About Puncta
Puncta is an open-access, peer-reviewed philosophical journal established with the specific intention of redirecting phenomenological intentionality. It is our belief that phenomenology is not a mere descriptive practice, but an enactment of critique, that is, an ongoing process of revealing and interrogating the concrete conditions, institutions, and assumptions that structure lived experience, phenomenological inquiry, and thinking. We invite submissions that engage the critical turn of phenomenology via analyses of socio-political phenomena, reflections on the limits and challenges of phenomenological inquiry, or by attending to the history of philosophy, either through its silences or its canonical figures. Critical phenomenology aims to open up a more focused area of discourse that the works of those such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, and, more recently, Lisa Guenther, Sarah Ahmed, Alia Al-Saji, and Mariana Ortega have opened up through their commitments to an engaged phenomenology. We invite scholars to draw both on classical and contemporary phenomenology in order to join our efforts of broadening the scope and import of phenomenological research.
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Announcements
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2024-07-09
Volume 7 Issue 1, "Fits and Misfits," Published
Puncta has published a new June 2024 issue, "Fits and Misfits," guest edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Gail Weiss. We have also updated our mailing list, which may be signed up for with this link.
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2024-01-01
Puncta's General Issue Vol. 6 No. 1
Puncta's General Issue Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023) is now available! The issue features articles by Megan Burke, Shannon Hoff, and Molly Kelly's book review of Neal deRoo's The Political Logic of Experience. It can be accessed here: https://puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/puncta/issue/view/216.
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2024-01-01
Special Issue: "Phenomenology and Critique"
Puncta's latest Special Issue, "Phenomenology and Critique," edited by Daphne Pons, Andrew Krema, Johanna Oksala, is now out! The special issue takes up the very timely question of the method of critical phenomenology.
Volume 7, No. 1Fits and Misfits
Issue description
The special issue of Puncta entitled "Fits and Misfits" was guest edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Gail Weiss.