Cristian Ciocan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristian Ciocan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciocan |
| SIGNATURE | CIOCAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bucharest |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5372-6409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tiredness and Affectivity
A Brief Phenomenology of Fatigue
In this essay, Jean-Yves Lacoste examines the often-overlooked phenomenon of fatigue from a phenomenological perspective, emphasizing its distinctiveness from other states such as suffering and joy. Lacoste argues that fatigue, while a daily experience, reveals a unique mode of being-in-the-world that is not adequately captured by the notion of “everydayness” in a phenomenological sense. He explores how fatigue disrupts conventional temporalities…
The phenomenology of Fatigue
This article develops a phenomenological account of fatigue as an existential phenomenon rooted in the dynamics of human effort and temporality. Rather than treating fatigue as a medical or psychological condition, the analysis focuses on how it discloses the limits of our capacity to act and the layered temporality of lived experience. Drawing on the work of Jean-Louis Chrétien, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Levinas, fatigue is understood as a…
Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand
This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function of the hand in deeper existential structures: in Being and Time , the hands are oriented by spatiality a…
Embodiment and Violence
In this paper, I explore the bodily constitution of violence from a phenomenological perspective, contrasting the directly lived experience of violence with imagistic violence. The analysis involves examining one’s own embodiment from the first-person perspective in two distinct situations: as the agent of violence, anchored in one’s own “I can”, and as a passive victim, marked by vulnerability and helplessness. Each situation reveals specific pa…
The Chiro-Phenomenology of Vilém Flusser
Vilém Flusser’s chiro-phenomenology fills an essential gap in scholarship by expanding and reinterpreting the ontological significance of gestures, focusing on the hand as a crucial site for understanding the embodied nature of human existence. This article explores Flusser’s unique contribution to the phenomenology of the hand, highlighting why his approach is necessary for a fuller understanding of gesture and embodiment. I begin by emphasizing…
Violence and the Limits of Experience
The aim of this article is to explore the question of the limits of experience in light of the phenomenology of violence. I begin by emphasizing the specificity of the phenomenological concept of pre-theoretical experience, in contrast with the traditional concept of experience dominated by theoretical and epistemological motives. Consequently, I underscore that violence can be phenomenologically understood only as a lived experience, given in th…
Phenomenology of Gesture Between Heidegger and Flusser
In this article, I discuss two approaches to the phenomenon of gesture, constituted by the existential dimension of embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and language: while Martin Heidegger states that human bodily movement as a whole should be understood as gesture in contrast to the spatial movement of things, Vilém Flusser integrates under this notion a multitude of human practices and activities that common sense hesitates to call gest…
Violence and image
Towards a Multi-modal Phenomenological Approach of Violence
Violence and Affectivity
Embodiment and Animality
The aim of this article is to examine the problematic frontier that separates the phenomenology of the body and the phenomenology of animality. The main difficulty is to differentiate phenomenologically not only between embodiment and animality, but also between specifically human embodied experience and what is accessible to us through empathy in relation to the corporeality of the animal. I will tackle these questions by considering relevant te…
Husserl’s Phenomenology of Animality and the Paradoxes of Normality
Heidegger’s phenomenology of embodiment in the Zollikon Seminars
Heidegger et le problème de la mort
Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom
(2010). Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 41, Communicating Passions: Boredom, Love & Shame, pp. 64-77
Le problème de la mort dans lesBeiträge zur Philosophie(1936-1939)
Ciocan Cristian. Le problème de la mort dans les Beiträge zur Philosophie (1936-1939). In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 108, n°2, 2010. pp. 313-333
Mort et vérité
Husserl’s Phenomenology of Animality and the Paradoxes of Normality
Embodiment and Animality
The aim of this article is to examine the problematic frontier that separates the phenomenology of the body and the phenomenology of animality. The main difficulty is to differentiate phenomenologically not only between embodiment and animality, but also between specifically human embodied experience and what is accessible to us through empathy in relation to the corporeality of the animal. I will tackle these questions by considering relevant te…
Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom
(2010). Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 41, Communicating Passions: Boredom, Love & Shame, pp. 64-77
Violence and the Limits of Experience
