1. The Monstrous Other as a Challenge to the Integrity of the Self
Anna Alichniewicz MD PhD is Assistant Professor at the Chair of Humanities at the Medical University of Łódź. She obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Lodz, Poland. A philosopher and bioethicist, her professional interests are focused on phenomenology of embodiment, philosophical problems of human enhancement, philosophy of death & bioethical end-of-life issues, and the critique of gender stereotypes in bioethical and medical discourses.
2. Theopoetics at the Threshold of Phenomenology and Theology
Dr. Sema Cevirici Atilla is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University (BSEU), Türkiye. Her research focuses on continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, deconstruction, and weak theology. She is currently leading a TÜBİTAK-funded project on weak philosophy and theology through contemporary continental thought.
3. In the Presence of Saints: On the Phenomenon of Relics
Tareq Ayoub is a doctoral candidate at Western University in Ontario, currently working on a phenomenological interpretation of esotericism and mysticism, as well as a phenomenology of communal and religious attitudes. In addition to his academic research, he taught philosophy and critical thought at the American University of Beirut and Lebanese American University. He is currently a teaching assistant at the philosophy department at Western University.
4. Natural Light (Lumen Naturale) as Pre-Rational Awareness of My and the Others’ Entangled Striving
Marian Baukrowitz lectures in philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. He has written his doctoral dissertation about Wittgenstein as a religious thinker. His recent research focuses on the self and creation. Monographies: “Wittgenstein: Die ordnende Lesart” (2020), “Selbstlüge” (2023), “Selbstschöpfung” (2025).
5. Wounding Words – Being a Self in the Face of Verbal Violence
Maja Berseneva is a Prae Doc phenomenological researcher at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her work explores embodiment, agency, selfhood, and the effects of violence on lived experience. Drawing on Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and feminist phenomenology, she investigates how selves take shape through bodily responsiveness, social encounters, and processes of meaning-making.
6. Embodying Evil: Contextualizing Kant’s Radical Evil and Priestcraft in Husserl’s Lifeworld to Witness Their Becoming, Overcome Their Spell, and Maintain a Responsibility to Humanity and the Other
Keli “Animal” Birchfield, Founder and Philosopher in Chief of The Lawn Chair Philosophy Foundation, received her MA in philosophy from Temple University and is three credits shy of receiving an MA in writing studies from St. Joseph’s University in Philly, where she also teaches in the philosophy department.
7. Expansiveness, Embodied Alterity and the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Religious Experience
Hrvoje Čargonja is assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia where he teaches classes on: Hinduism, shamanism and qualitative research methods. He obtained MSc in molecular biology and PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Zagreb. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Gavin Flood (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford University), was research on religious experience in the Hare Krishna movement. He conducted his fieldwork in Croatia, UK and India. His special research interests include cultural phenomenology, the Hare Krishna movement and phenomenology of religious experience.
8. Inner Alterity in Religious Experience: Felt Presence, Agency Attribution, and the Self–Model in a Phenomenological Philosophy of Mind
Paweł Czarkowski is a second-year Psychology and first-year Philosophy student at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His research interests include the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and the conceptual foundations of psychology. He aims to pursue an academic career integrating philosophical inquiry with empirical research.
9. Digital Facades and Disembodied Encounters: A Phenomenological Analysis of “Otherness” in the Dating App Experiences
Bartosz Chmielarski is a student from Jagiellonian University in Kraków Poland. Right now I’m enrolled in a 5-year Psychology Master’s programme and after that I will seek a Master’s and PhD in Philosophy. My main interests are Ethics and Moral Psychology.
10. Hopeful Asymmetry- Shame, Ethical Paralysis, and the Persistence of Responsibility in Emmanuel Levinas
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eseok Choi is a Jesuit priest and a first-year M.A. student in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering and his M.S. in Urban Planning from Seoul National University in South Korea. He also holds an M.A. in Philosophy and an M.Div. (Master of Divinity) from Sogang University, as well as an S.T.L. (Master of Sacred Theology) from Boston College.
