Category: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

August 16, 2022

Q&A: Eva von Redecker and Lucy Duggan on Praxis and Revolution

The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. In Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation, Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold account of how revolution...

August 9, 2022

Writing Through Multiple Alienation

Chiara Cappelletto

Embodying Art has been an experiment in thinking on paper through self-alienation. Starting from Samuel Fleck’s draft translation of my Neuroestetica, published in Italian a decade ago, I had originally planned to update, expand, and substantially revamp the text while...

June 15, 2022

The Role of Narrative and Narrative Activism in Social Movements

Michele Moody-Adams

It has often been said that “those who tell the stories rule the world.” Versions of this claim can be found in sources as varied as Plato’s dialogues, traditional Hopi wisdom, and a recent work such as Narrative Economics (2019)...

February 24, 2022

Gary L. Francione on Why Veganism Matters

Most people think that animals matter morally. That is, they reject the view, popular in the West up until the nineteenth century, that animals are just things that are excluded completely from the moral and legal community. They think that...

September 23, 2021

You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity

A Quiz and Book Excerpt

More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we display ourselves to a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our...

September 23, 2021

Of Understanding Experience and the Experience of Understanding

By Sonam Kachru

Time was when the words of Vasubandhu, the influential Buddhist philosopher from Peshawar (fl. late fourth–early fifth centuries C.E.), could be imagined to be part of the ecology of a place—as when the Sanskrit poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa intimated that Vasubandhu’s Treasury...

September 23, 2021

Browse Our SPEP 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Wendy Lochner

Welcome to the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)’s first virtual meeting! Although I will miss seeing everyone in person, Zoom is a vast improvement on cancellation, and this meeting is a tribute to everyone who came together to...

October 10, 2020

Video: Todd McGowan in Conversation with Richard Boothby on Emancipation After Hegel

 “Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel could not come at a more appropriate time: the time when we truly need to carefully (re)think and reestablish the idea of emancipation. The book does this in a brilliant and compelling way, taking contradiction—as understood...

October 10, 2020

Noëlle McAfee on Our Paranoid Politics

“In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read...

October 9, 2020

Video: Penelope Deutscher and Jana Sawicki in Conversation with Lynne Huffer on Foucault’s Strange Eros

 “In a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book...

October 8, 2020

Join Wendy Lochner for a Tour of our SPEP Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, philosophers of all stripes and types. I’m Wendy Lochner, the philosophy editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the fall/winter conferences—the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association Eastern...

September 11, 2020

Video: Bernard E. Harcourt Asks, “Can Critical Theory Change the World?”

 “Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical...