Assistant Professor of Philosophy Aldea Andreea Smaranda

Transcendental Phenomenology as Critique – Limits, Possibilities, and Beyond

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The project, entitled 'Transcendental Phenomenology as Critique – Limits, Possibilities, and Beyond,' challenges the pervasive view that given phenomenology’s commitment to studying the universal structures of experience, it cannot do justice to its historically constituted layers. Through analyses and developments of Edmund Husserl’s work, the project sheds new light on what phenomenology can accomplish socio-culturally and politically. Phenomenology emerges as a distinctive kind of radical immanent critique uniquely situated to diagnose and address current unjust and oppressive practices of marginalization and exclusion in registers such as gender, race, and disability.