We are pleased to announce the publication of the new issue of Philosophy and Society (Vol. 37, No. 3).
This issue features a thematic section titled “Phenomenology, Historical A Priori and the Quasi-Transcendental: Mapping the Complexity of What is Unfolding,” guest-edited by Emanuele Caminada and Olga Nikolić Marić. The section examines the historical a priori and the quasi-transcendental as two related attempts to rethink the transcendental question under conditions of historicity. It asks how conditions of possibility can retain their constitutive force once they are understood as historically constituted, socially mediated, and open to transformation.
Contributions in the thematic section approach these questions through Kant, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and contemporary critical phenomenology. They explore topics including the historicity and plasticity of the a priori and transcendental structures, generativity, facticity, embodiment, contingency, and situatedness, while tracing different lines of critique directed both at social reality and at the phenomenological tradition itself. The section aims to provide an orientation within these ongoing debates and to open a discussion of how phenomenology and its interlocutors rethink the relations between history, constitution, and freedom.
In addition to the thematic section, the issue includes a range of original research articles covering topics in political philosophy and social theory. These include a broad range of discussions of immigration, sovereignty, Heidegger, Marx, Aristotle, and parental perceptions of play and children’s toys. The issue also includes a transcript of a seminar with the architect Patrik Schumacher and fellows of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, as well as a review of Wouter J. Hanegraff’s book Esotericism in Western Culture.
The entire new issue of Philosophy and Society is available on the journal’s website.
Philosophy and Society is a peer-reviewed, open access academic journal established in 1987 by members of the Belgrade Praxis Group. Today, it is published by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade on a quarterly basis. Philosophy and Society covers and presents key trends in contemporary theory; moreover, it encourages research in the fields of philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences. Since its inception, the journal has welcomed contributions from established international academics: the first issue of Philosophy and Society featured articles by Albrecht Wellmer and Richard J. Bernstein, while the most recent issues include contributions from T. M. Scanlon, Otfried Höffe, Jean-Luc Marion, Judith Butler, Hauke Brunkhorst, Kennet R. Westphal, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Maurizio Ferraris, Dan Zahavi, Paul Cobben, and other renowned philosophers and social theorists.
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