My main philosophical interests lie in 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st century Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology, hermeneutics, and philosophical anthropology. In recent years, I have sought to extend phenomenological inquiry into relatively unexplored areas. My recent publications have focused primarily on affectivity, particularly experiences such as pain, imagination, especially productive imagination, self-awareness, including displaced self-awareness, and historicity, with particular attention to sedimentation. Methodologically, my research is grounded in the principles of classical phenomenology. I have published extensively in these areas.

I am the Outstanding Fellow in the Faculty of Arts (2024–2029) and the recipient of the 2020–2021 Research Excellence Award at CUHK. My book The Phenomenology of Pain received two international awards: the Edward G. Ballard Prize, presented by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology for an outstanding book in phenomenology, and the Hermes Award: A Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutic, presented by the International Institute for Hermeneutics. I have also received numerous research fellowships and grants, including the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, and have been awarded the General Research Fund grant on four occasions.

In addition to teaching courses in the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the modern period, I have offer advanced undergraduate and graduate lectures and seminars in aesthetics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of imagination. I received the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award in 2012–2013 and again in 2017–2018.

• Phenomenology (esp. Husserl and Heidegger)
• Hermeneutics (esp. Gadamer and Ricoeur)
• Philosophical anthropology (esp. Plessner and Scheler)
• 19th century philosophy (esp. Hegel and Nietzsche)
• Philosophy of Pain
• Philosophy of Imagination

(a more extensive list of my publications is available here: https://cuhk.academia.edu/SauliusGeniusas)

Books

Geniusas, S. 2022. Pramanų fenomenologija: apie estetiką, vaizduotę ir savimonę (Phenomenology of Fiction: On Aesthetics, Imagination and Self-Awareness). Vilnius: Hubris.

Geniusas, S. 2022. Phenomenology of Productive Imagination: Embodiment, Language, Subjectivity. Hanover: Ibidem Press (Body and Consciousness Series).

Geniusas, S. 2021. Kas yra skausmas? Deskriptyvi psichologija, transcendentalinė fenomenologija ir natūralizmas (What is Pain? Descriptive Psychology, Transcendental Phenomenology and Naturalism, in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Phi knygos.

Geniusas, S. 2020. The Phenomenology of Pain. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (Series in Continental Thought, No. 53).

Geniusas, S. 2012. The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Dordrecht/New York: Springer (Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 67).

(Co-)Edited Books

Geniusas, S. (ed.). (2026). What is Sedimentation? Consciousness, History, Language. Continental Philosophy Review 59/3: 405-622.

Geniusas, S. (ed.), 2023. Varieties of Self-Awareness. Dordrecht/New York: Springer.

Geniusas, S. (ed.), 2018. Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination: Studies in Kantianism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics. Rowman & Littlefield.

Geniusas, S. and Nikulin, D. (eds.), 2018. Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance. Rowman & Littlefield.

Geniusas, S. and Fairfield, P. (eds.), 2018. Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes. Bloomsbury.

Fairfield, P. and Geniusas, S. (eds.), 2018. Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy. Bloomsbury.

Articles

Geniusas, S. (2026). Generative Phenomenology and Sedimentations. Continental Philosophy Review. 59/3: 465-486.

Geniusas, S. (2026). Phenomenology of Solastalgia: From Transcendental Homelessness to Transcendental Placelessness. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 46/2: 513-536.

Geniusas, S. (2026). Miki Kiyoshi’s Philosophy of Institutions. International Journal of Social Imaginaries 5/1: 70-96.

Geniusas, S. (2025). The Origins of Sedimentation in Husserl’s Phenomenology. European Journal of Philosophy 33/3: 1021-1037.

Geniusas, S. (2025). Thinking without Language: A Preamble to the Phenomenology of Spontaneous Thoughts. Phänomenologische Forschungen, Beiheft 7: 203-222.

Geniusas, S. (2025). Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time. Emotion Review 17/2, 110-120.

Geniusas, S. (2024). The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Human Studies 48/1: 91-115.

Geniusas, S. (2024). From the Phenomenology of Reactivation to the Hermeneutics of Innovation: Paul Ricœur on Sedimentation as the Dialectical Counterpart of Productive Imagination. International Journal of Social Imaginaries 3: 31-63.

Geniusas. S. (2024). Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Mind-Wandering. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 23/2: 329-348.

Geniusas, S. (2024). Myself as the Other: Schutz and Gurwitsch on Strangers, Refugees and Homecomers. As a Journal 6: 6-14.

Geniusas, S. (2023). Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Sedimentations. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 54/2: 155-177.

Geniusas, S. (2023). Destiny, Love and Rational Faith in Husserl’s Post World War I Ethics. Human Studies 46: 443-465.

Geniusas, S. (2022). Modes of Self-Awareness: Perception, Dreams, Memory. Husserl Studies 38/2: 151-170.

Geniusas, S. (2022). Towards a Phenomenology of the Unconscious: Husserl and Fink on Versunkenheit. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53/1, 1-23.

Chapters in Anthologies

Geniusas, S. (2025). On Tertiary Retentions and Digital Sedimentations: Stiegler and Phenomenology. In M. Cavallaro & N. de Warren (Eds.), Phenomenologies of the Digital Age: The Virtual, the Fictional, the Magical (pp. 122-145). Routledge.

Geniusas, S. (2023). Daydreaming and Self-Awareness. In: Varieties of Self-Awareness: New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy, ed. by Saulius Geniusas. Dordrecht/New York: Springer, 45-61.

Geniusas, S. (2021). Grundlinien einer Phänomenologie der Versunkenheit. In: Leben in lebendigen Fragen. Zwischen Kontinuität und Pluralität, ed. by Franziska Neufeld, Chiara Pasqualin, Anne Kirstine Rönhede, and Sihan Wu, Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 367-390.

Geniusas, S. (2020). Horizon. In: The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, ed. by Daniele de Santis, Burt Hopkins, Claudio Majolino. London and New York: Routledge, 221-230.

Geniusas, S. (2020). Husserl’s Concepts of Apperzeption and Weltapperzeption. In: Die Welt und das Reale / The World and the Real / Le Monde et le reel, ed. by Karel Novotny, Cathrin Nielsen, Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, 13-30.

Geniusas, S. (2020). What is Productive Imagination? The Hidden Resources of Husserl’s Phenomenology of Phantasy. In: The Subject(s) of Phenomenology, ed. by I. Apostolescu, Dordrecht: Springer, 135-153.

Geniusas, S. (2019). Max Scheler’s Theodicy of Suffering. In: Scheler und das asiatische Denken im Weltalter des Ausgleichs (Scheleriana 6), ed. by Ch. Gutland, X. Yang, W. Zhang. Verlag Traugott Bautz, 257-270.