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In memoriam : Thomas De Koninck (1934-2026)

Luc Langlois

Liminaire

Cristian Ciocan and Natalie Depraz

Les sensations affectives sont-elles intentionnelles ? Plaisir et déplaisir chez Brentano et Husserl

Maria Gyemant
Pleasure and pain : are they sensory data or affective acts ? Called alternatively “affective sensations” (Gefühlsempfindungen) or “sensory feelings” (sinnliche Gefühle), these lived experiences become problematic as soon as phenomenology distinguishes between intentional affectivity and sub-intentional sensation. Are pleasure and pain intentional or not ? How should we describe their relation to the object that causes them and the experiencing subject ? A thorough examination of Brentano’s and Husserl’s answers to these questions will allow us to better understand their respective theories of affectivity as well as their different use of the concept of intentionality.

La joie partagée (Mitfreude) : accordage affectif et travail émotionnel

Claudia Serban
Since the seminal works of Scheler and Husserl, the phenomenology of emotions has taken a close interest in the interpersonal dimension of feeling and has emphasized that affectivity is one of the original modalities of our relationship to others. Considered in this intersubjective dimension, feeling appears as a co-feeling or a feeling-with (Mitgefühl, in Scheler’s language — term that has been translated as sympathy). By extending these classic analyses, we propose to show that this interaffectivity involves not only an affection and a receptivity to the other, but also a considerable part of emotional effort. We propose to describe this dimension of emotional agency by highlighting two complementary conceptual tools : the notion of affect attunement, stemming from psychoanalytic-oriented child psychiatry developed by Daniel Stern, and that of emotional work, derived from the sociology of emotions developed by Arlie Russell Hochschild. The guiding thread of our reflection is provided by a phenomenological analysis of the affective situation of shared joy (Mitfreude) between parents and children.

Que ressent-on lorsqu’on ne ressent rien ? Pour une reprise de la dynamique affective dans la psychose

Cătălina Condruz
The question of affectivity in the field of psychopathology has always been positioned at the crossroads of several disciplines. This positioning is explained by the complexity it entails — a complexity that cannot be unraveled without deconstructing each element and continually examining it from new perspectives. Nonetheless, the phenomenological approach — as demonstrated by a rich tradition of phenomenological psychopathology — proves particularly relevant for addressing this subject. In this article, we propose a phenomenological analysis of the affective dynamics in psychosis. To this end, we draw on certain fundamental notions from Husserlian phenomenology and Daniel Stern’s developmental psychology to develop a detailed and nuanced description of affectivity. With this conceptual foundation, we will examine both well-documented clinical cases from the specialized literature and micro-phenomenological interviews we have recently conducted with individuals experiencing psychosis. This work aims to shed light on the multiple facets of psychotic lived experience.

Le fondement affectif commun de la sensibilité et de l’entendement : une convergence entre le dernier Merleau-Ponty et Patočka

Dragos Duicu
In the last part of his work, Merleau-Ponty forges a new conceptuality that would account for the plasticity of our linguistic meanings and for their belonging to profound ontological kinships, which he thematizes using the concepts of “rayons” or “dimensions du monde.” In another research context, inspired by Patočka’s uncovering of the “fundamental form of all experience,” the fundamental structure of the ego’s interpellation by the world could be identified with the “original language” obeyed not only by our understanding and use of speech, but also by our perception. Our aim in what follows will simply be to bring the syllogism to a close by holding these two premises together in a single line of reasoning, and to propose the equivalence between what Merleau-Ponty calls “rayons” or dimensions of the world and the great fields of resemblance (hospitable-inhospitable) thematized by Patočka. In this way, we hope to highlight the common affective origin of perception and understanding in the orientation of the existence interpellated by the world, an orientation according to the great fundamental proto-affective fields (good-evil, hospitable-inhospitable).

La théorie patočkienne des trois mouvements de l’existence humaine et la question de l’affectivité

Ovidiu Stanciu
One of the major innovations introduced by Patočka into the conceptual landscape of phenomenology consists in the theory of the three movements of human existence, through which he seeks to provide a fresh understanding of subjectivity. In the context of elaborating this doctrine, he proposes a new elucidation of the status of affectivity. Indeed, insofar as each movement represents a modulation of the openness to the world specific to existence, and insofar as every manifestation of human life is imbued with an affective atmosphere, the distinction between the three movements of existence seems to provide the guiding thread for systematically mapping the domain of affectivity. However, in most of his developments on this question, Patočka limits the scope of affectivity to the sphere of the first movement of existence. My approach will be guided by two questions. First, I wish to elucidate the reasons that led Patočka to advance such a description of affectivity and to establish an intimate link between the affective sphere and the process of anchoring in the world characteristic of the first movement. Secondly, I will examine whether the scope of affective life extends beyond this relationship of connivance or belonging to the world and, in particular, I will scrutinize the possibility of detecting figures or variations of affectivity that determine the second and third movements of existence.

The Experience of Being: Toward an Affective Reduction in Martin Heidegger

Chris Octavian Ioniță
In this article, I intend to address what Heidegger repeatedly names — without fully thematizing — Erfahrung, which I read here in connection with the Erlebnis of the phenomenological tradition and thus in continuity with a philosophical project aimed at returning to the “things themselves.” More precisely, however, I argue that this encounter with things (Dinge), rather than with their representations (Gegenstände, Vorstellungen), while reducing to the immanence of experience those objects that would otherwise transcend it, does not amount to a transcendental reduction but instead proceeds from an affective one. Namely, it is the process of appropriation and transformation that, pivoting on our attunement (Stimmung) to being itself, brings both us and things back to the “da” of our Da-sein, wherein phenomenality eventuates (ereignen).

L’homme errant comme une oiselle : étude de Proverbes 27,8

Jean-Jacques Lavoie
Proverbs 27:8 is a passage that has not yet received sufficient attention from scholars, despite having given rise to numerous — and at times conflicting — interpretations. To grasp the full meaning of this proverb, the author offers his own translation of both the Hebrew text and the Septuagint, highlighting the many discrepancies between the two versions. He then defines the pericope to which verse 8 belongs, arguing that the proverb should be understood as a self-contained micro-narrative, independent of its immediate context. Finally, through a philological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of the Hebrew text, he presents five distinct, yet complementary, interpretations.

Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, Un chemin vers le bonheur / Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, Un chemin vers le bonheur. Les béatitudes évangéliques et la béatitude comme la vision de Dieu, préface et édition critique du texte inédit par Luc-Thomas Somme, Fribourg, Academic Press, 2025, 399 p.

Louis Brunet

Alain Bachand, Les fondements de la morale / Alain Bachand, Les fondements de la morale. Une analyse émotiviste, Paris, L’Harmattan (coll. « Ouverture philosophique »), 2025, 108 p.

Célestin Delanga

Caroline Blyth, Chris Greenough, ed., Sexualities in the Bible and its Reception. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney, T&T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing (coll. « T&T Clark Handbook »), 2026, xviii-411 p.

Sébastien Doane

T. Christopher Hoklotubbe, H. Daniel Zacharias, Reading the Bible on Turtle Island : An Invitation to North American Indigenous Interpretation. Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press Academic, 2025, 222 p.

Sébastien Doane

Louise J. Lawrence, Peter-Ben Smit, Hannah M. Strømmen, Charlene van der Walt, ed., Challenging Contextuality : Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context. New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, x-416 p.

Sébastien Doane

Yves Meessen, Théophanie et phénoménologie. Préface de Pierre-Marie Beaude. Genève, Ad Solem (coll. « Théologie »), 2026, 320 p.

Anthony Masquelier

Gerd Schwerhoff, Dieux maudits. L’histoire du blasphème. Traduit de l’allemand par Anne-Sophie Anglaret, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme (coll. « Bibliothèque allemande »), 2024, 443 p.

Valentin Potier

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