Bernhard Waldenfels

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    An interview with Bernhard Waldenfels
    with Kadir Filiz and Muhammed Vural
    Continental Philosophy Review 59 (1): 3-21. 2025.
    This is a translation of an interview with Bernhard Waldenfels by Kadir Filiz and Muhammed Vural, originally published in German in _Sabah Ülkesi_, vol. 80 (2024). Topics of discussion include his project of a responsive phenomenology of the alien, his intellectual development and personal life, and the dynamics of home and alien. The interview provides a cohesive introduction to the thought of Waldenfels and its relevance to both contemporary receptions of Husserlian phenomenology and current e…Read more
  • In his Lucas-Preis speech, Bernhard Waldenfels explains that the birth of ethos from pathos means that our actions are based on what happens to us and appeals to us before it is processed in a teleological, normative, or utilitarian way. We invent what we respond, but not what we respond to.
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    Responsive Ethik zwischen Antwort und Verantwortung
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (1): 71-82. 2010.
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    Das Eigene und das Fremde
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 43 (4): 611-620. 2014.
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    Perception and Structure in Merleau-Ponty
    Research in Phenomenology 10 (1): 21-38. 1980.
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    Das Fremde, interdisziplinär betrachtet
    In Barbara Schellhammer (ed.), Zwischen Phänomenologie und Psychoanalyse: Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Bernhard Waldenfels, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co. Kg. pp. 195-208. 2021.
  • Hearing Oneself Speak: Derrida's Recording of the Phenomenological Voice
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 32 (S1): 65-77. 2010.
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    Geweckte und gelenkte Aufmerksamkeit
    In Jörn Müller, Andreas Nießeler & Andreas Rauh (eds.), Aufmerksamkeit: Neue humanwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, Transcript Verlag. pp. 25-46. 2016.
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    Notes on Contributors
    with Rüdiger Campe, Julia Weber, Catherine Newmark, Niklaus Largier, Brigitte Weingart, Beate Söntgen, Bernhard Greiner, Rainer Nägele, Daniel Cuonz, Claudia Brodsky, Hermann Kappelhoff, David Freedberg, Joel Krueger, and Rebekka Hufendiek
    In Julia Weber & Rüdiger Campe (eds.), Rethinking Emotion: Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 381-384. 2014.
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    Contents
    with Rüdiger Campe, Julia Weber, Catherine Newmark, Niklaus Largier, Brigitte Weingart, Beate Söntgen, Bernhard Greiner, Rainer Nägele, Daniel Cuonz, Claudia Brodsky, Hermann Kappelhoff, David Freedberg, Joel Krueger, and Rebekka Hufendiek
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    Politics on the Borders of Normality
    Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 11 (1): 5-13. 2007.
  • Doubled Otherness in Ethnopsychiatry
    Schutzian Research 1 51-65. 2009.
    Starting from the experience of the Other, phenomenology takes otherness as something which withdraws from my own experience and exceeds the limits of our common orders. Radical otherness is something extraordinary, arising in my own body, situated between us and striking us before we look for it. Psychiatry confronts us with a peculiar sort of pathological otherness which in ethnopsychiatry is doubled to an otherness of a higher degree. We encounter the anomalies of other orders as if we were d…Read more
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    Phenomenology and Marxism (edited book)
    with Jan M. Broekman and Ante Pažanin
    Routledge. 2013.
    Originally published in English in 1984, this collection of essays documents a dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism, with the contributors representing a cross-section from the two traditions. The theoretical and historical presuppositions of the phenomenology inaugurated by Husserl are very different from those of the much older Marxist tradition, yet, as these essays show, there are definite points of contact, communication and exchange between the two traditions.
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    El decir y lo dicho en Emmanuel Lévinas
    Revista de filosofía (Chile) 61 153-167. 2016.
    Uno de los motivos más fuertes en el pensar de Lévinas es la distinción entre Decir y Dicho. El babia se escinde así por una consecuencia diacrónica inhe­rente al lenguaje. Esta propuesta levinasiana, que abre ricas perspectivas, re­quiere una elucidación fundamental. Esta se concentra en la alternativa de un Decir sin Dicho y de un Decir con/sin Dicho. Aquí proponemos la segunda posibilidad, la cual se opone al purismo implícito en la comprensión del Decir como un Decir puro, que evoca siempre …Read more
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    Responsivity and co-responsivity from a phenomenological perspective
    with Jose-Luis Luna-Bravo and Natalia Rodríguez-Martín
    Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 71 198-214. 2025.
