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The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union (2023)
Book Chapter
Quenivet, N., Dadomo, C., & Tava, F. (2023). The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union. In European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (313-345). Colchester: ECPR Press

European solidarity is a contested concept. Social groups and political parties with different ideological orientations across the European Union often try to impose their own conception of solidarity to the detriment of alternative interpretations.... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union.

Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021) (2023)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2023). Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021). Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 54(4), 376-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2023.2229869

This review article analyses the topic of phenomenological Marxism, examining its historical formulations, critical contributions, and contemporary re-enactments. It begins with an overview of the works of Enzo Paci and the Milan school of phenomenol... Read More about Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021).

Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity (2023)
Journal Article
Russo, M., & Tava, F. (2023). Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 54(3), 234-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2023.2197952

This article analyses Sartre's conflicting interpretations of human relationality in Critique of Dialectical Reason and Hope Now in order to demostrate two things. First, that the social dynamics leading to the formation of what Sartre calls “fused g... Read More about Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity.

Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare (2023)
Journal Article
Kerasidou, C. X., Malone, M., Daly, A., & Tava, F. (2023). Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(12), 838-843. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108696

Digitalisation of health and the use of health data in artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML), including for applications that will then in turn be used in healthcare are major themes permeating current UK and other countries' healthcare... Read More about Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare.

Future humanities (2022)
Journal Article
Tava, F., & Oostveen, D. F. (2023). Future humanities. Future Humanities, 1(1), Article e2. https://doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.2

Future Humanities highlights the rise and convergence of new and critical humanities by publishing trans‐ and interdisciplinary research focused on diverse subjects and methodologies. These include, but are not limited to, philosophy, cultural and hi... Read More about Future humanities.

Solidarity today: A problem-based approach (2021)
Book Chapter
Tava, F. (2021). Solidarity today: A problem-based approach. In M. Cojocaru, D. Finkelde, J. Wallacher, A. Filipovic, & M. Reder (Eds.), Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive: Schwerpunkt: Solidarität am Scheideweg (65-85). Freiburg, München: Verlag Karl Alber

This chapter aims at establishing a problem-based approach to solidarity by describing its main characteristics and by testing its effectiveness in light of three pivotal issues today: immigration, the future of work, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The c... Read More about Solidarity today: A problem-based approach.

Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2021). Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities. Phenomenology and Mind, 20, 118-126. https://doi.org/10.17454/pam-2010

This paper provides an account of the challenges and potentialities of a solidarity-based approach to data access and governance. To do that, it offers an infraethical understanding of solidarity that describes it as a structural moral enabler that c... Read More about Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities.

Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2022). Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 53(4), 370-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2021.2015697

The aim of this article is to shed light on the reflections that Czech Marxist philosopher Karel Kosík dedicated to literature, and particularly to the writings of Franz Kafka, from the 1960s to the 1990s. More specifically, this article clarifies wh... Read More about Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka.

Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought (2021)
Book Chapter
Tava, F. (2021). Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought. In Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete (57-74). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004503243_005

One of the pivotal issues in the thought of Karel Kosík is that of praxis. Although various interpreters have recognised the centrality of this notion and identified its affinity with other theories of praxis drawn from the traditions of Marxism and... Read More about Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought.

The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question (2021)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Tava, F. (2021). The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question. Philosophy Today, 65(3), 571-598. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2021519408

This paper examines, both historically and conceptually the development and technological mediation of the concept of solidarity. We argue for both an emphasis on the workplace as the locus of solidarity relations and for a phenomenological approach... Read More about The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question.

European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives (2021)
Book Chapter
Tava, F. (2021). European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives. In D. Meacham, & N. de Warren (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Europe (211-221). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686233-18

Since the end of the Second World War, European construction has developed side by side with reiterated attempts to envision and implement European solidarity. This chapter addresses the complex scenario in which European political actors ostensibly... Read More about European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives.

Justice, emotions, and solidarity (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2023). Justice, emotions, and solidarity. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 26(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1893251

This paper discusses Habermas’s argument that justice requires solidarity as its ‘reverse side’, whereby the former provides the necessary global framework for establishing intersubjective solidarity whilst the latter constitutes an important precond... Read More about Justice, emotions, and solidarity.

Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology (2020)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Tava, F. (2021). Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology. Studies in East European Thought, 73, 309–326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-020-09398-8

This article examines the relation between two key, but seemingly opposed concepts in Jan Patočka’s thought: epoché and the concrete institutional polis. In doing so it attempts to elucidate the inextricable relation between phenomenology and politic... Read More about Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology.

Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology (2018)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2018). Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology. Metodo, 6(2), 71-98

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka’s philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology.

Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna (2018)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2018). Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka's philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna.

The heresy of history: Patočka's reflections on Marx and Marxism (2016)
Book Chapter
Tava, F. (2016). The heresy of history: Patočka's reflections on Marx and Marxism. In Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (183-200). London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield

Although Jan Patočka often addressed Marx’s thought, as well as the intellectual and historical development of Marxism, up till now the reasons for his interest, as well as the outcomes of his investigation, have seldom been made the object of analy... Read More about The heresy of history: Patočka's reflections on Marx and Marxism.

Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (2016)
Book
Tava, F., & Meacham, D. E. (Eds.). (2016). Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics. London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield International

Jan Patočka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier.... Read More about Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics.