Current Call for Submissions

The journal Études Phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies is seeking submissions in English for its 13th issue:

“Nature and Forms of Affectivity”

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Historical or comparative studies, such as:

  • The genesis of the philosophical problem of affectivity in German phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler, Patočka)

  • The central role of affectivity in French phenomenology (Sartre, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Henry, Maldiney)

  • The place of emotions in the phenomenological movement

  • The role of empathy in the constitution of the subject (Husserl, Levinas, and others)

  • “Moods” (Stimmungen) as connecting an embodied consciousness to a common world (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Binswanger, Maldiney)

Phenomenological treatment of specific problems, such as:

  • The affective potential of art

  • The import of affectivity in intersubjective relations (such as anxiety, guilt, resentment, grief, shame, among others)

  • Affectivity, narrativity, and selfhood

  • The fragility of affective intentionality and the risk of manipulation (in political discourse, social media, artificial intelligence)

  • Affectivity and the phenomenological “feel” of experience in cognitive science

  • The motivating power of affectivity in environmental studies

The deadline for submission is October 1, 2027

Send articles in English to: pol.vandevelde@marquette.edu

Envoyer les articles en Français à: etudes-pheno@uclouvain.be

See the full call for papers in English and French here

 Other Submissions

The journal also accepts free submissions, not related to the topic of the issue, for its Varia section.

Études Phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in French and English both in print and online. The journal follows the same spirit of openness to various perspectives that was to be found in Études Phénoménologiques, which was founded in 1985 by Jacques Taminiaux, who remained its editor until 2008. The publication of the journal is the result of a collaboration between the Centre d’études phénoménologiques at the Université catholique de Louvain and the Department of Philosophy at Marquette University. It is published by Peeters and edited by Pol Vandevelde and Danielle Lories.

The journal is dedicated to the general task of showing the relevance and fruitfulness of phenomenology for contemporary issues in philosophy, and of being a forum for discussion of such issues. One of its goals is to bridge the gap between history and philosophy, between continental and analytic philosophy, and between theory and application.

The journal welcomes (1) historical studies of particular authors within the phenomenological tradition or historical accounts of particular issues as well as (2) systematic analyses of a topic or a problem on which phenomenology can make a contribution.

Études phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies is indexed in The Philosopher’s Index, International Philosophical Bibliography,  and European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+).

Online issues of the journal are available here. 

Please consult the journal’s guidelines for submission prior to submitting your manuscript.