Call for Papers: Monothematic Issues for 2025
Issue 10 (December 2024): Socio-political Resilience vis-à-vis the Contemporary World Crises
Guest editors: Alice KOUBOVÁ (Institute of Philosophy CAS, Prague, Czech Republic), Ondřej LÁNSKÝ (Institute of Philosophy CAS, Prague, Czech Republic)
Resilience thinking and theory can be conceptualized in several ways. One is to work with it as a fashionable concept but essentially a mirror term for other concepts and theories (for example, stability, resistance, plasticity). The other is to describe resilience as a concept whose use disguises neoliberal policies and ideology. A third option is to map resilience as a determinant of a conceptual field that attempts to capture a significant dimension of the efforts in current societies, communities, and individuals to overcome various types of crises. This issue proposes conceptualizing resilience in this third context as a new relationship between humans and their environment in multiple forms and contexts. Thus, this monothematic issue aims to explore and show fundamental aspects of general resilience theory while focusing on modern society's different layers of resilience that can be considered crucial to its functioning. The challenges associated mainly with climate change, erosion of democracy, and health crisis caused by COVID-19 put the classical institutions of modernity under pressure. Resilience thinking helps to understand these challenges. The main focus of the issue will be on social and political resilience.
Send submissions to: alicekoubova@seznam.cz; lansky@flu.cas.cz
Call for Papers deadline: August 19, 2024
Guidelines for authors
Issue 1 (February 2025): Philosophy, Politics and Religion: Continuities and Ruptures with Hegelianism
Guest editor: Patricia DIP (National University of General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Reflection on Hegelian philosophy produced a split between the so-called “Old Hegelians” (Rosenkranz, Haym, Erdmann, Fischer), characterized by their interest in preserving Hegel's historical legacy, and the “Young Hegelians” or “Left Hegelians” (Feuerbach, Ruge, Marx, Stirner, Bauer, Kierkegaard), who tended to overcome Hegelianism. In spite of this division, both groups proposed discussions of a political character with a religious language. It seems important to us to take up again the conceptions of politics and religion that were debated in the 19th century and that have also contributed to different lines of thought in the 20th century, such as, for example, Marxism and psychoanalysis, in order to determine continuities and ruptures with the approaches originated in the discussion with the cultural heritage of Hegelianism.
Send submissions to: patriciadip@hotmail.com
Call for Papers deadline: September 15, 2024
Guidelines for authors
Issue 3, May 2025: The Megarian School
Guest Editor: Vladislav Suvák (University of Presov)
The proposed monothematic block follows on from the previous thematic issues of Filozofia dedicated to Socratic schools and the so-called Socratici minori. Filozofia 3/2022 has focused on Aristippus of Cyrene and the Socratic form of hedonism supported by Cyrenaic epistemology. Filozofia 1/2019 was devoted to ancient Cynicism and its place in Western thought. Filozofia 1/2019 dealt with Aeschines of Sphettus and his portrayal of Socratic love and education. Filozofia 3/2011 has focused on Antisthenes and his Cynic followers. Following on from these monothematic numbers, we would like to create a block on the Megarian school of the Socratics, which had a great influence on ancient debates on ethics and logic.
Send submissions to: vladislav.suvak@unipo.sk
Call for papers deadline: October 31, 2024
Issue 4, September 2025: Socrates in the 20th Century
Guest Editors: Jozef Majerník (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences), Refik Güremen (Middle East Technical University)
More than anyone else, Socrates is the pivotal figure of the Western philosophical tradition until today. The goal of this special issue will be to provide a variety of perspectives on the singular phenomenon of Socrates in the philosophic thought of 20th century. We would thereby like to approach a synoptic view of how his legacy was received on the background of the two world wars and totalitarian regimes. At the same time, we hope to thereby show the continuing relevance and intellectual force of Socratic living and thinking, especially in its ethical and political modalities. We are looking for papers on the appropriations of Socrates and of the Socratic model especially in the works of thinkers like Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss, Jacob Klein, Jan Patočka, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Gerhard Krüger, Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault, Paul Tillich, or Cornelius Castoriadis. Other topics of interest include: The meaning of Socrates’ “second sailing” (Phaedo 99d) The Socratic method and/or dialectics ‘Socratic intellectualism’ and its critics Socratic philosophizing as a way of life The political heritage of Socrates and its contemporary practical applications
Send submissions to: jozef.majernik@savba.sk
Call for papers deadline: April 2, 2025