Dr. Remus Breazu
Remus Breazu received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest in 2020 with a thesis concerning the concept of transcendental in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, under the supervision 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. He has held research positions at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest (2017-2019; 2021-2023), and served as an Associate Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest (2019-2022), before becoming the principal investigator of the research project Limit-Phenomena and Nonsense. A Phenomenological Approach (2022–2024), hosted by the “Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy. Since 2021, he has been a lecturer at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he teaches philosophy of art, aesthetics, and ethics. He also occasionally teaches courses on modern and contemporary philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. His publications include articles in leading international philosophy journals, as well as translations of works by phenomenological philosophers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Dan Zahavi, Alexander Schnell, or Dorion Cairns.
His main research interests include phenomenology, hermeneutics, and ancient Greek philosophy, with a particular focus on metaphysics, ontology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of the image.
Publications List
Editions / Edited books (selection)
- Bejinariu A., Breazu R., Ciocan, C. (eds.). (2025). Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience. Human Studies. Springer.
- Mincă B., Breazu R., Apostolescu I. (eds.). (2015). Aspecte ale metodei fenomenologice. București: Editura Universității din București.
Journal Articles (selection)
- Breazu R. (2025): Sense-Bestowal and Sense-Withdrawal, Human Studies, 48: 75-90.
- Bejinariu, A., Breazu R., Ciocan, C. (2025). Phenomenology and the Limits of Experience: Editors’ Introduction, Human Studies, 48: 1-12.
- Breazu R. (2024). Violence in mass-mediated images and memory. Phenomenological account of prosthetic memories, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2024.
- Breazu R. (2023): The Aestheticization of Violence in Images, Philosophia, 51(1): 33-52.
- Breazu R. (2021): Heidegger’s Phenomenological Concept of Violence, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 60(4): 494-517.
- Breazu R. (2020): The Concept of Priority in Aristotle’s Categories, Revue roumaine de philosophie, 64 (1)): 169-181.
- Breazu R. 2020): The Question of Violence Between the Transcendental and the Empirical Field: The Case of Husserl’s Philosophy, Human Studies, 43 (2): 159-170.
- 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. (2023). Refuzul sensului din privirea celuilalt, in: Studii în hermeneutica pre-judicativă și meontologie, vol. 7, edited by Viorel Cernica, 221-242. București: Editura Universității din București.
- 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. (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
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. (2026). Scrieri despre artă. București: UNArte (anthology containing “Le doute de Cézanne,” “Le langage indirect et les voix du silence,” and L’Œil et l’Esprit, translated from French into Romanian).
- 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).