CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025)
Ekstasis: Journal of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology announces the call for papers to select unpublished articles, reviews, and translations for the next issue.
Dossier “Phenomenology and/of Illness”
Deadline for submissions July 31st, 2025
Guest editors: Marcelo Vieira Lopes (UFSM-Brazil) and Róbson Ramos dos Reis (UFSM-Brazil)
One of the main aspects of contemporary phenomenology is the assumption that certain empirical findings could inform or even correct philosophical descriptions of experience. Important issues like the nature of embodiment, temporality, affectivity, etc., could thus undergo an inflection based on the results of these same sciences.
Within this general framework, the interaction of Philosophical Phenomenology and the health sciences plays a dual and mutually enlightening role: on the one hand, it assumes that the description of pathological states can influence or even correct classical phenomenological descriptions; on the other hand, phenomenological descriptions of pathological experiences exhibit a potential impact on healthcare, by providing not only theoretical tools for analyzing and describing these phenomena but also practical impacts in the diagnostic, nosological and therapeutic aspects of such conditions.
One of the main results of this interaction is a research program committed to describing and understanding the phenomena of health and illness from a first-person perspective. Represented by names such as Drew Leder, Kay Toombs, Havi Carel, Fredrik Svenaeus among others, but also drawing inspiration from names in classical phenomenology such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, the phenomenological approach to illness has become increasingly influential not only in the philosophy of medicine and bioethics but also in applied areas such as Qualitative health research, Nursing studies, Psychiatry, etc.
Given the importance and recent developments in this field (especially in Brazil and Latin America), we invite potential contributors to reflect upon these issues along the following general lines (although not restricted to them):
- Phenomenological and Hermeneutic approaches to health and illness
- Phenomenological Psychopathology
- Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Daseinsanalysis
- Phenomenology and Qualitative research
- Phenomenology and Nursing
- Phenomenology and Physiotherapy
- Phenomenology, evidence-based medicine and practice
- Epistemic injustice in healthcare
Articles and reviews may be in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian or German.
Contact: revistaekstasis@gmail.com
Saiba mais sobre CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025)