The Institute of Philosophy “Alexandru Dragomir”
was founded in 2009 under the auspices of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology, as a private and independent Research Institute, aiming to stimulate the high-quality philosophical research, with a special interest on phenomenology, hermeneutics and history of philosophy.
Interdisciplinary research projects are also welcome, provided that a philosophical dimension is essential. The Institute works by carrying out research grants won by competition, or funded from public or private, national or international sources.
RESEARCHERS
Hiring researchers at the Institute is based solely on winning research grants.
CONFERENCES
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PUBLICATIONS
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Alexandru Dragomir
Until his death in 2002, Alexandru Dragomir was known only as a strange figure who moved more or less mysteriously in Romanian intellectual circles. Everything that was known of him came from those who actually met him, because Dragomir never wanted to make himself known.
Indeed he had a sort of aversion towards the idea of becoming a public figure. It was known that back in the ’40s he had been a student of Heidegger’s, studying for a PhD degree in Freiburg.
Those who had the chance to meet him during the last decades of his life said that he possessed a fabulous philosophical knowledge, that he was brilliant as a thinker, and had an insightful and lively mind.
Our Latest Projects
2021 – 2023: Structures of Bodily Interaction. Phenomenological Contributions to Gesture Studies
The project aims to bring phenomenology into dialogue with the effervescent research conducted in contemporary gesture studies, an interdisciplinary conglomerate comprising cognitive analysis, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, psychology, linguistics and ethnographic study as well as, more recently, film and media studies. (PCE Project. Director: Dr. Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ)
2021 – 2023: Philosophy in Socialist Romania. A Case Study in Institutionalized Thought
The present project offers an in-depth analysis of philosophical thought under the communist regime in Romania, combining hermeneutical analysis with comparative, historical, and quantitative research. (PCE Project. Director: Dr. Alexandru CISTELECAN)
2020 – 2022: “I was there.” Laying the Foundations for a Comprehensive Phenomenology of Testimony
The underlying premise of our project is that only a phenomenology which is open to historical hermeneutics and which develops its analyses in the horizon of a philosophical anthropology of the subject is able to capture adequately the fundamental structures of the experience of testimony and to account for the new dimension of subjectivity… (TE Project Director: Dr. Paul MARINESCU)