and member of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology.

Vasile Visotchi (https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0858-8713) is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, working on Heidegger and the notion of voice. During his MA studies (2020-2022) at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, he worked on Meister Eckhart and the phenomenology of conversion. With an interest in the history of phenomenology, he translated into Romanian the essay of Gustav Shpet, The Consciousness and its Owner. Currently, he is a member of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology and the Editorial Assistant of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica.

Natalie DEPRAZ, “What is an antinomic emotion?”, Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience (21–23 September 2023, University of Bucharest)

Cătălina CONDRUZ, “Reconstructing the Other. On the limits of intersubjectivity in the case of mental illness”, Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience (21–23 September 2023, University of Bucharest)

Claudia SERBAN, “From tendencies and drives to affectivity and ethics within a phenomenology of intersubjectivity. A focus on the mother-child relationship according to Scheler and Husserl”, Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience (21–23 September 2023, University of Bucharest)

Ovidiu STANCIU, “The experience of the alien and the inter-world. From Waldenfels to Merleau-Ponty”, Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience (21–23 September 2023, University of Bucharest)

Nicolae TURCAN, “Discernment as saturated phenomenon”, Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience (21–23 September 2023, University of Bucharest)

Nicolae TURCAN, “Faith as experience or about wisdom”, Do we still need elders? Old age and wisdom, psalmody and harmony (6–7 November 2023, Babeș-Bolyai University).

Dragos DUICU, “Le soubassement affectif commun de la perception et de l’entendement”, Phénoménologie de l’inapparent (23 avril 2024, Institut Catholique de Toulouse).

Dragos DUICU, “Deux modèles ontologiques patočkiens du désir”, Le monde naturel et le mouvement de l’existence humaine dans la méditation des patočkiens trente-six ans après : Fécondité et radicalité de la pensée de Jan Patočka (13 mai 2024, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ, “The Historicity of Laughter in Phenomenology and Critical Theory”. Nordic Society for Phenomenology 20th Annual Conference: Between Past and Future: Existence, Embodiment, and Historicity. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, June 17–19, 2024.

Vasile VISOTCHI, “The Modified Presence of the Body in Schizophrenia”. Nordic Society for Phenomenology 20th Annual Conference: Between Past and Future: Existence, Embodiment, and Historicity. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, June 17–19, 2024.

Nicolae TURCAN, „The Hidden Present. Time and Eschatology in Jean-Yves Lacoste”, Tempo e apparire. Per una fenomenologia dell’eterno, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia, 13 July 2024.

Cristian CIOCAN, „The Time of Testimony”, Tempo e apparire.  Per una fenomenologia dell’eterno, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia, 13 July 2024.

Chris IONIȚĂ, „Martin Heidegger and Meister Eckhart: Towards a Disclosing Withdrawal. For an Affective Reduction”, The Many Worlds of Phenomenology: Umwelt – Mitwelt – Lebenswelt, Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology, Trnava, Slovakia, 4–6 September 2024.

Vasile VISOTCHI, „Mistrust in the World”, The Many Worlds of Phenomenology: Umwelt – Mitwelt – Lebenswelt, Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology, Trnava, Slovakia, 4–6 September 2024.

Cristian CIOCAN, “Experiencing World as Adversity. Affectivity and Fatigue”, The Many Worlds of Phenomenology: Umwelt – Mitwelt – Lebenswelt, Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology, Trnava, Slovakia, 4–6 September 2024.

Cristian CIOCAN, “Sedimentation and Fatigue”. What is Sedimentation? Consciousness, History, Language. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 5–7 December, 2024.

Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ, “Gesture and Original Abstraction”. What is Sedimentation? Consciousness, History, Language. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 5–7 December, 2024.

Ovidiu STANCIU „Vie et monde dans les Carnets philosophiques de Patočka”, Biennale internationale de la Société Francophone de Phénoménologie, “La vie”, 17-19 martie 2025, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice.

Cristian CIOCAN, “Affectivité et fatigue”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Dragos DUICU, “La voie d’accès phénoménologique aux fondements du désir”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Ovidiu STANCIU, “La théorie patočkienne des trois mouvements de l’existence humaine et la question de l’affectivité”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Maria GYEMANT, “Plaisir et douleur. Les sensations affectives aux limites de l’intentionnalité”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ, “The Feeling of Powerlessness: Phenomenological Takeaways from Early Critical Theory”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Natalie DEPRAZ, “Le trouble du cœur”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Vasile VISOTCHI, “Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Disembodiment in Schizophrenia”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Claudia SERBAN, “Accordage affectif et travail émotionnel”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Daniela DUMBRAVĂ, “Transition from anxiety to peace during the Jesus Prayer”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Chris IONIȚĂ, “Of whom is the Life of the Lived-Experience? Methodological Concerns with the First-Person Account of the Prayer of the Heart”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Nicolae TURCAN, “The Mysterious Presence of the Divine: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Jesus Prayer through Seven Micro-Phenomenological Interviews”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Cătălina CONDRUZ, “Micro-Phenomenological Insights into Psychosis: Challenges and New Perspectives”, La vie du cœur. Approches phénoménologiques de l’affectivité. Suivi de Micro-Phenomenology Workshop. Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France. May 15–18, 2025.

