The 5th International Research Summer School in Genetic Phenomenology will take place September 15-19, 2025, at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The 2025 Warsaw Summer School will be dedicated to an analysis of the second volume of Edmund Husserl’s Ideas pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. The volume is a paradigmatic work in Husserl’s genetic phenomenology, including manuscripts written between 1912-1928. It details the constitution of the physical, animate, and personal worlds, how they are related to each other, and the role of embodiment and intersubjectivity in this process. It thus occasions dialogue not only of genetic phenomenology but also phenomenology’s contributions to disciplines such as psychology and psychoanalysis, physics, mathematics, critical theories, and more. The 5th International RSS in Genetic Phenomenology will engage these topics while also attending to rigorous readings of the text, in anticipation of the publication of the new edition of the Ideas II. The aim of the Research Summer School is to discuss the epistemological and practical implications of the many “strange encounters” that arise through careful readings of Ideas II. Lectures and project workshops will focus on the text and related materials, and will include, alongside traditional phenomenological approaches, the perspectives of psychology, philosophical anthropology, science, mathematics, social theory, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy. A special focus of the Summer School includes cooperation with psychoanalytical scholars who shed light on the correlation between genetic phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

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