Dr. Remus Breazu
Remus Breazu received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest (2020) with a thesis concerning the concept of transcendental in Edmund Husserl’s and Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology, under the guidance of Bogdan Mincă. The thesis received the Award of the Senate of the University of Bucharest, for The Best PhD Thesis in the Humanities in 2020. During 2017-2019, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, in the research project The Structures of Conflict: A Phenomenological Approach to Violence. During 2019-2022, he worked as an Associate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Bucharest. Currently, he is teaching at the Bucharest National University of Arts as a Lecturer, he is the Principal Investigator of the research project Limit-Phenomena and Nonsense. A Phenomenological Approach (2022-2024), which is hosted by the “Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy, and he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, in the research project Imagistic Violence. A Phenomenological Approach (2021-2023).
His main research interests are phenomenology, hermeneutics, and ancient Greek philosophy, with a focus on metaphysics, ontology, and aesthetics.
Publications List
Editions / Edited books (selection)
- Mincă B., Breazu R., Apostolescu I. (eds.). 2015. Aspecte ale metodei fenomenologice. București: Editura Universității din București.
Journal Articles (selection)
- Breazu R. (2022): The Aestheticization of Violence in Images, Philosophia;
- Breazu R. (2021): Heidegger’s Phenomenological Concept of Violence, The Southern Journal of Philosophy;
- Breazu R. (2020): The Concept of Priority in Aristotle’s Categories, Revue roumaine de philosophie, 64 (1);
- Breazu R. 2020): The Question of Violence Between the Transcendental and the Empirical Field: The Case of Husserl’s Philosophy, Human Studies, 43 (2);
- Breazu R. (2017): Reconstruction and Ontology in Noica’s Philosophy, Revue roumaine de philosophie, 61 (2);
- Breazu R. (2015) L’anachronisme à partir de l’herméneutique philosophique, Jus et civitas, 66 (2).
Book Chapters (selection)
- Breazu R. (2022): Pe marginea sublimului matematic, in: Studii în hermeneutica pre-judicativă și meontologie, vol. 6, edited by Viorel Cernica, 181–204. București: Editura Universității din București.
- Breazu R. (2021): Socrate în fața zeului. Apologia lui Socrate, 21 a-c., in: Studii în hermeneutica pre-judicativă și meontologie, vol. 5, edited by Viorel Cernica, 57–89. București: Editura Universității din București.
- Breazu R. (2020): Moarte și nonsens. Interpretare pre-judicativă a ființei întru moarte, in: Studii în hermeneutica pre-judicativă și meontologie, vol. 4, edited by Viorel Cernica, 55–90. București: Editura Universității din București.
- Breazu R. (2019): Caracterizarea gândirii ca theōria […] are loc dintru început înăuntrul interpretării ‘tehnice’ a gândirii, In: Heidegger și ființa omului. Scrisoarea despre „umanism“ după 70 de ani, edited by Cristian Ciocan and Bogdan Mincă, 51–88. Bucharest: Zeta Books.
- Breazu R. (2018), Conceptul heideggerian de autenticitate, In: Comunitate – Identitate – Diferență: Priviri fenomenologice, edited by Alexandru Bejinariu and Ileana Borțun, 59–90. Bucharest: Zeta Books.
- Breazu R. (2016): Variația și imaginea poetică, In: Estetica fenomenologică după centenar. Perspective istorice și tendințe actuale, edited by Mădălina Diaconu and Christian Ferencz-Flatz, 37-63. Iași: Editura Universității Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
Translations
- Zahavi, Dan. forthcoming. Conștiința de sine și alteritatea. O investigație fenomenologică. [Self-Awarness and Alterity. A Phenomenological Investigation] Oradea: Ratio & Revelation (from English into Romanian).
- Schnell, Alexander. 2019. Ce este fenomenul? [Qu’est-ce que le phénomène?]. Oradea: Ratio & Revelatio (from French into Romanian).
- Cairns, Dorion. 2018. Conversații cu Husserl și Fink [Conversations with Husserl and Fink]. Oradea: Ratio & Revelatio (from English and German into Romanian).