Cristian CIOCAN, “Affective Contagion and Being-Together in the Digital Sphere”, Phenomenology and Technology. 10th Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology. September 3 – 5, 2025 Riga, Latvia.

Natalie DEPRAZ, “Loving Hate and Hating Love in TikTok and Streaming Platforms. Phenomenology of the Antinomic Emotions”, Phenomenology and Technology. 10th Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology. September 3 – 5, 2025 Riga, Latvia.

Cristian CIOCAN, “Afectivitate și praxis”, Fenomenologie și praxis. Conferința anuală a Societății Române de Fenomenologie, Chișinău, 26-27 septembrie, 2025.

Daniela DUMBRAVA, participare la The XXIII World Congress of the International Association for the Study of Religions (IAHR), Kraków, Poland, 24-30 August 2025: Theory and theorizing in PhD research [I PhD Workshop]; II. PhD and Early Scholars Workshop: Publishing with NVMEN – Guidelines & Insights.

Nicolae TURCAN, “Libertatea ascezei și relația dintre trup și emoții în Filocalia. O abordare teo-fenomenologică ”, A Hundred Years of Confession and Their Impact on Contemporaneity (November 2–4, 2025, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca).

Ovidiu STANCIU, “Towards a Phenomenological Concept of Belonging”, The Crisis of the Land, World, Territory and Belonging, 8–9 December 2025, Universiteit Leiden

A. COLLECTIVE VOLUMES

Published:

1. Natalie Depraz et alii (ed.), Max Scheler (Alter. Revue de phénoménologie, vol. 31/2023).
2. Cristian Ciocan et alii (ed.), Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience, Human Studies, volume 49, Issue 1, 2025 (Scopus Q1).

In preparation:

1. Natalie Depraz & Cristian Ciocan (ed.), Existential Phenomenology of Emotions, Laval théologique et philosophique 2025 (Web of Sciences AHCI Q4)
2. Maria Gyemant, Françoise Dastur (ed.), Phenomenology and Psychopathology, Studia Phaenomenologica vol. 26 (2026) (Web of Sciences AHCI Q2)
3. Claudia Serban, Anthony Steinbock (ed.), Phenomenology of Affectivity, Studia Phaenomenologica vol. 27 (2027) (Web of Sciences AHCI Q2)

B. ARTICLES

Published:

1. Nicolae Turcan, “Faith as Experience. A Theo-Phenomenological Approach”, Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy 6 (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/diakrisis.2023.3 [Open Access] (ERIH Plus).
2. Dragoş Duicu, “Le tout de l’appartenance et le mouvement du monde remarques sur un essai contemporain de cosmologie phénoménologique”, Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, Volume 11 (2) 2023, 249–275, doi: https://doi.org/10.19079/metodo.11.2.249 [Open Access] (Scopus Q2).
3. Claudia Serban, “From Tendencies and Drives to Affectivity and Ethics: Husserl and Scheler on the Mother–Child Relationship”, Human Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1 (2024): 165–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09707-8 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
4. Ovidiu Stanciu, “Monde historique et problématicité du sens. Jan Patočka et le projet d’une philosophie phénoménologique de l’histoire”, Cités 97 (1) 2024. https://doi.org/10.3917/cite.098.0155
5. Ovidiu Stanciu, “Narrativity, Experience, and Meaning”, History and Theory, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12355 [Open Access] (Web of Science, AHCI Q1).
6. Nicolae Turcan, “Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience”. Human Studies, volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 183–196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09739-0 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
7. Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “The Limits to Owning One’s Behavior: Husserl’s Phenomenology of Involuntary Action”, Human Studies, volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 117–138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09747-0 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
8. Maria Gyemant, “Unconscious Emotions and the Limits of Phenomenology: Husserl, Lipps and Freud”. Human Studies, volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 139–162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09755-0 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
9. Nicolae Turcan, “‘The Hidden Present’: Time and Eschatology in Jean-Yves Lacoste”, Religions 2024, 15(9) 1067. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091067 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
10. Cătălina Condruz, “Mental Illness as an (Un)Limited Experience of Intersubjectivity”. Human Studies, volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 233–257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09774-x [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
11. Claudia Șerban, “Limits of Empathy, Limits of Alterity? The Challenges and Shortcomings of Empathy with Respect to Children and in Child Abuse Situations” Human Studies, volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 259–280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09777-8 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
12. Natalie Depraz, “What is an Antinomic Emotion?”, Human Studies, volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 163–181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09771-0 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
13. Cristian Ciocan et al., “Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience: Editors’ Introduction”. Human Studies Volume 48, Issue 1 (2025): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-025-09789-y [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
14. Dragos Duicu, “Que veut la nature, que veut la vie ? Deux approches phénoménologiques convergentes de la téléologie”, Studia Phaenomenologica 25 (2025): 139-158. https://doi.org/10.5840/studphaen2025257 (Web of Science, AHCI Q2)
15. Nicolae Turcan, “From Finitude to Transfiguration: A Theo-Phenomenological Reading of the Body in Eastern Orthodox Spirituality”, Religions 16 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060739 [Open Access] (Web of Science, AHCI Q2)
16. Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “The Determinate Negation of Scheler in Early Critical Theory,” in Phenomenology and the Frankfurt School, eds. C. Ferencz-Flatz, S. Jurga. Special Issue of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Routledge.
17. Ovidiu Stanciu, “Kojève, Kant and the Remnants of Paganism. On the Double Meaning of Dualism”, Continental Philosophy Review 58 (2025), 701–717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-025-09709-y [Open Access] (Web of Sciences AHCI Q1).
18. Ovidiu Stanciu, “Sortir de l’éléatisme. Jan Patočka et les impasses de l’ontologie sartrienne”, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger (2025) https://doi.org/10.3917/rphi.254.0499 (Web of Science AHCI Q4)
19. Dragoș Duicu, Ovidiu Stanciu, “Jan Patočka. Anthropologie philosophique et phénoménologie asubjective”, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3917/rphi.254.0447. (Web of Science AHCI Q4)
20. Dragoș Duicu, “L’éclosion du monde. La phénoménologie asubjective et le troisième mouvement de l’existence humaine”, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 2025.https://doi.org/10.3917/rphi.254.0467 (Web of Science AHCI Q4)
21. Vasile Visoțchi, “Mistrust in the World: From Perceptual Faith to Familiarity”, Human Studies, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-025-09814-0 [Open Access] (Scopus Q1).
22. Natalie Depraz, “Eugen Fink. De la surprise de l’apparaître: quand la surprise se perd dans la spéculation”, AUC Interpretationes 2025 (ERIH Plus).
23. Cristian Ciocan, “The Phenomenology of Fatigue: Effort, Powerlessness, and the Temporal Sedimentation of Weariness”, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10115-1 [Open Access] (Web of Science, AHCI Q1)
24. Natalie Depraz, “The Transformative Virtue of Surprise in Politics”, Rivista di estetica, 89 (2) 2025), LXV, pp. 34-55 [Open Access] (Scopus Q2, Web of Sciences AHCI Q3).

Accepted:

1. Maria Gyemant, “Plaisir et déplaisir dans la phénoménologie husserlienne. Sur les sentiments sensibles et leur rapport à l’intentionnalité”, Laval théologique et philosophique (Web of Science AHCI Q4).
2. Claudia Serban, “ La joie partagée (Mitfreude) : accordage affectif et travail émotionnel”, Laval théologique et philosophique (Web of Science AHCI Q4).
3. Cătălina Condruz, “Que ressent-on lorsqu’on ne ressent rien? Pour une reprise de la dynamique affective dans la psychose”, Laval théologique et philosophique (Web of Science AHCI Q4).
4. Cristian Ciocan, “Tiredness and Affectivity: Toward a Phenomenology of World-Disclosure in Peter Handke”, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Web of Science AHCI Q1).
5. Vasile Visotchi, “Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Disembodiment in Schizophrenia”, Husserl Studies (Web of Sciences AHCI Q1).
6. Christian Ferencz-Flatz, “Gesture as Original Abstraction. A Reflection on Bodily Sedimentation,” Continental Philosophy Review (Web of Science AHCI Q1).

Three vacant research assistant positions (for doctoral students) within the PNNR project “The Life of the Heart: Phenomenology of Body and Emotions”. More info on the website of the University of Bucharest.

Call for papers: Phénoménologie existentielle des émotions, in Laval théologique et philosophique 2025 (issue coordinated by Natalie Depraz and Cristian Ciocan).

Call for papers: Phenomenology and Psychopathology, in Studia Phaenomenologica vol. 26 / 2026 (issue coordinated by Françoise Dastur and Maria Gyemant).

Interview with Natalie Depraz (Mihaela Dedeoglu – RFI Romania, 22.09.2023): https://www.rfi.ro/emisiunile-rfi-ro-160456-despre-fenomenologie-cu-natalie-depraz