Emanuele Mariani

My supervision and co-supervision of BA, MA and PhD theses mainly concerns theoretical philosophy, phenomenology, ontology and metaphysics, modern and contemporary German and French philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of religion and literature, and the history of philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. The main reference courses are Theoretical Philosophy and Theories of Ontology.

1. Theoretical philosophy, philosophical anthropology and subjectivity

Reference courses: Theoretical Philosophy; From Soul to Consciousness: Metaphysics, Psychology, Phenomenology; Kant, the Anthropological Problem and the Emergence of Modern Psychology; The Human Being and Psyché between Nature and Spirit: Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy; Philosophy, Psychology, Phenomenology.

Topics: consciousness, soul, psyché, subjectivity, personal identity, plurality of the self, intentionality, psychologism, language, communication, sociality, philosophical anthropology, phenomenological-hermeneutic psychotherapy.

Supervised or co-supervised thesis titles:

– The Plurality of the Self: An Analysis of the Fragmentation of Identity in Personality Disorders and the Phenomenon of Pseudonymity in Kierkegaard
– Behaviorism and Meaning: A Study of Intentionality in Wittgenstein
– Communication and Sociality: Phenomenology and Psycholinguistics
– Beyond Psychology: Subjectivity in Phenomenology and the Problem of Psychologism
– Anxiety as the Possibility of Rearticulating Meaning in Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Psychotherapy

2. Phenomenology, method, body, emotions and intersubjectivity

Reference courses: Phenomenology; Phenomenology: Basic Themes and Concepts; Topics in Phenomenological Thought; Phenomenology and Subjectivity; Empathy, Sympathy, Intersubjectivity: Husserl, Stein, Scheler; Philosophy of the Body; Transcendental Phenomenology and Ontologies.

Topics and authors: Husserl, Brentano, Merleau-Ponty, Edith Stein, Scheler, phenomenological method, description, the lived body, perception, emotions, empathy, intersubjectivity, communication, passive synthesis, communities of persons.

Supervised or co-supervised thesis titles:

– The Role of Emotions in Husserl’s Phenomenology
– Phenomenological Consciousness: A Comparison between Husserl and Brentano
– Merleau-Ponty and the Body
– Originary Perception in Merleau-Ponty
– The Higher-Order Person
– The Problem of Communication in Husserlian Phenomenology
– The Constitution of the Lived Body in Husserl
– The Constitution of the Unity of the Community of Persons in Husserl’s Phenomenology
– Passive Synthesis in Husserl
– Edith Stein’s Realist Idealism and its Platonic Presuppositions

3. Ontology, metaphysics, categories and the transcendental

Topics and authors: being, metaphysics, ontology, categories, the transcendental, analogy, possibility, indeterminacy, the relation between knowledge and existence, Aristotle, Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Trendelenburg.

Supervised or co-supervised thesis titles:

– Indeterminacy and Possibility: Categories of Knowledge and Existence
– Categories of Language, Categories of Being: Aristotle, Trendelenburg, Benveniste

4. History of philosophy from a phenomenological perspective and modern and contemporary French and German philosophy

Topics and authors: the history of philosophy approached through phenomenological problems, Kant, Leibniz, Neo-Kantianism, Natorp, Husserl, Heidegger, Dilthey, Brentano, Trendelenburg, consciousness, subjectivity, anthropology, history of psychology, descriptive method.

Supervised or co-supervised thesis titles:

– Heidegger and the Destruction of History
– Beyond Substance: Paths of Identity between Martin Heidegger and Judith Butler
– Dilthey and Contemporary Anthropology
– The Place of Description: A Methodological Concept in the Philosophy of Franz Brentano

5. Philosophy of existence, religion, literature and alterity

Reference courses: Theoretical Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Man and Philosophy; What is Man? What is Philosophy?

Topics: existence, identity, alterity, death, evil, religious experience, hermeneutics, pseudonymity, philosophy and literature, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Arendt, Marion, Pareyson, Deleuze, Guattari.

Supervised or co-supervised thesis titles:

– The Possibility of the Impossible: Rethinking Being-toward-Death with Arendt and Marion
– Evil in God: The Hermeneutics of Religious Experience in Luigi Pareyson
– The Existential Dilemma of the I between Kierkegaard and Aristotle
– The Dialectic of the Other: An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Philosophical and Literary Works
– The Concept of “Rhizome” in the Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari