Phenomarxism: Ideology and Materialism in Critical and Political Phenomenology | ESOL edit
CFP for publication or other deadlineJanuary 31, 2027
Phenomarxism: Ideology and Materialism in Critical and Political Phenomenology
Puncta invites papers examining Marxist phenomenology, ideology, materialism, and contemporary critical and political phenomenology.
Puncta
“Phenomarxism: Ideology and Materialism in Critical and Political Phenomenology,”
Iaan Reynolds, Christian Lotz, and Marco Cavallaro
The special issue explores the historical and contemporary relationship between phenomenology and Marxist philosophy, with the aim of strengthening the historical grounding of critical and political phenomenology while developing new theoretical resources for contemporary debates.
The editors seek contributions that critically examine whether phenomenology can itself be understood, developed, or articulated as a political and critical position. Submissions should engage with contemporary theoretical debates and develop concepts through which critical and political phenomenology can address contemporary developments.
Topics of Interest
Possible topics include:
Class, class consciousness, and social structure in critical phenomenology
Phenomenology as a political intervention against reification and objectification
Lived experience as a critical response to scientific, capitalist, and colonial systems
Phenomenology, socialism, and communism
Embodiment and critiques of capitalist exploitation
The lived experience of sexism, racism, and class oppression
The political character of classical phenomenological methodology
The epoché as a potentially revolutionary act
Marxist social critique and phenomenological analyses of patriarchy, racism, and xenophobia
Phenomenology and critiques of bourgeois or idealistic philosophy
Phenomenological approaches to materialism
Phenomenological theories of ideological false consciousness
The relationship between ideology and its material base in phenomenological terms
The issue also welcomes work engaging with the history of Marxist phenomenology and figures and traditions such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Enzo Paci, Ágnes Heller, the Budapest School, and social reproduction theory.
When submitting, authors should include a note to the editors indicating that the manuscript is intended for inclusion in the Phenomarxism special issue.