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Puncta

 

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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Volume 7, No. 1Fits and Misfits

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The special issue of Puncta entitled "Fits and Misfits" was guest edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Gail Weiss.

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Volume 6, No. 2Phenomenology and Critique

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Introduction

Volume 6, No. 1General Issue 2023

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Volume 5, No. 5General Issue 2022

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Volume 5, No. 4Critical Phenomenology, Racial Justice, and Radical Imagination

Volume 5, No. 3The Critical Phenomenology of Borders and Migration

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Volume 5, No. 2Dwelling in the Contemporary Condition

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Volume 5, No. 1Pandemic Politics and Phenomenology

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Volume 4, No. 2Critical Phenomenology at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum

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Volume 4, No. 1General Issue 2021

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Volume 3, No. 2Critically sick: New phenomenologies of illness, madness, and disability

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Volume 3, No. 1General Issue 2020

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Volume 2, No. 1General Issue 2019

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Volume 1, No. 1General Issue 2018

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