11. Heaven, as well as Hell, is Other People: Sartre and Levinas on the traumatic glory of the other’s revelation
Matthew Coate is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University. His research, which is primarily concerned with the human condition and our basic moral vocation, is largely carried out using the phenomenological method and sits in the intersection of social/political philosophy and philosophical psychology.
12. Before the Other: The Muṯannā and the Event of Otherness
Frank Darwiche, Ph.D. in philosophy, is Chairholder of Contemporary Theologies of Islam (TheoContis) at the Université de Lorraine (France). His research develops the concept of the muṯannā (duel) as a relational ontology at the intersection of philosophy, Islamic theology, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He is currently completing his habilitation on the philosophy of relation and covenant (ʿahd).
13. From Apodictic Evidence to the Experience of Reality: A Reading of Husserl’s Fifth Cartesian Meditation
Marine de la Tour is an associate researcher at the University of Erfurt and teaches philosophy at the secondary level in Strasbourg. She holds a PhD from the Hochschule für Philosophie (Munich). Her doctoral dissertation focused on Ferdinand Ulrich. Her habilitation project explores the constitution of subjectivity at the intersection of phenomenology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy.
14. The Institution as (Big) Other: a Phenomenological Incursion with a Psychoanalytic Twist
Andrei Dorobăț graduated with BA in International Relations and European Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, and is currently studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Bucharest. Main research interests include: German Idealism, Modern Political Philosophy, the intersection between German and French phenomenology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Post-Hegelian Philosophy, and the Structuralist theory of semiotics.
15. New Angels: The Otherness of the Angelic Gaze in Benjamin, Stein, and Heidegger
Freja Værnskjold Dzougov is a PhD-student of Theology and The History of Ideas at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is writing her thesis about the use of angels in 20th century German and French philosophy. Her research interests include aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and the history of Jewish, Christian and Islamic thought.
16. Husserl’s Other Withstands Totality: Against Levinas’s Critique of Empathy
Hedieh Eghtesadi is a PhD Candidate in philosophy at McMaster University, Canada, specializing in Husserlian phenomenology. Her dissertation reconstructs Husserl’s account of implicit self-awareness in time-consciousness within genetic phenomenology, challenging the dominant framework and opening new ground for thinking about subjectivity and ethical life. Her research connects phenomenology, epistemology, and ethics.
18. Decolonizing the Name of God: A Levinassian Dialectic of Ethics and Politics
Christian Espano is a PhD student in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, working primarily in social and political thought, social epistemology, analytic philosophy of religion, and apophatic theology. He aims to present each position in its strongest plausible form while minimizing interpretive bias, and integrates philosophical inquiry into his teaching as a licensed educator.
19. Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Levinas on Anonymity and Naming
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uval Gaon is an MA student in Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, holding a BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from Shalem College. His research examines the relationship between language and personal identity within the phenomenological tradition. He currently serves as a teaching and research assistant while finalizing his thesis.
20. Exposure to the Other: World-Disclosure and World-Shattering in the Phenomenology of the Homeworld
Rui Ge is a first-year PhD student at the University of Kentucky. Research includes Husserlian phenomenology, continental philosophy, selfhood, worldhood.
21. The Other’s experience in a transcendental knowledge of the madness and future
Igor V. Gibelev PhD is an independent researcher who specializes in the philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and philosophical border theory. He is the author of over 50 advanced training courses in education, pedagogy, culture, and social processes.
22. The Other and the Role of the Observer according to Alfred Schütz
Maria Golebiewska – philosopher and philologist, Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences; fields of research – the epistemological, linguistic, and axiological questions; especially contemporary philosophy (phenomenology, philosophy of existence, semantics, aesthetics) and the modern sources of contemporary philosophy; nowadays, her studies concern the topics of normativity and axiology, considered in the phenomenological context.
23. Multilayered Other
Zura Gvenetadze, was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, earned my BA in Philosophy from Ilia State University, Tbilisi. After that, he pursued an Erasmus Mundus joint master’s program called Europhilosophy, studying at the University of Wuppertal in Germany and Charles University in the Czech Republic. After that, he did one year of Research Master in KU Leuven. Currently, he is a graduate student at DePaul University. His primary interests lie in phenomenology, existentialism, the history of philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He is particularly fascinated by the relationship between theory and practice—how some seemingly detached metaphysical ideas can influence certain type of ethics.
