Call for Papers
Call for papers: a special issue on gestures and ethics (Winter 2009)
Poligrafi, a Slovenian journal for philosophy and interdisciplinary study of religion invites you to submit articles for the 2009 Winter double issue. We are seeking contributions from the fields of philosophy, religious science and theology to reflect upon the role of gestures in the ethical life as well as to highlight the understanding and importance of gestures within the contemporary personal, social and political ethics. We are looking at various contributions from the wide range of discussions extending from immediate/noncognitive perceptions and experiences to different linguistic and cultural environments in order to explain various sources and practical consequences of ethical sensibilities and activities of our age.
Designated topics include:
. a genealogy of gestures (philosophy, religion, theology)
. gestures and the moral order
. gesture as a source of the ethical
. the body and ethical gestures (hand, touch.)
. gestures in the feminine
. phenomenology, lived experience and ethical gestures
. the philosophy of Luce Irigaray
. Levinasian gestures
. the understanding and role of gestures in Indian philosophy (Buddhist practice, Yoga)
. sacred gestures
. various interpretations of the acknowledment of gestures in the history of Western and non-Western philosophies
Submissions on related topics are also welcome. The special issue will be edited by Lenart ©kof of the Departments of Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia, the editor-in-chief of Poligrafi. Reviews of relevant recent books are also welcome.
Invited contributors to the issue are Luce Irigaray and David Kleinberg-Levin, the author of Gestures of Ethical Life (Stanford Univ. Press, 2005). Your are invited to contribute papers by following the instructions for authors, available at the journal website. Deadline for the papers is October 30, 2009. For all other questions please contact the editor.
Dr Lenart ©kof, Assoc. Prof., Senior Research Associate
University of Primorska
Faculty of Humanities Koper
Depts. of Anthropology and Philosophy
Titov trg 5, SI-6000 Koper
SLOVENIA
lenart.skof@fhs.upr.si
http://www.fhs.upr.si
Submissions:
Manuscripts, editorial correspondence and books for review should be sent to the Editorial Office. Book reviews should be sent to the Book-Reviews Editor.
Authors should follow general instructions listed below. Submit two paper copies and a copy on disk (standard word-processing programme in PC format, preferably in Word). An abstract of not more than 150 words should accompany each manuscript. Authors should provide full contact details, including e-mail address on a separate page. All manuscripts are subject to editing. Copies and disks will not be returned.
General instructions for authors (authors submitting articles in French, Spanish, German and Italian language should adjust instructions to their languages):
Citations
1 W. Halbfass, India and Europe. State Univ of New York, New York 1990, pp. 245-256.
2 Halbfass, op. cit., p. 55; cf. also n. 34.
3 Op. cit., p. 345sg.
4 See G. Erdosy (ed.), The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, p. 260sgg.
5 H. von Glassenapp, "Parallels and Contrasts in Indian and Western Metaphysics", Philosophy East and West, 3, 1953, p. 223.
6 Cf. R.C. Neville, "Motif Analysis East and West", in: Elberfeld, R. et al. (eds.): Komparative Philosophie, Schriften der Académie du Midi, Bd. IV, Fink, München 1998, pp. 197-212.
7 See Erdosy 1995, p. 367.
Bibliographical references
1. Olivelle, P. (tr.) (1992), Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Ascetism and Renunciation. Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press.
2. Ogawa, T. (1998), "Qi and phenomenology of wind", Continental Philosophy Review 31, 321-335.