doc. Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.

• Email: daniele.desantis@ff.cuni.cz
• Phone: (+420) 221619223

Address

Department of Arts and Religious Studies
Místnost č. 223

Office Hours

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Research Interests

• Husserl, J. Derrida, Early Phenomenology and the European Phenomenological Tradition, Kant and the Tradition of Transcendental Philosophy, Lotze and Late German Idealism, Phenomenology and Platonism, The Pittsburgh School

Biographical Notes

• Daniele De Santis graduated in philosophy from the University of Rome I “Sapienza”, and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Rome II “Tor Vergata”
• He held a teaching position in the USA (Seattle University) for five years (2012-2017)
• Since 2013 he is one of the co-founders and main organizers of the Venice Summer School in Phenomenology (https://www.phenomenologyinvenice.com/)
• He joined the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Charles University in 2018
• Associate Editor of the Journal The Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (Routledge)

Awards and Fellowships

• Recipient of the 2015-2016 Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture Faculty Research Grant (Seattle University): “Eternal Being, Personhood and Human Action in the Philosophy of Edith Stein” (12 months)
• Awarded with the 2018 CARP Directors’ Memorial Prize in Honor of José Huertas-Jourda for the best paper presented at the 2018 edition of the “Husserl Circle” (Mexico City). Title of the Paper: “The Phenomenologist & the Reformer: On Husserl’s Socrates”
• Member of the Research Project “Intentionality and Person in Medieval Philosophy and Phenomenology” (Czech Science Foundation, GAČR 21-08256S) (PA: A. Tropia)
• Co-coordinator of the project “Nietzsche and the Good Europeans” (Italian Institute for German Studies, Rome and the University of Pisa): https://spiritomediterraneo.com/

Publikace

Authored volumes and editions

• De Santis, D. (Ed). Di Idee ed essenze. Un dibattito su fenomenologia e ontologia. Mimesis 2014
• De Santis, D., Trizio, E. (eds). Edmund Husserl between Platonism and Aristotelianism. Special Issue of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. Routledge 2017
• De Santis, D. (Ed). Lotze’s Back!. Special Issue of the Philosophical Readings10/2 (2018).
• De Santis, D. Derrida tra le fenomenologie: 1953-1967. La differenza e il trascendentale. Mimesis 2019
• De Santis, D. & Hopkins B. & Majolino, C. (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. Routledge 2020
• De Santis, D. & Majolino, C. (eds.). Phenomenology and the History of Platonism, Special issue of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica, 2020
• De Santis, D. (Hrsg.) Th. Conrad, Zum Gedächtnis Edmund Husserls (Ein unveröffentlichter Aufsatz aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek), Husserl Studies, 2021 (forthcoming) DOI: 10.1007/s10743-021-09289-8
• De Santis, D. Husserl and the A Priori. Phenomenology and Rationality. Dordrecht 2021
• De Santis, D. & D. Manca (Eds.), thematic issue of the journal Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2, 2021: “The Given: Kantian, Neo-Kantian and Phenomenological Perspectives”
• De Santis, D. Transcendental Idealism and Metaphysics. Husserl’s Critique of Heidegger. Volume 1. Cham 2023
• De Santis, D. Transcendental Idealism and Metaphysics. Husserl’s Critique of Heidegger. Volume 2. Cham 2023

Articles (selection)

