CFP: Phenomenological Anthropologies and Forms of the Human

In the context of contemporary phenomenology, the issue of anthropology reappears as an irreducible problem to definitions, closed typologies, or normative models of the human being. From Husserl to contemporary phenomenologies, the human being manifests a mode of appearing that occurs in the world, in the body, in affectivity, in relation to the other, in finitude, in historicity, and in openness to what exceeds it. In this sense, the human phenomenon compels us to think of anthropology without essentialisation, attentive to donation, to the event, to original passivity, to exposure, and to the distance the subject maintains from itself.

This dossier invites scientific articles that critically address phenomenological anthropologies, understood as attempts to think about the human from its mode of appearing, rather than from a prior definition. The focus is particularly on exploring how the human phenomenon exceeds the classical horizon of philosophical anthropology and opens possibilities for understanding the human being as one who gives itself in encounter, who is constituted in relation, who discovers itself thrown, affected, exposed, called, or received.

Contributions are expected to engage, among others, with issues such as:

• the impossibility or necessity of an anthropology without essentialist definition

• the status of the lived body and flesh

• donation, passivity, and receptivity as anthropological keys

• alterity, intersubjectivity, and encounter

• finitude, affectivity, and vulnerability

• the event and its impact on understanding the human

• the relationship between anthropology, phenomenology, and hermeneutics

• tensions between subjectivity, ipseity, and the decentring of the self

Articles may engage with classical and contemporary authors of the phenomenological tradition, such as Husserl, Scheler, Stein, Plessner, Gehlen, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Marcel, Ricœur, Henry, Marion, Dastur, Falque, Lacoste, Waldenfels, Serban, Depraz, Mensch, Zahavi, among others, as well as with current debates surrounding the very possibility of a phenomenological anthropology.

The dossier will be published in Mutatis Mutandis: International Journal of Philosophy. Submissions must strictly adhere to the editorial guidelines, presentation, citation, and evaluation standards available in www.revistamutatismutandis.com.