Christian Ferencz-Flatz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4427776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Ferencz-Flatz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferencz-Flatz |
| SIGNATURE | FERENCZ-FLATZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bucharest |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1277-2839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From polemics to dialogue: Redrawing genre boundaries in eastern European philosophy during state socialism
This paper addresses the proliferation of “philosophical dialogues” as a genre in Eastern European state socialist philosophy. Focusing on Romania and Hungary, we contextualize this genre by referring to the increased preoccupation with dialogue manifested in the local philosophy after the 1960s, especially stressing the close contacts with Existentialism and its own production of philosophical dialogues. Subsequently, we look at the confluence b…
Teaching Kant in early socialist Romania
During the 1950s and ’60s, when Kant’s works were neither translated nor publicly accessible in socialist Romania, his philosophy reached students and readers through mediated instruction—public debates, university lectures, high school courses, and educational television programs. This paper explores how Kant was taught during the early decades of Romanian communism, particularly focusing on the renewed pedagogical and scholarly interest in the …
Communist Cyberaesthetics: Theories of Computer Assisted Art and Criticism in Socialist Romania
From the early 1960s, cybernetics became a buzzword in the Soviet space, progressively gaining traction as the defining term for future developments in the planned economy. Recent studies reveal how cybernetics played a pivotal role in shaping a new kind of cyberspeak in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries during the post-Stalinist period. While cultural debates in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fostered renewed discussions on modernis…
The Limits to Owning One’s Behavior: Husserl’s Phenomenology of Involuntary Action
This paper focuses on a lesser-known aspect of Husserl’s theory of action, namely his understanding of “involuntary behavior,” as developed especially in the recently published manuscripts gathered in Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins. Specifically, I follow the arguments leading Husserl in these manuscripts to make the peculiar claim that all involuntary behaviors can be appropriated and converted into voluntary action. In reflecting upon th…
Critical Theory and Phenomenology: Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives
From fertile hostility to stale benevolence: Guest editors’ introduction
The Eidetics of the Unimaginable. What a Phenomenologist can Learn from Ethnomethodology
Screened Intercorporeality. Reflections on Gestures in Videoconferences
This article brings a phenomenological perspective to the question of how bodily and inter-bodily experience is involved in interacting via audio-visual media like videoconferencing platforms. Contemporary discussions in interaction studies point to a certain suspension of bodily involvement in these mediated interactions, which leads to a visible loss of function in the case of gestures. Such observations have led phenomenologists to voice conce…
Critical Theory and Phenomenology: Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives
Gesten als Okkasionelle Bedeutungserfüllungen
The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud
Encounters: East/West dialogs on existence
The article discusses the historical background and transnational context of the dialogue between East-European communist philosophy and Western existentialism. It does so by first outlining the exchanges between Lukács, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Subsequently three major forums of East–West philosophical dialogue are surveyed, that took place during the 1960s: the ‘Morals and Society’ colloquium, organiz…
Estetica vieții cotidiene în filozofia RSR
The present paper analyses the emergence of a novel field of interest in the philosophical aesthetics of the 1960s in Romania: the aesthetics of everyday life. As such, it first starts by drawing out an overview of the aesthetic discussions in 1950s Romania by closely reading several articles from the main philosophical journal of the period: Cercetări filozofice. In this regard, I focus on two main aspects, namely the theory of reflection, which…
Eidetic intuition as physiognomics: Rethinking Adorno’s phenomenological heritage
An involuntary phenomenologist. The case of Alexandru Dragomir
Humanizing the Animal, Animalizing the Human: Husserl on Pets
The element of intersubjectivity. Heidegger’s early conception of empathy
Objects with a past: Husserl on “ad-memorizing apperceptions”
Encounters: East/West dialogs on existence
The article discusses the historical background and transnational context of the dialogue between East-European communist philosophy and Western existentialism. It does so by first outlining the exchanges between Lukács, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Subsequently three major forums of East–West philosophical dialogue are surveyed, that took place during the 1960s: the ‘Morals and Society’ colloquium, organiz…
Communist Cyberaesthetics: Theories of Computer Assisted Art and Criticism in Socialist Romania