• De Santis, D. „Sintesi e Dato. Husserl, Sellars e l’altro lato del ‚Mito‘,“ in: D. Manca, E. Magrì, A Ferrarin (cura di), Hegel e la fenomenologia trascendentale (ETS 2015), pp. 45-62
• De Santis, D. „Wesen, Eidos, Idea. Remarks on the ‚Platonism‘ of Jean Héring and Roman Ingarden,“ Studia Phaenomenologica, 2015, pp. 133-158
• De Santis, D. „Once Again, Gigantomachy: Prolegomena to a Reinterpretation of the Schlick-Husserl Quarrel on the Synthetic A Priori,“ Archivio di Filosofia, 2015, pp. 161-175
• De Santis, D. „Notes on Husserl’s Idealismus in theLogische Untersuchungen (via Lotze’s Interpretation of Plato),“ Research in Phenomenology, 2016, pp. 221-256
• De Santis, D. „Jean Héring on Eidos, Gegenstandand Methexis: Phenomenological Adventures and Misadventures of ‚Participation‘,“ Discipline Filosofiche (1), 2016, pp. 145-170
• De Santis, D. „‚Metaphysische Ergebnisse‘. Phenomenology and Metaphysics in Edmund Husserl’s Cartesianische Meditationen (§60). Attempt at Commentary,“ Husserl Studies, 2018, pp. 63-83
• De Santis, D. „Variation and Conflict. Remarks on Husserl’s Method of Eidetic Variation,“ Acta Mexicana de fenomenología, 3, 2018, pp. 13-35
• De Santis, D. “Le conclusioni della filosofia del conoscere. Appunti sul programma ‘razionalista’ di Husserl e Bontadini”, Bollettino filosofico, 2018, 185-207 (DOI: 10.6093/1593-7178/5916)
• De Santis, D. “‘Das Wunder hier ist die Rationalität’. Remarks on Husserl on Kant’s Einbildungskraftand The Idea of Transcendental Philosophy (With a Note on Kurd Laßwitz)”, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2019, 268-287
• De Santis, D. „The Practical Reformer: On Husserl’s Socrates,“ Husserl Studies, 35, 2019, 131-148, (DOI:10.1007/s10743-019-09245-7)
• De Santis, D. „Méditations Hégéliennes vs.Méditations Cartésiennes. Edmund Husserl and Wilfrid Sellars on the Given,“ in A. Ferrarin, D. Moran, E. Magrì, D. Manca (Eds.), Hegel and Phenomenology (Springer, Dordrecht), 177-192 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17546-7_11)
• De Santis, D. „’Nové pojetí bytí’. Lévinas o Husserlově fenomenologickém idealismu”, in O. Sikora and J. Sirovátka (Eds.),  Lévinas v konfrontaci(Prague 2019), 100-116 (ISBN: 978–80–7298–268–4);
• De Santis, D. “The Theoretical Reformer: On Husserl’s Plato (Husserl and the Figures of the History of Philosophy)”, The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 3, 2020, 231-246
• De Santis, D. “Synthesis and Identity. Husserl on Kant’s Contribution to the History of Philosophy”, in I. Apostolescu, C. Serban (Eds.), Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Philosophy(Berlin 2020), 271-294 (DOI: 10.1515/9783110564280-014)
• De Santis, D. “A Wrong Conception of Reason and the Solid Rock. The Debate that Never Was between Maximilian Beck and Dorion Cairns”, Discipline filosofiche, 1, 2020, 111-133
• De Santis, D. “‘Self-Variation.’ A Problem of Method of Husserl’s Phenomenology,” Husserl Studies, 2020, 255-269 (DOI: 10.1007/s10743-020-09270-x)
• De Santis, D. “‘An Ocean of Difficult Problems’. Husserl and Jean Hering’s Dissertationon the A Priori in R. H. Lotze”, Husserl Studies, 2020 (DOI: 10.1007/s10743-020-09277-4)
• De Santis, D. & Majolino, C. “Phaenomenologia sub specie Platonis. Editors’ Introduction,” Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. XX, 2020, 11-24
• De Santis, D. „Einleitung des Herausgebers“, in Th. Conrad, Zum Gedächtnis Edmund Husserls (Ein unveröffentlichter Aufsatz aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek), Husserl Studies, 2021 (forthcoming)
• De Santis, D. “Core of the Essence and Core of the Person: Jean Hering and a Hidden Source of Edith Stein’s Early Ontology,” Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2021, p. 90-108
• De Santis, D. “Problemas límite de la fenomenología trascendental: Teología, generatividad, absoluto”, in A. Serrano de Haro (Ed.), Guida comares de Husserl (Ediciones Comares, Madrid, 2021), p. 237-255
• De Santis, D. “Proteus, or ‘über den Grund der Zusammengehörigkeit.’ R. H. Lotze on idea, concept, and variation (via Frege and Heidegger)”, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2021, 18, p. 336-366
• De Santis, D. & N. de Warren, “Editorial Introduction”, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2021, 18, p. 293-296
• De Santis, D. & D. Manca, “The Given: Historical and Hermeneutical Category or Laziness and Perversion of Reason?”, Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2021, 2, p. 5-16
• De Santis, D. “Thought, Being and The ‘Given’ in Hans Vaihinger’s Die Philosophie des Als Ob (With a Husserlian Conclusion),” Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2021, 2, p. 93-111
• De Santis, D. “The Development of Husserl’s Concept of Metaphysics” in H. Jacobs (Ed.), The Husserlian Mind (Routledge: London, 2021), p. 481-493
• De Santis, D. “Contribution towards Reconstructing a Neglected ‘Schism’ in Early Phenomenology: The Cases of Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein,” in A. Calcagno, R. Miron (Eds.), Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein: Philosophical Encounters and Divides (Springer, Cham). forthcoming

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