24. Otherness and the Sukkah of Being
Solvej Hartmann is a doctoral student at Charles University, Prague under supervision of Martin Nitsche. Her dissertation “The body as the place of the appearance of the Other“ is in the field of topological phenomenology, building on insights by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
25. Merleau-Ponty on the Reciprocity of Chiasm of Ourselves and Others
Hyun Höchsmann is a Visiting Professor Emerita, East China Normal University, and Visiting Researcher, Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel. Mingling the study of philosophy, art history, and literature at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and University of London, Hyun lingered at the fountains of the Sorbonne. Hyun has been working on Philosophy of Music, Plato, Hölderlin, Walter Benjamin, Chinese Philosophy, German Idealism, and Merleau-Ponty.
26. Silence as Ethical Restraint: When Not-Speaking Sustains Responsibility in Encounters with Otherness
Corine Jansen (Netherlands) is an independent scholar, listening practitioner, practitioner-researcher and essayist who developed the Architecture of Listening, a practice-based account of listening as an ethical phenomenon. Her work arises from professional encounters marked by vulnerability, responsibility, and power asymmetry, drawing on Emmanuel Levinas and phenomenological description.
27. The Socially Constituted Other: A Limit Concept for Husserlian Phenomenology
Kenneth Knies is Professor at the Sacred Heart University, USA. He works on problems of intersubjectivity and the philosophy of history in Husserl’s phenomenology. He also has interests in the broader phenomenological tradition as well as in ancient philosophy and Kant. Still, most of his mental energy is dedicated to the task of convincing undergraduates to think.
28. Every Other is (in) the Same/Every Same is (in) the Other: Derridean Divine Alterity and Its Critique of Levinas
Ella Lazar is a PhD student at the University of Vienna, Austria, studying the philosophical models of God’s alterity in the Kabbalistic tradition. Utilizing philosophical conceptions of alterity in the so-called continental tradition, she seeks to illuminate traditional Kabbalistic sources and bring them into productive dialogue with contemporary philosophy of religion.
29. The Unveiling of the Other in Solitude: John of the Cross’s Dark Nightand Husserl’s Epoché
Allister Lee is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. His research focuseson social phenomenology, philosophy of technology, and their intersections.Allister’s PhD project looks at how digitalisation, especially the growingimplementation of algorithms in digital spaces, reconfigure experiences ofcommunity and belonging by drawing on Edith Stein’s early phenomenology. He has other philosophical interests in Chinese philosophy, alongside aesthetics and culture.
30. “Older Than Presence”: Entgegenwärtigung, “Meontic” Unreality, and the Two Fates of Alterity
Christopher J. Lilly holds an MA in Liberal Arts (Philosophy) from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and studied philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College, Oxford. His research engages temporality and alterity in phenomenology and deconstruction, with a current focus on Vergegenwärtigung and Entgegenwärtigung in Fink, Levinas, and Derrida.holds an MA in Liberal Arts (Philosophy) from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and studied philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College, Oxford. His research engages temporality and alterity in phenomenology and deconstruction, with a current focus on Vergegenwärtigung and Entgegenwärtigung in Fink, Levinas, and Derrida.
31. Exhaustion and the Cost of Testimony: Otherness in ME/CFS and Long Covid
Marie Lippert holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and is currently a medical student. Her research operates at the intersection of phenomenology and clinical practice, with a particular focus on the lived experience of chronic illnesses such as ME/CFS and Long Covid. Her current work investigates the ethical and methodological implications of compromised narrative capacity, critically engaging with approaches like narrative medicine by examining the physiological cost of testimony.
32. Levinas against the state: a decolonial reading of Levinas’ Talmudic texts
Yonathan Busquila Listik is a lecturer at Leiden University, teaching courses on Decolonial Theory and Critical Political Theory. His current field of research is philosophy, more specifically, exploring contemporary political ontology in the continental tradition. He is also interested in the connections between Jewish philosophy, decolonial theory and aesthetics. His main interests are possible articulations of the idea of barbarism/stupidity.
33. The Otherness in the Categorical and Transcendental Beings: The Possible Theological Source for Heidegger’s Phenomenology
Ana Lomadze is a PhD student in Philosophy and an assistant researcher at Ilia State University (Georgia). Her academic research focuses on the history of philosophy, with a specific emphasis on medieval thought, exploring how historical and conceptual frameworks shape philosophical traditions, ontology, and the broader understanding of reality.
34. Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenology of Violence: From Limits of Legitimation to Metamorphosis
Michał Maczuga is a PhD student in Philosophy at the Doctoral School in the Humanities of Jagiellonian University and at the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy, University of Vienna. He is writing a dissertation on the phenomenology of violence, with a special focus on the problems of the phenomenological method.
35. From “I” and “You” to “We”: Henry and the “community of the living”
As a Ph.D. candidate in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Lorraine, Anthony MASQUELIER’s research focuses on the Work of Michel Henry, particularly on the concept of the “Language of Life”, which leads me to study phenomenology, analytic philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory and the concept of testimony.
36. Exploring Otherness in the Burnout Society: An Initial Exploration of the Concept of Friendship within Otherness with Emmanuel Levinas and Byung Chul Han
Patrick Andre C. Mencias, MA is faculty member at the Department of Language and Literature, Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines. He is a graduate of AB Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas(2019), his MA in Philosophy (2022) in the Graduate School of the same university. He has published papers on the philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas, and Florentino Hornedo.
37. When the Dead Refuse Distance: Otherness, Digital Testimony, and Metaphysical Verification in Contemporary Nigeria
Alapa Odugbo is a second-year PhD student in Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion. His work brings African studies, anthropology of religion, philosophy, ethnography, and disability studies together to examine illness, suffering, death, post-mortem presence, and personhood in Nigerian Christian and African metaphysical worlds through scholarly and creative methods practice.
38. The Transcendence of Religious Experience and its Naturalistic and Cognitive Scientific Understandings
Dr. Takashi Okinaga is a professor in philosophy at Teikyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. His research has focused on religious thought of William James, religious experience and neuroscience, and philosophy of Kyoto School. He has obtained PhD in Zen Buddhism from Kyoto University. Now, he studies modern panpsychism as an aspect of contemporary philosophy of mind.
39. The Displacement of Otherness: Horizons of Visibility and Ethical Demand
Damla Özçimen received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Istanbul University and her M.A. in Philosophy and Social Thought from Istanbul Bilgi University. Her master’s thesis, Community and Melancholy: Loss and Identification, examined the relationship between melancholy, loss, identification, and community through the works of Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault.
40. Becoming One’s Own Audience: Self-Witnessing and the Ambiguous Self
Priya Parikh is an independent scholar, writer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores questions of selfhood, perception, and embodiment across philosophy, film, and visual culture. Her current research focuses on phenomenology, experimental cinema, and creative practices as technologies of self-inquiry.
41. Self-Constitution and Alterity
Pritika Nehra holds Ph.D degree from IIT Delhi, specializing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. Her research focuses on Phenomenology, Political philosophy, Philosophy of Work, and contemporary Loneliness. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), IISER Mohali, India.
42. Alienation and the Other: A Levinassian Critique of the Subject
Björn Puhr is a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna in cotutelle with the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the joint supervision of Michael Staudigl and Jocelyn Benoist. His research focuses on the perception of silence between aesthetics and phenomenology and his interests cover metaphysics, political philosophy, aesthetics and sound studies.
43. Otherness in the Spiritual Experience of Bhakti
Poonam is a research scholar affiliated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is specialized in philosophy, and in the phenomenology of religious experience. The current research investigates Bhakti within the Indian context, utilizing qualitative case studies of Bhakti saints to offer insights into the nature and expression of devotional experiences.”
