• Language as Poeisis
    In Sarah K. Hansen (ed.), New forms of revolt: essays on Kristeva's intimate politics, Suny Press. pp. 129-153. 2012.
  • Book Reviews (review)
    with Derek K. Heyman, Thomas R. Flynn, and David Detmer
    Sartre Studies International 9 (2): 77-102. 2003.
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    Speaking subjects. Towards a rapprochement between phenomenology and structural linguistics
    Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 4 (2): 63-88. 2016.
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    Introduction
    with Eva-Maria Simms
    Janus Head 13 (1): 6-16. 2013.
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    Review of Oksala's 2016 Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations.
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    The Self, the Other, the Self as An/other
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 16 112-123. 1998.
    This article critically examines the way in which Sartre dealt with the problem of alterity in his early works, proposing that Sartre presented an unsatisfactory account of alterity in his first philosophical work entitled The Transcendence of the Ego, though his study of imagination offers ample opportunities to re-examine the question of alterity and to arrive at a more adequate formulation of the way in which the self relates to the other. I therefore begin by demonstrating that the Transcend…Read more
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    Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print
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    Seeing Faces: Sartre and Imitation Studies
    Sartre Studies International 13 (2): 27-46. 2007.
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    Persons, Pronouns, and Perspectives
    In Daniel D. Hutto & Matthew Ratcliffe (eds.), Folk Psychology Re-Assessed, Kluwer/springer Press. pp. 79--99. 2007.
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    Memory and subjectivity: Sartre in dialogue with Husserl
    Sartre Studies International 8 (2): 94-111. 2002.
    Memory is a privileged context for inquiry into subjective life; no wonder that the way philosophers theorize memory is indicative of their conception of subjectivity as a whole. In this essay, I turn to Sartre and Husserl with the aim of unveiling how their accounts of recollection resolve the question of identity and difference within the temporality of one's life. Tracing Sartre's arguments against Husserl's, as well as Husserl's and Sartre's own presentations of recollection, I inquire into …Read more
  •  154
    Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology
    Ohio University Press. 2009.
    Classical phenomenology -- The transcendental tradition -- The logical investigations of the I -- From the I to the ego -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Strawson on the primacy of personhood -- Wittgenstein on the lure of words -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Zahavi on transcendental subjectivity as intersubjectivity -- Contemporary arguments for the transcendental ego : Marbach, Soffer -- Schutz, Theunissen on social phenomenology -- Husserl's later thought -- The multidi…Read more
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    The Communicative Use of the Face
    Glimpse 4 69-72. 2003.
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    Riassunto: Dialogo al limite della fenomenologia
    Chiasmi International 11 156-156. 2009.
    In questo saggio sottolineo l’importanza di recuperare il fenomeno del linguaggio corrente e di tematizzare la dimensione comunicativa dell’esperienza nella ricerca fenomenologica. Più nello specifico, intendo affrontare criticamente l’attenzione che Derrida rivolge al problema del fonocentrismo in fenomenologia, che sembra aver semplicemente screditato ogni tentativo di affrontare il fenomeno della voce per paura di privilegiare la presenza e la soggettività atomistica. Mentre potrebbe essere v…Read more
  •  166
    Defining imagination: Sartre between Husserl and Janet
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (2): 133-153. 2005.
    The essay traces the double, phenomenological and psychological, background of Sartre’s theory of the imagination. Insofar as these two phenomenological and psychological currents are equally influential for Sartre’s theory of the imagination, his intellectual project is situated in an inter-disciplinary research area which combines the descriptive analyses of Edmund Husserl with the clinical reports and psychological theories of Pierre Janet. While Husserl provides the foundation for the prevai…Read more
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    Strange Life of a Sentence
    Philosophy Today 59 (2): 305-316. 2015.
    In this essay, I follow the lead of recent scholarship in Saussure linguistics and critically examine the Saussurean doctrine associated with the Course in General Linguistics, which later became a hallmark of structuralism. Specifically, I reconstruct the history of the concluding sentence in the Course which establishes the priority of la langue over everything deemed external to it. This line assumed the status of an oft-cited ‘famous formula’ and became a structuralist motto. The ‘famous for…Read more
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    Pictorial representation or subjective scenario? Sartre on imagination
    Sartre Studies International 7 (2): 87-111. 2001.
