Phenomenology of Phenomenology
A special issue of Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 60
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Phenomenology originally constitutes a phenomenology of phenomenology, in that it logically appears to itself as a plural phenomenon. Unlike natural and human sciences, Husserl’s “rigorous science” is, thus, permeated with a potentially regressive character that echoes cognate contemporary debates in analytical meta-philosophy.
The topic “Phenomenology of Phenomenology” historically burgeons from a Freiburg-based methodological issue (Husserl, Fink, Heidegger), surfacing later among French-speaking readers (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Trần Đức Thảo). In the broad sense, phenomenology appears to the phenomenologist in a myriad of challenging forms, such as logical research, transcendental idealism, fundamental ontology, etc. However, its plurivocity is at stake when it is revealed to itself as a phenomenology of the inapparent (Heidegger) and reaches a phenomenality that no longer appears to someone within the world but self-appearing, at the price of reductive, eidetical and intersubjective mediations (Michel Henry). Ultimately, phenomenology would appear to itself as inapparent, as a scholastic field that scholars would have to elaborate metaphysically, structurally, dialectically, analytically, ethically or cosmologically.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions from contrasting philosophical traditions, East and West, to address this problem which unites the phenomenological movement, and we urge contributors to reconsider the following question: what are phenomenologies?
Dr. Michel Dalissier
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phenomenology
- metaphysics
- appearing
- meta-philosophy
- interculturality
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