44. Encountering the Other Before Interpretation: Mystical Elements and Ontological Presence in Suhrawardi’s Narratives
Saman Rezaei holds a PhD in Transnational and Comparative Literatures from the University of Alberta. His research explores the emergence of meaning in mystical and spiritual experience through the intersections of Islamic philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and semiotics. His doctoral dissertation examined the ontological status of mystical elements in Suhrawardi’s mystical narratives, proposing an ontological account of encounter that moves beyond symbolic interpretation.
45. The Postphenomenological Self, the Cultural Other and the Artificial Third
Sharoni Risha Ray Sanyal is a doctoral candidate at Presidency University, Kolkata, India, navigating the murky waters of ontology of self and other. She holds Descartes responsible for all problems epistemological or otherwise, even rifts in our modern lives involving technology and our mental healths. With that in mind she one day hopes to design a bridge to somewhat reconcile the abysmal difference between self and other.
46. Otherness as the Other, Otherness as the Self: Empathy and Shame in the Constitution of Otherness
Simone Santamato is Ph.D. Student in Theoretical Philosophy and Aesthetics, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. My main interests are in phenomenology and ontology, in particular phenomenological psychopathology and phenomenology of the person. I am running a Ph.D. project regarding a phenomenological comprehension of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, with a focus on shame and embodied identity.
47. Voice and Alterity in Ideas 2
Timothy J Schatz is a doctoral student in the Philosophy Department at Villanova University with a focus on 19th-20th century continental philosophy (esp. Husserl and the phenomenological movement). Timothy’s research gravitates toward the intersection of phenomenology and traditional ontological and metaphysical questions.
48. Rationality and otherness in religious experiences: Some remarks on the Husserlian approach
Juraj Sücker is a doctoral student at the University of Bonn, Germany. He was born in Slovakia and studied philosophy (Bachelor and Master) at the University of Vienna. In his doctoral project he examines various possibilities of the constitution of truth in the so-called hyperbolical religious experiences. Grounded in phenomenology and the Husserlian framework, the projectoffers an interdisciplinary inquiry at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and religious studies.
49. L’enfer, c’est les autres? Reflections on the Other in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Buber
Dr. Konstantin Steuer studied philosophy, history, and Romance languages and literature in Cologne. He earned his doctorate in Koblenz with a dissertation on the relationship between values and freedom in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. His research focuses on existential philosophy and questions of metaethics. He currently works as a philosophy teacher.
50. A Mystical Revelation as the Other in the Hermeneutical Relationship between a Subject (the witness) and an Object (the vision)
Sally Stocksdale has taught history and political science for over 30 years. She is a history instructor at Towson University. Her research interests include a number of aspects of Russian and American history. She specializes in the history of Simbirsk Province in Russia. Utilizing the method of phenomenology, she studies the history of Eastern Orthodox dogma and religious experience.
51. Being-with-each-other in dia-logue(s). Ethical reflections about our in(-)dividuality from within our fundamental human engagement
Vanessa Schmitz, PhD candidate in Philosophy in a cotutelle between Charles University Prague and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen explores the original human engagement in respect to the relationaliti(es) of speaking-with-each-other and the glance in reference to her studies in Philosophy, Pedagogics and Litterature. Her main interest is in phenomenology, (feministic-) decolonial reflections, New Materialism, Ecophenomenology, Pedagogy, Political reflections, Pluriverse, Cosmology, Theories and Practices of Justice, Acting and Thinking in respect to ‘the’ In-Between, which is still explored in some articles.
52. In Love with the Mad Other: A Phenomenological Analysis of Love under the Conditions of Mental Illness
Polina Sinitsa (she/they) is a graduate philosophy student whose research brings together her academic training and a dedication to political activism. In her work, she adopts the lenses of critical phenomenology, critical social theory, and phenomenological
psychopathology. She has written on topics of queerness, embodiment, mental health, anti-fascism, and (feminist) rage.
53. The Ideal of Forgiveness as Reconciliation with Transcendence in Relation to the Other
Andrzej Słowikowski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. His research focuses on Kierkegaard’s thought, with particular emphasis on how it can contribute to research on the phenomenology of religious experience and to attempts to understand the problems of contemporary social and political life. His academic interests include existential philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture, and contemporary philosophy.