From the early 1960s, cybernetics became a buzzword in the Soviet space, progressively gaining traction as the defining term for future developments in the planned economy. Recent studies reveal how cybernetics played a pivotal role in shaping a new kind of cyberspeak in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries during the post-Stalinist period. While cultural debates in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fostered renewed discussions on modernis…
Teaching Kant in early socialist Romania
During the 1950s and ’60s, when Kant’s works were neither translated nor publicly accessible in socialist Romania, his philosophy reached students and readers through mediated instruction—public debates, university lectures, high school courses, and educational television programs. This paper explores how Kant was taught during the early decades of Romanian communism, particularly focusing on the renewed pedagogical and scholarly interest in the …
The Eidetics of the Unimaginable. What a Phenomenologist can Learn from Ethnomethodology
Objects with a past: Husserl on “ad-memorizing apperceptions”
The element of intersubjectivity. Heidegger’s early conception of empathy
An involuntary phenomenologist. The case of Alexandru Dragomir
Humanizing the Animal, Animalizing the Human: Husserl on Pets
Eidetic intuition as physiognomics: Rethinking Adorno’s phenomenological heritage
Estetica vieții cotidiene în filozofia RSR
The present paper analyses the emergence of a novel field of interest in the philosophical aesthetics of the 1960s in Romania: the aesthetics of everyday life. As such, it first starts by drawing out an overview of the aesthetic discussions in 1950s Romania by closely reading several articles from the main philosophical journal of the period: Cercetări filozofice. In this regard, I focus on two main aspects, namely the theory of reflection, which…
Gesten als Okkasionelle Bedeutungserfüllungen
The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud
Encounters: East/West dialogs on existence
The article discusses the historical background and transnational context of the dialogue between East-European communist philosophy and Western existentialism. It does so by first outlining the exchanges between Lukács, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Subsequently three major forums of East–West philosophical dialogue are surveyed, that took place during the 1960s: the ‘Morals and Society’ colloquium, organiz…
Critical Theory and Phenomenology: Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives
From fertile hostility to stale benevolence: Guest editors’ introduction
The Eidetics of the Unimaginable. What a Phenomenologist can Learn from Ethnomethodology
Screened Intercorporeality. Reflections on Gestures in Videoconferences
This article brings a phenomenological perspective to the question of how bodily and inter-bodily experience is involved in interacting via audio-visual media like videoconferencing platforms. Contemporary discussions in interaction studies point to a certain suspension of bodily involvement in these mediated interactions, which leads to a visible loss of function in the case of gestures. Such observations have led phenomenologists to voice conce…
Critical Theory and Phenomenology: Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives
The Limits to Owning One’s Behavior: Husserl’s Phenomenology of Involuntary Action
This paper focuses on a lesser-known aspect of Husserl’s theory of action, namely his understanding of “involuntary behavior,” as developed especially in the recently published manuscripts gathered in Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins. Specifically, I follow the arguments leading Husserl in these manuscripts to make the peculiar claim that all involuntary behaviors can be appropriated and converted into voluntary action. In reflecting upon th…
From polemics to dialogue: Redrawing genre boundaries in eastern European philosophy during state socialism
This paper addresses the proliferation of “philosophical dialogues” as a genre in Eastern European state socialist philosophy. Focusing on Romania and Hungary, we contextualize this genre by referring to the increased preoccupation with dialogue manifested in the local philosophy after the 1960s, especially stressing the close contacts with Existentialism and its own production of philosophical dialogues. Subsequently, we look at the confluence b…
Teaching Kant in early socialist Romania
During the 1950s and ’60s, when Kant’s works were neither translated nor publicly accessible in socialist Romania, his philosophy reached students and readers through mediated instruction—public debates, university lectures, high school courses, and educational television programs. This paper explores how Kant was taught during the early decades of Romanian communism, particularly focusing on the renewed pedagogical and scholarly interest in the …
Communist Cyberaesthetics: Theories of Computer Assisted Art and Criticism in Socialist Romania
From the early 1960s, cybernetics became a buzzword in the Soviet space, progressively gaining traction as the defining term for future developments in the planned economy. Recent studies reveal how cybernetics played a pivotal role in shaping a new kind of cyberspeak in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries during the post-Stalinist period. While cultural debates in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fostered renewed discussions on modernis…
Epistemology (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (8 works) · Political philosophy (8 works) · Politics (8 works)