The aim of this article is to explore the question of the limits of experience in light of the phenomenology of violence. I begin by emphasizing the specificity of the phenomenological concept of pre-theoretical experience, in contrast with the traditional concept of experience dominated by theoretical and epistemological motives. Consequently, I underscore that violence can be phenomenologically understood only as a lived experience, given in th…
Phenomenology of Gesture Between Heidegger and Flusser
In this article, I discuss two approaches to the phenomenon of gesture, constituted by the existential dimension of embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and language: while Martin Heidegger states that human bodily movement as a whole should be understood as gesture in contrast to the spatial movement of things, Vilém Flusser integrates under this notion a multitude of human practices and activities that common sense hesitates to call gest…
Towards a Multi-modal Phenomenological Approach of Violence
Violence and Affectivity
Heidegger et le problème de la mort
Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom
(2010). Heidegger and the Problem of Boredom. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 41, Communicating Passions: Boredom, Love & Shame, pp. 64-77
Le problème de la mort dans lesBeiträge zur Philosophie(1936-1939)
Ciocan Cristian. Le problème de la mort dans les Beiträge zur Philosophie (1936-1939). In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 108, n°2, 2010. pp. 313-333
Mort et vérité
Heidegger et le problème de la mort
Heidegger’s phenomenology of embodiment in the Zollikon Seminars
Husserl’s Phenomenology of Animality and the Paradoxes of Normality
Embodiment and Animality
The aim of this article is to examine the problematic frontier that separates the phenomenology of the body and the phenomenology of animality. The main difficulty is to differentiate phenomenologically not only between embodiment and animality, but also between specifically human embodied experience and what is accessible to us through empathy in relation to the corporeality of the animal. I will tackle these questions by considering relevant te…
Towards a Multi-modal Phenomenological Approach of Violence
Violence and Affectivity
Violence and image
Phenomenology of Gesture Between Heidegger and Flusser
In this article, I discuss two approaches to the phenomenon of gesture, constituted by the existential dimension of embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and language: while Martin Heidegger states that human bodily movement as a whole should be understood as gesture in contrast to the spatial movement of things, Vilém Flusser integrates under this notion a multitude of human practices and activities that common sense hesitates to call gest…
The Chiro-Phenomenology of Vilém Flusser
Vilém Flusser’s chiro-phenomenology fills an essential gap in scholarship by expanding and reinterpreting the ontological significance of gestures, focusing on the hand as a crucial site for understanding the embodied nature of human existence. This article explores Flusser’s unique contribution to the phenomenology of the hand, highlighting why his approach is necessary for a fuller understanding of gesture and embodiment. I begin by emphasizing…
Violence and the Limits of Experience
The aim of this article is to explore the question of the limits of experience in light of the phenomenology of violence. I begin by emphasizing the specificity of the phenomenological concept of pre-theoretical experience, in contrast with the traditional concept of experience dominated by theoretical and epistemological motives. Consequently, I underscore that violence can be phenomenologically understood only as a lived experience, given in th…
The phenomenology of Fatigue
This article develops a phenomenological account of fatigue as an existential phenomenon rooted in the dynamics of human effort and temporality. Rather than treating fatigue as a medical or psychological condition, the analysis focuses on how it discloses the limits of our capacity to act and the layered temporality of lived experience. Drawing on the work of Jean-Louis Chrétien, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and Emmanuel Levinas, fatigue is understood as a…
Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand
This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function of the hand in deeper existential structures: in Being and Time , the hands are oriented by spatiality a…
Embodiment and Violence
In this paper, I explore the bodily constitution of violence from a phenomenological perspective, contrasting the directly lived experience of violence with imagistic violence. The analysis involves examining one’s own embodiment from the first-person perspective in two distinct situations: as the agent of violence, anchored in one’s own “I can”, and as a passive victim, marked by vulnerability and helplessness. Each situation reveals specific pa…
Tiredness and Affectivity
A Brief Phenomenology of Fatigue
In this essay, Jean-Yves Lacoste examines the often-overlooked phenomenon of fatigue from a phenomenological perspective, emphasizing its distinctiveness from other states such as suffering and joy. Lacoste argues that fatigue, while a daily experience, reveals a unique mode of being-in-the-world that is not adequately captured by the notion of “everydayness” in a phenomenological sense. He explores how fatigue disrupts conventional temporalities…
Philosophy (13 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (8 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Phenomenon (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy (5 works)