Phenomenology of Testimony

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is professor of metaphysics at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published on continental philosophy with an emphasis on hermeneutic phenomenology, including The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony (2020).Paul Marinescu is a researcher at the “Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy, Romania. He coedited several journal issues and collective volumes devoted to the phenomenology of history, memory, violence, and testimony, including “The Articulation of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics in Paul Ricœur” (2023).

• ContentsNotes on EditorsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: on the Stakes of a Phenomenology of TestimonyGert-Jan van der Heiden and Paul Marinescu1 The Temporality of WitnessingCristian Ciocan2 A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Witnessing and Testimony: on Being-There-With and Being-Gathered-AroundGert-Jan van der Heiden3 The Experience of Testimony: from the Individual to the CollectivePaul Marinescu4 Portrait Painting, Photography, and the Subliminal Testimony of the Environing Life-WorldJeffrey Andrew Barash5 Testimony as Articulation of Natality: an Arendtian Approach to Bearing WitnessIleana Borţun6 Arendt’s Phenomenology of IdentityAoife McInerney7 Summoning Witnesses: Arendt’s Practice of Quoting in Her Last and Unfinished Book Project, The Life of the MindWout Cornelissen8 Testimony of an Exile from Language within Language—or How to Read Genet with(out) SartreDorothée Legrand9 Testimonial Literature and the Meaning of the Past: the “Other” Narratives of the Gulag in Women’s MemoirsLovisa Andén10 Witnesses of Fake HistoryRoland Breeur11 Topical Issues in Testimony: Literature, Digital Communication, and EcologyJean-Philippe PierronIndex