1. Focus and scope

Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas is published by the Research Group: Filosofía aplicada: sujeto, sufrimiento, sociedad (PAIDI Code: HUM-018) and the Heidegger Archive of the University of Seville (Delegation of the M. Heidegger-Stifftung-Meßkirch) in collaboration with the University of Seville. It was founded in 2014 and is published annually, alternating between monographic issues (which focus on specific topics related to Heidegger's work) and miscellaneous issues, which provide readers with a representative overview of the direction of research on Heidegger in Europe and America. The journal also devotes considerable attention to the examination and critique of new publications on Heidegger's life and work, as well as to philosophical creation and the publication of specialised bibliographies. The journal has the following sections:

Studies: Research articles.

Derivas: Specialised articles, information and philosophical creation, reports, debates, translations...

Book reviews.

Quality is ensured through a double-blind peer review process for all articles. Contributions are accepted in the various languages widely spoken in the West: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian.

Differenz is a comprehensive compendium of the variety of philosophical views that coexist on Heidegger's work and its derivations. All ideas and opinions published are those of their authors, and therefore Differenz acts solely as a mouthpiece. In this role, it is pleased to open its pages to both renowned scholars and university professors and to newer and/or younger philosophers.

Distribution: In addition to Spanish universities, its distribution reaches most of the Ibero-American university space and various university and research centres in Europe and the United States.

 

2. Evaluation of originals

All sections are evaluated. The editorial committee initially decides whether the article is appropriate for the journal. In the case of research articles (Studies), if it is not rejected, the editorial committee selects reviewers who are experts in the subject matter of the article. The article then undergoes a more exhaustive evaluation process, which is carried out as follows: Each article is reviewed by two expert reviewers who advise on its publication (peer review). To ensure transparency, the reviewers do not know each other or the identity of the author being evaluated (blind review). More than 80% of the reviewers are external to the journal and the University of Seville. They are professors with doctorates from international research institutions, as well as authors who have published more than two articles in the journal and hold a bachelor's or doctoral degree in the field. If they wish, authors may propose external reviewers who are experts in the field.

 

3. Open Access and Archive Policy 

This journal provides open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps to promote a greater global exchange of knowledge. Differenz. International Journal of Heideggerian Studies and their Contemporary Derivatives follows a policy of disseminating its content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. The publication aims to give the widest possible dissemination to all work of sufficient quality, published in any medium with more limited dissemination. In this way, researchers and institutions that would otherwise be marginalised are integrated into a universal scientific dialogue. Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas will not charge authors any fees for submitting or sending articles, nor will it charge any fees for their publication.

Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas adheres to the LOCKSS, CLOCKSS and PKN (PN) archiving policies.

 

4. Frequency, languages of publication and privacy statement

The journal is published annually (in July), alternating between monographic issues (focusing on specific topics related to Heidegger's work) and miscellaneous issues, which provide readers with a representative overview of the direction of research on Heidegger in Europe and America. The journal also devotes considerable attention to the examination and critique of new publications on Heidegger's life and work, as well as to philosophical creation and the publication of specialised bibliographies. The languages accepted for original articles, contributions and correspondence are Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Italian and German.

Privacy statement: The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other person.

 

5. Ethical guidelines and good practice

1. Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas is structured according to a series of ethical principles and fundamental duties concerning the author, the editorial committee, the authors, and external reviewers. It also has a public procedure for receiving and handling complaints. The principles that determine the evaluation of articles are published both on its website and in the content of the journal in order to promote the transparency of the publication.

2. All processes inherent to transparency and that respect the principle of confidentiality will appear in the journal. Specifically, this will involve the publication of the article evaluation guide provided to referees, the procedure for receiving and managing complaints, and the ethical and good practice statement. The journal is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of authors to ensure a double-blind evaluation process. Likewise, this principle will be fundamental in the event of complaints or the disclosure of plagiarism or self-plagiarism until an official ruling on the case has been obtained. This principle must be respected by authors in articles involving experimental studies with humans or other circumstances that require the application of this ethical principle. The journal will maintain mechanisms to combat plagiarism and self-plagiarism in all instances, in accordance with the duties of each member of the journal, as outlined below.

3. Authors are free to express their own opinions as long as they do not violate the other principles of this statement, are based on academic criteria, and possess the appropriate scientific rigour. This principle translates into freedom of decision for the journal's reviewers and committees, provided that they meet the same requirements of academic rigour and argumentative justification.

