Edvard Lia
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Research interests
Edvard Lia is a PhD Student in Religious Studies/Theology/Philosophy. His PhD project, tentatively titled The Phenomenon of Breath: Toward a Philosophical Pneumatology, traces an underexplored respiratory line in the works of philosopher Hans Jonas—from Gnosticism and the Judeo-Christian tradition to philosophical biology and environmental ethics—with the overarching aim of establishing what resources a Jonasian phenomenology of breath might provide for our current ecological predicament.
Lia's MA Thesis in English Literature from 2023, titled Political Forms of Infinity in Contemporary Ecopoetry and Ecofiction: Why We Read in a Time of Crisis, articulates literature's political efficacy for responding to the ecological crisis by drawing on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's concept of true infinity and Anna Kornbluh's political formalism.
His other general research interests include contemporary eco-poetry and -fiction, Hegel's philosophy, eco-Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as thinkers from the phenomenological tradition.