Prof. Bernhard Waldenfels

Bernhard Waldenfels received his Ph.D. from Munich. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum. He has been teaching as Visiting Professor in Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Louvain-la-Neuve, New York, Prague, Rome, and Vienna. His main fields of research are Phenomenology and contemporary French Philosophy. Recent publications: Antwortregister (1994, engl. tr. Registers of Responding, forthcoming); Order in the Twilight (1996); Bruchlinien der Erfahrung (2002); Phänomenologie der Aufmerksamkeit (2004); The Question of the Other. The Tang Chin-I Lecture for 2004 (2007); Sinne und Kunste im Wechselspiel (2010); Phenomenology of the Alien: Basic Concepts (2011).

Prof. Rudolf Bernet

Rudolf Bernet (born 1946) is currently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and President of the Husserl Archives. He studied philosophy in Louvain and Heidelberg and has a training in Freudian Psychoanalysis. As a guest professor he taught at the universities of Nice, Copenhagen, Rome, Boston College, Stony Brook, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Freiburg i. Br. Bernet has also served as president and vice-president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur phanomenologische Forschung in the years 1994-1998. In 2004 he was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie and in 2008 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungspreis. His main areas of research are: Phenomenology, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Philosophy, Life, Time, Art. Bernet’s books include: An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology (with I. Kern and E. Marbach) (Northwestern UP: 1993), La vie du sujet (Presses universitaires de France: 1994), Conscience et existence (Presses universitaires de France: 2004). He has prepared critical editions of Husserl’s posthumous writings on time (Meiner: 1985; Kluwer: 2001) and edited (with D. Welton and G. Zavota) Edmund Husserl: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Routledge: 2005). He has written more than 200 articles in French, German, English, Dutch (many of them translated in other languages) and is on the editorial board of about 20 philosophical and psychoanalytic journals.