Lovisa Andén
Senior Lecturer
Culture and Education
I defended my PhD at Uppsala University/Södertörn University 2017. My thesis concerns literature, language and experience in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In particular, I examine Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry and Stendhal in his unpublished course notes from Collège de France 1953-1954. I have transcribed, edited and annotated the course Sur le problème de la parole together with Franck Robert and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert (to be published at MetisPresses in February 2020).
I am currently working on a post-doctoral research project funded by Östersjöstiftelsen, on memoirs from the Gulag Archipelago written by western survivors. In particular, the project focuses on the question of truth with regard to literature and subjective experiences. Furthermore, it explores the interrelation between experience, literary expression and reality in the case of Gulag memoirs.
Publications
Peer-reviewed original articles
2019 Andén, Lovisa. Literature and the Expressions of Being in Merleau-Ponty’s Unpublished Course Notes. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50: 3, pp. 208-219.2018 Andén, Lovisa. Language and Tradition in Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl and Saussure. Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. XVIII, pp. 183-205.
Monographs
2017 Andén, Lovisa. Diss., Litteratur och erfarenhet i Merleau-Pontys läsning av Proust, Valéry och Stendhal (Literature and Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Proust, Valéry and Stendhal). Uppsala: Departement of Philosophy, Uppsala University.
Books And Book Chapters
February 2020. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Le problème de la parole: cours au Collège de France: notes 1953-1954, ed. Lovisa Andén, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert and Franck Robert. Genève: MētisPresses.
February 2020. Andén, Lovisa. Avant-propos: Pour une phénoménologie du langage : le primat ontologique de la parole. In Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Le problème de la parole: cours au Collège de France: notes 1953-1954, ed. Lovisa Andén, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert and Franck Robert. Genève: MētisPresses.
Other
2019 Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. Présentation. Le problème de la parole, extrait de la leçon du 25 février 1954. Proust et la littérature. In Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 25-28. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019214
2019 Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. Introduction: The Problem of Speech. Excerpt from the February 25th Lecture. Proust and Literature, translated by Rajiv Kaushik in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 29-32. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019215
2019 Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. Introduzione: Le problème de la parole, estratto della lezione del 25 febbraio 1954. Proust e la letteratura, translated by Claudio Rozzoni in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 33-36. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019216
2019 Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Extrait. Proust. Une théorie, – et une pratique concordante, – du langage, ed. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. In Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 37-43. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019217
2019 Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Excerpt. Proust. A Theory, – and a Concordant Practice, – of Language, ed. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert, translated by Rajiv Kaushik in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 45-51. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019218
2019 Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Estratto. Proust. Una teoria, – e una pratica concordante, – del linguaggio, ed. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert, translated by Claudio Rozzoni in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 53-59. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019219
Reviews
2012 Andén, Lovisa. Review of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression. In The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 341-346. Manchester: Haigh & Hochland.
Popular Science
2018 Andén, Lovisa. Litteratur och erfarenhet i Merleau-Pontys filosofi. In Salongen, 5th May, (http://www.salongen.no/?p=14619 External link.).2015 Andén, Lovisa. Litteraturen som nyckeln till frihet. In Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket, 3rd January, (https://www.svd.se/litteraturen-som-nyckeln-till-frihet External link.).
2014 Andén, Lovisa. Människans revolt och historiens revolutioner. In Dixikon, essä, 2nd February, (https://www.dixikon.se/manniskans-revolt-och-historiens-revolutioner/ External link.).
2011 Andén, Lovisa. En oavslutad filosofi; Merleau-Ponty efter 50 år. In Dixikon, essä, 3rd November (https://www.dixikon.se/filosofi-merleau-ponty/ External link.).The researcher is not participating in any projects at this moment.