54. When Expression Fails: Indication and the Emergence of Otherness
Shohei Suzuki is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Tohoku University, Japan. His research focuses on Husserlian phenomenology, especially transcendental intersubjectivity, normality, objectivity, and the constitution of meaning. He is currently conducting research in Cologne, Germany, and explores connections between phenomenology, contemporary theories of language and experience, and anthropological approaches to human understanding.
55. Hierophantic Woman: An Eliadean Reading of Beauvoir’s Account of Woman as the Other
Kayleigh Timmer is completing a PhD at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her areas of interest include feminist philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of emotions. Her current areas of research include existential analyses of femininity, complicity, and bad faith; the affective experience of gender-based violence; and the relationship between social media and socio-political praxis.
56. The Temporal Asymmetry of Alterity: Levinas and Waldenfels on Belated Responsibility
My name is Attila Ákos Tóth. Having studied theology and philosophy, I am currently pursuing doctoral research at the Doctoral School of Philosophy of Eötvös Loránd University and teaching at St. Athanasius Theological Institute. My interests lie in XX century phenomenology, particularly in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Bernhard Waldenfels. I am especially concerned with the themes of otherness, alterity, and the experience of the alien.
57. Totality and Infinity (1961) to Otherwise than Being (1974): Separation and the Transformation of Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas
Cita Ingrid van den Heuvel is affiliated with Radboud University, Nijmegen. She holds Master’s degrees in Continental Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, and Literary Studies (ReMa), as well as an Educational Post-Master’s in Philosophy. Her previous research focused on Emmanuel Levinas, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Emanuele Coccia. Her current research explores themes of subjectivity, poetry, and voice.
58. Otherness for Hegel & Lacan: Constructing the Self through Desire
Ioana Welt graduated with a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Exeter,currently studying the same program at master’s level at the University of Bucharest. Her main research interests are phenomenology, German Idealism and post-Hegelian philosophy, in connection to political thought.
59. Why Can’t We Be Friends? Aristotle and Husserl on the Conditions of Friendship with Others
Kyril Wolfe is an independent researcher and curator of the SoPheRE blog. His research focuses on phenomenological approaches to grace and religious experience, as well as comparative work between phenomenology and ancient and medieval thought. He holds degrees in Classics and Theology and teaches high school Latin, Philosophy, and Literature.
60. The Disqualified Self
Rev. Paul Yoon’s research interests include narrative negotiation, alterity, epistemic injustice, evidential standing, and questions of appropriation in contemporary critical theory. His work undertakes an immanent, diagnostic critique of philosophical frameworks, with particular attention to the limits of narration, recognition, and evidence. He is an incoming PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Pretoria.
61. From Autre to Autrui: Levinas on Absolute Alterity, Enjoyment, and the Face
Jiajie Zhang is a master student in KU Leuven. His research focuses on French phenomenology, Philosophical theology and critical theory. Now he is working on his thesis on Levinas and Judaism mysticism.
62. No Direct Other, Yet No World Without Others: A Phenomenological Reconstruction of Alterity in Kant
Xiaochen Zhao is an independent scholar working in post-Kantian aesthetics and phenomenological hermeneutics, with a focus on sensibility, language, and translation. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and draws much of her philosophical inspiration from an enduring immersion in literature and fiction writing. Her recent work appears in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
63. Personhood as Event: Levinas’s Theory of Individuation and Its Difficulties
Jiang Zijing (Paloma) is a PhD candidate at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her research focuses on phenomenology, with particular interests in Levinas. Her conference paper centers on Levinas’s theory of individuation.
64. Immanent Alterity and the Question of the Other: Trika in Dialogue with Phenomenological Accounts of Alterity
Nancy Yadav, is a PhD candidate at the Center for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University. In my current work I try to attempt a cross pollination between Tantra and Affect studies, with primary focus on embodiment and affective experiences. Other areas of interest include Critical Posthumanities, Post Phenomenology, Critical philosophy and Aesthetics. I have formerly worked as a Research Assistant at the Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts for Minitsry of Culture’s National Mission for Cultural Mapping.