Notes on Contributors
Lovisa Andén
is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Arctic University of Norway. She has edited and published Maurice Merleau‐Ponty’s course notes to Le problème de la parole (2020). Her research examines questions of representation, truth and experience in witness literature. Among her publications in English are “Literary Testimonies and Fictional Experiences. Gulag Literature between Facts and Fiction” (Studia Phaenomenologica 21 (2021): 197–223); “Literature and the Expressions of Being in Merleau‐Ponty’s Unpublished Course Notes” (Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 50, no. 3 (2019): 208–19).
Jeffrey Andrew Barash
is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amiens, France. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Chicago and his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Philosophie at the University of Paris Ouest—Nanterre. He is the author of several books, which include: Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning (second, paperback edition, New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), Politiques de l’histoire. L’historicisme comme promesse et comme mythe (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004), Collective Memory and the Historical Past (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, second paperback edition, 2020), and Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2022). He has also edited the book The Social Construction of Reality. The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Ileana Borţun
is a researcher at the “Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy (Bucharest), founded by the Romanian Society for Phenomenology. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest in 2014, with a thesis arguing for the possibility of an ethics based on Heidegger’s existential analytic, through a constructive dialogue with Levinas’s and Arendt’s critiques of it. Among her publications in English are “Substitution and Mit(da)sein: An Existential Interpretation of the Responsibility for the Other” in L. Foran and R. Uljée, eds., Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida: The Question of Difference, Contributions to Phenomenology 86 (Cham: Springer, 2016); and “Authenticity and Plurality: From Heidegger’s ‘Anyone’ to Arendt’s ‘Common Sense’ and Back Again” in H. Schmid and G. Thonhauser, eds., From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity. Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory, Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality 10 (Cham: Springer, 2017).
Roland Breeur
teaches modern and contemporary philosophy at the KU Leuven, Belgium. He is specialized in French thought and literature. After writing his PhD on Marcel Proust, and publishing works on Descartes, Malebranche, Bergson, Sartre and Deleuze, he shifted his investigative focus to a philosophical analysis of problems of stupidity, imposture and lies. Among the books he published are Autour de Sartre: La conscience mise à nu (Grenoble: Millon, 2005), Autour de la bêtise (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018), L.I.S.: Lies—Imposture—Stupidity (Vilnius: Jonas ir Jokūbas, 2019), and Au tour de l’imposture (Paris: Vrin, 2022).
Cristian Ciocan
is a senior researcher at the University of Bucharest and Editor‐in‐Chief of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He is President of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP), and Vice‐President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology. He is the author of Levinas Concordance (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005; with G. Hansel), Moribundus sum. Heidegger și problema morții (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2007), Întruchipări. Studiu de fenomenologie a corporalității (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2013), Heidegger et le problème de la mort: existentialité, authenticité, temporalité (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014), Violență și animalitate: explorări fenomenologice (Bucharest: Spandugino & Zeta Books, 2022). He has also edited several collective books and journal issues on violence, animality, and embodiment.
Wout Cornelissen
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Previously, he held positions at the Freie Universität Berlin, Vanderbilt University, Utrecht University, Bard College, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Leiden University. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, their histories included, and twentieth‐century continental philosophy. He is co‑editor of the new, critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2024). Other publications include: “Arendt on the Activity of Thinking,” in: The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt, 2020, and “Thinking in Metaphors,” in: Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s Denktagebuch (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
Dorothée Legrand
is a CNRS researcher in philosophy based at the Husserl Archives, ENS, Paris. She is also a psychologist and psychoanalyst. As a clinician, she works in private practice, as well as for two organizations working with people in exile (MigrENS and Le Chêne et l’Hibiscus). Since 2014, she has organized a monthly seminar bringing together philosophy and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Écrire l’absence: Au bord de la nuit (Paris: Hermann, 2019); with Dylan Trigg, she co‑edited Unconsciousness Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis, Contributions to Phenomenology 88 (Cham: Springer, 2017).
Aoife McInerney
is a doctoral researcher with the Department of Philosophy at both University of Limerick (Ireland) and Radboud University (The Netherlands). Her research centers on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt and its intersection with the phenomenological tradition. Her project investigates the resources within Arendt’s spatial ontology for the successful navigation of both the political and, more generally, the natural world in the face of current ecological crises. Her research interests include political philosophy, phenomenology, continental philosophy, feminism, and philosophy of culture. Her project is funded by the Irish Research Council, Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship.
Jean‐Philippe Pierron
is a philosopher and Head of the “Values of Care” chair at the University of Burgundy (France). His work explores the relationships between health and environment, focusing on the role of the imaginaries, the imagination, and the image, while building up a poetics of action. He is the author of Le passage de témoin (Paris: Cerf, 2005); La poétique de l’eau. Essai pour une autre écologie (Paris: F. Bourin éditeurs, 2018); Prendre soin de la nature et des humains. Médecine, travail et écologie (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019); Je est un nous. Enquête sur nos interdépendances avec les vivants (Arles: Actes Sud, 2021); Méditer comme une montagne. Exercices d’attention à la Terre et à ceux qui la peuplent (Paris: Les éditions de l’atelier, 2023) and he edited Eduquer en anthropocène (Bordeaux: Le bord de l’eau, 2019).