Call for papers Revista de Filosofía Special issue

Being and Time 100th Anniversary (1927–2027): problems, interpretations and current transformations

Guest editors: Carmen Segura Peraita and Stefano Cazzanelli Martin Heidegger’s

Being and Time was published in 1927. This masterpiece transformed decisively 20th century philosophy, and its influence still endures. One hundred years later, the book remains an essential reference for ontology, hermeneutic phenomenology and hermeneutics. Moreover, its scope has extended to many other philosophical currents and contributes to the analysis of contemporary issues in ethics, politics, the philosophy of technology,  sychology, and psychiatry, among others.

The analytic of Dasein, the thematization of temporality, the structure of Being-in-theworld, and the question of Being form a cluster of central topics that continue to inspire philosophical research and critical reflection. In this sense, Heidegger’s masterpiece remains a fertile source of ideas, questions, and problems that guide and nourish contemporary philosophy.

This special issue has two aims: to  ommemorate the centenary of Being and Time and to offer a critical examination of its significance and influence. To this end, we seek to explore in depth the impact and legacy of this work, considering both its fundamental ontological core and its contemporary projections.

Accordingly, we invite original contributions that analyze the main theses and features of Being and Time, such as its destructive-critical  pproach, its key concepts, its genesis, its reception, and the diverse ways in which the book has been interpreted, both within philosophy and across other disciplines.

In other words, this special issue aims to foster a discussion focused on three key themes:

1. The theoretical-ontological approach of Being and Time and its main features.
2. An inquiry into the book’s genesis, context, and reception.
3. A rigorous and critical reactivation of its main categories within the horizon of contemporary philosophy.

Some non-exhaustive topics are listed below:

Main topics

1. Conceptual, methodological, and translation-related questions
This line will cover issues related to the structural features of the book, terminological difficulties, and questions concerning its transmission and translation.

2. The genesis of Being and Time: new inquiries

This line will include new contributions on the origins of Heidegger’s project, taking into account his lectures, seminars, and materials prior to 1927.

3. Scope and critical assessment of fundamental ontology and the question of Being “in” and “after” Being and Time.

This line will address critical examinations of Heidegger’s ontological project, its validity, its limits, and subsequent developments concerning the question of Being.

4. The methodological status of existential analytics and its relation to phenomenology

This line will cover investigations into the phenomenological-hermeneutic character of existential analytics, its specificity and differences from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, and its dialogue with contemporary philosophical trends.

5. Temporality and existence: contemporary re-readings

This line will cover contemporary interpretations of Dasein’s temporality and its articulation with existence, historicity, and the understanding of Being.

6. Finitude, Death, Angst and Care (Sorge)

This line will address contemporary interpretations of these fundamental concepts, with special attention to the existential structure of Sorge.

7. Care and responsibility in today’s world

This line will explore the extension of care within ethical, political, social, and environmental contexts, considering its current relevance.

8. Language, hermeneutics, and understanding

This line will examine the connections between understanding, interpretation, and discourse, as well as the hermeneutic role of language in the articulation of meaning and in clarifying the understanding of Being.

9. Body, affects, and attunement (Befindlichkeit)

This line will address questions concerning corporeality, the phenomenology of affects, and the constitutive role of attunement in our affective disposition and our openness to the world.

10. Everyday world and forms of life

This line will explore the structure of everyday life, worldliness, and its connection to the sense of self, including contemporary and digital environments.

11. Interdisciplinary dialogues

This line will cover contributions that articulate existential analytics with other disciplines (psychiatry, cognitive science, social theory, aesthetics, etc.), addressing the influence of Being and Time beyond philosophy.

12. Reception and contemporary transformations of Being and Time This line will examine appropriations, reinterpretations, and critiques of the book, considering its relevance and continuing timeliness.

Languages of publication: Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese

Review process: double-blind.
Deadline: December 31, 2026

Guidelines: All information regarding requirements and submission guidelines is available on the journal’s website:
https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/about/submissions

Articles that do not comply with the journal’s requirements will not be sent for peer review