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: An Existential Interpretation of Respiratory Facts, explores the phenomenon of breath in the works of philosopher Hans Jonas—from the early works on Gnosticism and Christianity through his influential philosophical biology to the later reflections on technology and environmental ethics.
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.
His general research interests include Hegel's philosophy, eco-Marxism, the phenomenological tradition, Lacanian psychoanalysis, in addition to a range of other thinkers in post-Kantian philosophy.