    The major thesis developed in Sartre's L'imaginaire is that all imaginary acts can be subsumed under the heading of one "image family" and, therefore, that imagination as a whole can be theorized in terms of pictorial representation. Yet this theory fails to meet the objective of Sartre's study, to demonstrate that imaginary activity is not a derivative of perception but an attitude with a character and dignity of its own. The subsidiary account of imagination in terms of neutralization of belie…Read more
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    I examine the phenomenological philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as possible responses to contemporary studies of interpersonal relatedness in cognitive science, especially the experimental studies of infant's imitating simple facial gestures of adults. I discuss the implications and the challenges raised by the experimental studies to the dominant phenomenological accounts of intersubjectivity, but also envision how phenomenology may help to interpret the findings about infantile imitati…Read more
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    In this essay I address Derrida’s influential readings of the Course in General Linguistics attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure in Of Grammatology and Glas. I complicate Derrida’s charge of phonocentrism, that is, the charge that Saussure privileges the medium of sound and/or speech as a site of unmediated signifying presence, by re-examining the relevant sections from the Course in light of the materials related to Saussure’s linguistics from the Nachlass, some of them recently discovered. I do…Read more
  •  484
    Stawarska considers the ambiguities surrounding the antagonism between the phenomenological and the structuralist traditions by pointing out that the supposed foundation of structuralism, the Course in General Linguistics, was ghostwritten posthumously by two editors who projected a dogmatic doctrine onto Saussure’s lectures, while the authentic materials related to Saussure’s linguistics are teeming with phenomenological references. She then narrows the focus to Merleau-Ponty’s engagement with …Read more
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    Résumé : Dialogue à la limite de la phénoménologie
    Chiasmi International 11 156-156. 2009.
    Dans ce travail, je souligne l’importance du phénomène de la parole vivante et de la dimension communicative de l’expérience dans la recherche phénoménologique. Spécifiquement, je considère de manière critique l’accusation de phonocentrisme adressée par Derrida à la phénoménologie, qui semble avoir discrédité toute tentative d’aborder le phénomène de la vocalité par peur de privilégier la présence et la subjectivité atomiste. Il est peut-être vrai que la phénoménologie classique de la conscience…Read more
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    Philosopher and Disspasionate Scientist
    Dialogue and Universalism 15 (1-2): 59-70. 2005.
    Philosophia means love of wisdom. If the way of access to wisdom is love, then the quest for wisdom does not appear as a purely cognitive enterprise but also and primarily as an affective one. Rather than reducing the one who searches for wisdom to a pure contemplative mind, it engages the entire person in the inquiry; the affective, and correlatively, sensitive and corporeal being of the self are put into play. Put simply and naïvely, one needs to be implicated in the philo-sophical quest with …Read more
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    Feeling good vibrations in dialogical relations
    Continental Philosophy Review 41 (2): 217-236. 2008.
    I engage phenomenological and empirical perspectives on dialogical relations in infancy in a mutually enlightening and challenging relation. On the one hand, the empirical contributions provide evidence for the primacy of first-to-second person interrelatedness in human sociality, as opposed to the claim of primary syncretism heralded by Merleau-Ponty, and also in distinction from the ego-alter ego model routinely used in phenomenology. On the other hand, phenomenological considerations regardin…Read more
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    In the prospectus for his later work pronounced in 1952, Merleau-Ponty announced that his move beyond the phenomenological to the ontological level of analysis is motivated by issues of sociality, notably communication with others.' I propose to interrogate this priority attributed by the author to this interpersonal bond in his reflections on corporeality in general, marking a departure from The Structure of Behavior and The Phenomenology of Perception, which privileged the starting point of co…Read more
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    Sartre on the Gaze and Surveillance Devices
    Glimpse 3 (1): 29-32. 2001.
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    Pictorial Representation or Subjective Scenario? Sartre on Imagination
    Sartre Studies International 7 87-111. 2001.
    The major thesis developed in Sartre's L'imaginaire is that all imaginary acts can be subsumed under the heading of one "image family" and, therefore, that imagination as a whole can be theorized in terms of pictorial representation. Yet this theory fails to meet the objective of Sartre's study, to demonstrate that imaginary activity is not a derivative of perception but an attitude with a character and dignity of its own. The subsidiary account of imagination in terms of neutralization of belie…Read more
  •  376
    Dialogue at the Limit of Phenomenology
    Chiasmi International 11 145-156. 2009.
    In this essay I highlight the importance of the phenomenon of living speech and the communicative dimension of experience in phenomenological research. Specifically, I critically consider the charge of phonocentrism raised by Derrida to phenomenology which appears to have discredited any attempt to approach the phenomenon of vocality for fear of falling back into a metaphysics of presence and adopting the stance of atomistic subjectivity. It may be true that classical phenomenology of consciousn…Read more
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    Stawarska considers the ambiguities surrounding the antagonism between the phenomenological and the structuralist traditions by pointing out that the supposed foundation of structuralism, the Course in General Linguistics, was ghostwritten posthumously by two editors who projected a dogmatic doctrine onto Saussure’s lectures, while the authentic materials related to Saussure’s linguistics are teeming with phenomenological references. She then narrows the focus to Merleau-Ponty’s engagement with …Read more
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    Seeing Faces Sartre and Imitation Studies
    Sartre Studies International 13 2-46. 2007.
    This article discusses experimental studies of facial imitation in infants in the light of Sartre's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theories of embodiment. I argue that both Sartre's account of the gaze of the other and Merleau-Ponty's account of the reversibility of the flesh provide a fertile ground for interpreting the data demonstrating that very young infants can imitate facial expressions of adults. Sartre's and Merleau-Ponty's accounts of embodiment offer, in my view, a desirable alt…Read more