    In this article, I will use terms such as “responsive” and “responsivity”, that became indispensable for my own thinking when I tried to develop a theory of radical Fremdheit. In this article I develop the basic features of this responsivity in which others are involved. Methodologically, I am guided by a variant of responsive phenomenology that is to be understood as a phenomenology grounded in the body. Crucial to this is the descent into a radical form of experience that precedes all construc…Read more
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    Responsividad y corresponsividad desde una perspectiva fenomenológica
    with Jose-Luis Luna-Bravo and Natalia Rodríguez-Martín
    Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 71 198-214. 2025.
    En este artículo utilizaré términos como “responsivo” y “responsividad”. Estos términos no forman parte de la filosofía tradicional. Se hicieron indispensables para mi propio pensamiento cuando intenté desarrollar una teoría de la extrañeza (Fremdheit) radical. En este artículo desarrollo los rasgos básicos de esta responsividad en la que están implicados los otros. Metodológicamente, me guío por una variante de la fenomenología responsiva que ha de entenderse como una fenomenología fundada en e…Read more
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    Experiencia Rota
    with Bernardo Ávalos
    Eikasia Revista de Filosofía 123 223-245. 2024.
    El presente artículo aborda la relación intrínseca entre experiencia, orden y ruptura desde una perspectiva fenomenológica. Su objetivo es trazar las líneas generales de una fenomenología de la experiencia rota que se remonta a acontecimientos pháticos que, al transgredir los límites del orden en el que tienen lugar, ponen en marcha la experiencia. La extrañeza inaprehensible que irrumpe aquí remite siempre a lo imposible. Esto no significa que no existan razones y causas, sino que nunca son suf…Read more
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    Werdegang und Wirkungsfelder der Phänomenologie
    Philosophische Rundschau 71 (2): 126-135. 2024.
    This voluminous handbook, compiled by three younger researchers, continues the pioneering work of the Alsatian émigré Herbert Spiegelberg on German soil. Transcending national and disciplinary boundaries, the phenomenological movement is presented in its most important historical stages and turning points and in its geographical diversity, oriented towards the things themselves newly discovered by Husserl, which are given a voice and a view in their own right. This opens up fields of activity ra…Read more
  • Merleau-ponty: Perception, structure, language: A collection of essays
    In John Sallis (ed.), , Humanities Press. pp. 21-38. 1981.
  • Chiasms: Merleau-ponty's notion of flesh
    In Fred Evans & Leonard Lawlor (eds.), , State University of New York Press. pp. 89-102. 2000.
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    La pregunta por lo extraño
    Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 32 85-98. 1998.
  • Phenomenology and Marxism
    with Jan M. Broekman and Ante Pazanin
    Studies in Soviet Thought 32 (3): 233-238. 1986.
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    The Birth of Ethos out of Pathos
    Critical Hermeneutics 8 (special). 2024.
    An ethical epoché is required to leave the terrain of a self-evident morality and question its origin. In particular, four fundamental motifs of the ethical dimension are identified: pathos, to be thematised as an alternative to the persistent activist unilateralism; response, which always involves body and soul; diastasis with its stumbles and subtractions; and finally coaffection, in which the social dimension of experience is announced. Ethical behaviour feeds on the magma of pathos, which in…Read more
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    The Body as Original Medium and Vehicle of Technique
    Critical Hermeneutics 8 (special). 2024.
    Living corporeity is the intermediate element between nature and culture, which must be thought of as a reciprocal interconnection, since as corporeal beings we always move on a threshold. In the reflection of the bodily self, a doubling between the living body as a functioning subject and as a material object is revealed; after all, even one's own body sometimes takes on the features of a foreign body, as is the case in the experience of illness. In the technical instrument, the body is prolong…Read more
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    Breakpoints of a Diachronic Experience
    Critical Hermeneutics 8 (special). 2024.
    Experience is investigated according to those breaking points where the unexpected surfaces and the surprise of the extraordinary and the alien breaks through. What happens is always in the postponement between pathos and response; this represents the fundamental agreement of a responsive phenomenology: it is never a quiet succession, but always something arriving too early or too late. Threshold experiences such as hesitation, delay, waiting, pausing, stumbling are investigated in this framewor…Read more