Gabriel Barroso

Research projects

Phenomenology
beyond culture

A systematic dialogue between phenomenological philosophy and contemporary anthropology.

Current project

COSMOS · MSCA

Beyond Culture: Towards a Phenomenological Foundation of Anthropology

Anthropology has challenged the universality of the divide between nature and culture, arguing that it reflects a particular modern ontology rather than a neutral framework for understanding collective life. This challenge has major consequences for philosophy and the human sciences.

COSMOS asks how phenomenology can account for different modes of collective existence without reducing them to representations of one pre-given nature. It draws on Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Schütz to develop an account of embodiment, intersubjectivity, and the common world capable of incorporating anthropology’s radical insight into plurality.

Host
Husserl Archives, KU Leuven
Supervisor
Prof. Julia Jansen
Funding
European Union · Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Grant
101155561
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Previous project

DAAD-PRIME

Beyond Nature: Foundations of a Phenomenological Archaeology

This project investigated the limits of naturalism and the phenomenological conditions under which nature becomes meaningful. It combined research at the University of Wuppertal and the Husserl Archives Leuven and provided the groundwork for my current engagement with anthropology.

Institutions
University of Wuppertal / KU Leuven
Supervisor
Prof. Alexander Schnell
Funding
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Research questions

  • 01How do shared worlds sustain divergent modes of experience?
  • 02Can plurality be understood without relativism or false universalism?
  • 03How are perspectives individuated through embodied and social relations?
  • 04What can anthropology contribute to phenomenology’s account of reason?

Research output

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