Published on Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Abstract
Eros plays a central role in Western thought. In the philosophical and spiritual traditions, it usually refers to physical love and desire. Eros is a recurring character in the pre-Socratic cosmogonies, and it is the main impulse of the philosophical quest for truth in Plato’s Phaedrus. This Special Topics issue of PhænEx wishes to give a new impulse to philosophical reflections on this fundamental and ambiguous phenomenon, following an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersection of phenomenology, post-structuralism, and social sciences (psychology, sociology, sexology, anthropology, linguistics, etc.).
Announcement
PhænEx is an electronic peer-reviewed and bilingual journal affiliated with the Canadian-based Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (http://eptc-tcep.net).
Special topic issue : faces of Eros Vol. 12, no 1 (Summer/Spring 2017)
Argument
Eros plays a central role in Western thought. In the philosophical and spiritual traditions, it usually refers to physical love and desire. Eros is a recurring character in the pre-Socratic cosmogonies, and it is the main impulse of the philosophical quest for truth in Plato’s Phaedrus. In the Symposium, Plato also unveils its fundamental ambiguity as half divine and half human, where the desire to merge the opposing sides involves beauty and ugliness, profusion and need. Eros is at the intersection of gift and possession, of radical openness and selfish desire, of interested disinterest and mystical transport, mixing clairvoyance and blindness. Thanks to the manifold nuances of the erotic-sensuous genius that fascinated Kierkegaard, eroticism both produces and dissolves several dimensions of human existence, sociality, understanding, and speech. This Special Topics issue of PhænEx wishes to give a new impulse to philosophical reflections on this fundamental and ambiguous phenomenon, following an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersection of phenomenology, post-structuralism, and social sciences (psychology, sociology, sexology, anthropology, linguistics, etc.).
submission guidelines
Deadline for Open Issue submission: October 1, 2016.
To Submit: Register or log-in if already registered. Submissions must be made through the journal’s website.
Select author and then follow the step-by-step instructions.
Submissions in both French and English are accepted, and all papers will be peer reviewed.
Lead Editors
- Élodie Boublil, elo.boublil[a]gmail.com
- Chiara Piazzesi, piazzesi.chiara[a]uqam.ca
Subjects
- Thought (Main category)
- Mind and language > Thought > Philosophy
- Society > Sociology > Gender studies
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology > Cultural anthropology
- Mind and language > Thought > Intellectual history
- Society > Science studies > Philosophy of science
- Society > History > Women's history
- Society > Sociology > Sociology of culture
Date(s)
- Saturday, October 01, 2016
Keywords
- phénoménologie, existentialisme, Éros, corps, désir, body, phenomenology, existentialisme, philosophy, desire
Contact(s)
- Christiane Bailey
courriel : christianebailey [at] gmail [dot] com
Information source
- Christiane Bailey
courriel : christianebailey [at] gmail [dot] com
License
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To cite this announcement
« Faces of Eros », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, October 27, 2015, https://doi.org/10.58079/tjl