Intertwinings

Michael Staudigl

Michael Staudigl teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy (University of Vienna) where he is also a member of the research center "Religion and transformation in contemporary society." Granted several research fellowships, he worked in Freiburg, Prague, Louvain-la-Neuve, and New York. He was a scientific assistant at the psycho-traumatological unit ESRA in Vienna from 2000-2002, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) from 2003-2010 and held an APART fellowship at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2003-2006). As of 2007 onwards, he has directed several research grants funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Funds), most recently the bilateral project "The Return of Religion as a Challenge for Thought" (FWF I 2785 - with B. Klun, Slovenia) and the stand-alone project "Secularism and its Discontents: Toward a Phenomenology Religious Violence" (FWF P 29599).

Research Focus: Continental philosophy, contemporary French philosophy, phenomenology (classical and contemporary), interdisciplinary violence studies, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of religion and religious violence, philosophy of the social sciences.

Selected Book Publications:  Phänomenologie der Gewalt (Springer, 2015, Revised and enlarged English transl. forthcoming); Co-Editor, Konturen europäischer Gastlichkeit (Velbrück, 2016); Editor, Gesichter der Gewalt (Fink, 2014); Editor, Phenomenologies of Violence (Brill, 2013); Co-Editor., Bedingungslos? Zum Gewaltpotential unbedingter Ansprüche im  Kontext politischer Theorie (Velbrück, 2014); Editor, Alfred Schutz and Religion (Special Issue Human Studies 40, no. 4, 2017); Co-Editor, Beyond Myth and Enlightenment: Reconsidering Religion (Special Issue of Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 17, no. 2, 2018); Editor, Phenomenologies of Religious Violence (Special Issue of Continental Philosophy Review 53, no. 3, 2020); Co-Editor, Phenomenology and the Post-secular Turn (Routledge 2021); Phänomenologien des Politischen (Springer VS 2024); Co-Editor, In the shadows of religious experience: Hostility, violence, revenge (Special Issue of Religions 13/14, 2022)

Barbara Weber

Dr. Barbara Weber is a Full Professor at the University of British Columbia, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, and an Adjunct Professor at the UBC Philosophy Department. In 2021 she received an Honorary Professorship by the International Institute for Hermeneutics (University of Warsaw). Prior to her arrival at UBC, Dr. Weber held the Professorship for Civic Engagement and Values Education at the Philosophy Department of the University of Regensburg. 

Research Focus: Phenomenological and hermeneutic theories on embodiment, empathy, reason (Vernunft), Human Rights philosophies, contemporary political philosophy, and philosophies around time, beginning, and childhood. 

Recent Book Publications: Zwischen Vernunft und Mitgefühl: Jürgen Habermas und Richard Rorty im Dialog über Wahrheit, politische Kultur und Menschenrechte (Freiburg: Alber, 2013);  Vernunft, Mitgefühl und Körperlichkeit: Eine phänomenologische Rekonstruktion des politischen Raumes (Freiburg: Alber,  2013); Philosophieren mit Kindern zum Thema Menschenrechte: Vernunft und Mitgefühl als Grundvoraussetzungen einer demokratischen Dialogkultur (Freiburg: Alber, 2013); Thinking, Childhood and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, Eds.),  Drapalo, K., Weber, B., Wec, K., & Wiercinski, A. (Eds.). (in press). Subject, identity, and care: Educational (Dis)closures (Brill/Fink

1 On Exploring the Intertwining: Engaging with the Thoughts and Writings of James Mensch.- Part I Reconfiguring Subjectivity.- 2 Another Beginning: On Birth, Childhood, and the Existential State of Being Human.- 3 Jan Patocka and James Mensch on World and Movement.- 4 The Path of Phenomenology: James Mensch and Jan Patocka on Subjectivity.- Part II Unthinking Embodiment and its Implications.- 5 Self-Identity from the Perspective of the Body.- 6 Paradigm Changes in Times of Pandemics, Embodied Vulnerability, and Responsibility.- 7 Merleau-Ponty's Parallel Between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Poetry from Baudelaire and Akhmatova.- Part III Unfolding the Phenomenology of Time.- 8  Ego Splitting and Intuitive Presentifications.- 9 Intersubjective Constitution of Time in the C-Manuscripts.- 10 In the Flow of Experience: Genetic Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis Toward a New Subjectivity Model.- Part IV Probing the Foundations of the Ethico-Political.- 11 Empathy and Trust as Different Foundations of Ethics.- 12 Living In: A Sketch for an Oikology.- 13 Pandemic Times and James Mensch's Political Philosophy.- Part V On Violence and the Wager of Dialogue.- 14 Shame: Experiencing, Enduring and Resisting the Violence of Vulnerability.- 15 Jan Patocka on War: From Hysterical Men to the Solidarity of the Shaken.- 16 The Affective Ambiguity of Violence: A Study in the Phenomenology of Spectacular Violence.- 17 Epilogue.