4. Attention and respect for diversity and gender In order to avoid any type of discrimination, mechanisms have been created to promote respect for diversity. In this regard, the editor, editorial committee, authors, and referees must avoid any type of discrimination based on gender, race, political or religious ideology, or sexual orientation in their judgements and writings. Authors must report gender in the source data of published research in order to identify differences due to this aspect. The journal's editorial board encourages the use of inclusive language in submitted articles. Some guidelines for inclusive formatting are derived from international documents such as those approved by the United Nations and can be summarised as follows: avoid discriminatory expressions; use appropriate forms of address; include full names and surnames for both genders and avoid expressions that perpetuate gender stereotypes; make gender visible when the communicative situation requires it: explicitly refer to gender groups; use feminine and masculine pairs (split when necessary) and encourage typographical strategies: o/a, o(a). Do not make gender visible when the communicative situation does not require it: omit the article before gender-neutral nouns (journalist, participant, representative), use collective nouns and other generic structures when possible, choose gender-neutral adjectives instead of nouns.

5. A conflict of interest is understood to be those circumstances in which a person's primary interests are determined by secondary interests unrelated to them. Specifically, this principle applies to situations in which a referee is aware that they are evaluating an article by a person they know or with whom they have a relationship of any kind, or vice versa, when the author is aware that their evaluation depends on these circumstances. This circumstance applies to each of the members of the journal. In all these cases, a declaration of conflict of interest is mandatory so that the journal's editorial team can take the appropriate measures.

6. The ethical duties of the editor and the editorial committee are to act fairly, avoiding any type of discrimination based on gender, race, political or religious ideology, or sexual orientation, both in relation to authors and the journal's team; to manage all contributions based solely on their academic value and not on the financial resources contributed for their publication or on business interests; to encourage freedom of expression, the quality of the authors' arguments and the promotion of different modes of rationality in the works submitted; to maintain the editorial independence of the journal; to publish apologies, corrections, clarifications or retractions when necessary; to generate and monitor a fair procedure for handling complaints, including the possibility for complainants to receive a response in accordance with the ethical principles of the journal; encourage the correction of errors if they appear in articles; maintain the confidentiality of authors and referees or arbitrators in the blind peer review process of submitted works; publish the journal's evaluation criteria and procedures; maintain the integrity of academic records throughout the publication's existence. The editor is ultimately responsible for the acceptance and rejection of articles, with whose authors he or she must not have any conflicts of interest.

7. The ethical duties of external reviewers are to accept only those articles for which they have sufficient academic competence and knowledge; to inform the editor/editorial committee if the authorship can be deduced and to reject it to avoid violating the duty of double-blind review; in the event of detecting partial or total plagiarism or self-plagiarism, use of the text in conferences or presentations of various kinds, to inform the editor/editorial committee; to carry out an impartial blind review of the works received, providing constructive comments to the authors; to evaluate the articles exclusively according to academic criteria, generating a report articulated by the journal's evaluation guide, Avoid any type of discrimination based on gender, race, political or religious ideology, or sexual orientation in the review process. Be aware of the possibility of conflicts of interest of an institutional, financial, or collaborative nature between the referee and the work and, if detected, notify the editor so that the work received can be sent to another author. Respond to the evaluation of articles within a reasonable time frame.

8. The ethical duties of authors are to confirm that the article is not being evaluated by another publication, has not been published or presented at any academic event; if the article is a reworking of a conference, paper, communication, talk or similar, or corresponds to a subsequent reworking, the author must inform the editor and indicate this in a footnote on the first or last page of the work; to avoid any type of discrimination based on gender, race, political or religious ideology, or sexual orientation in the body of the work; to obtain permission for the publication of texts, graphics, or tables that do not belong to the author and require it, and to indicate their source; to cite the source of all ideas or content on which the argumentation of the work is based; to report any possible conflict of interest in relation to the review process; in the case of empirical studies involving humans or animals, the ethical principles required by national and international ethical regulations must be respected. If the study requires it, the necessary permission must be obtained from the ethics committee indicated for such research. These permissions include obtaining the explicit informed consent of the subjects involved in the study; facilitating the correction of errors and amendments if the article itself has been accepted and in accordance with the deadlines set; submitting articles in accordance with the journal's editorial line and accepting their rejection if they are not consistent with it, its area of knowledge or the bibliography and discussions specific to its field of development (however, there is a complaints line if you wish to use it in relation to this point); and stating in the article who has funded the research, if applicable. It is prohibited to publish the article in any other journal, transferring the rights to publish articles to the journal and requesting permission for their publication or editing in another medium if they have been approved. In the case of articles edited by several authors, all of them must have participated equally in the process.

9. The editor and editorial board will receive any ethical complaints or grievances related to Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas at any time of the year at the email address differenz@us.es. The complaint must be substantiated and accompanied by all the evidence and documents necessary for its evaluation by the editor and the editorial board. The editor will gather all the information, assisted, if necessary, by the members of the editorial board. The editor will request testimonies and arguments for and against the positions. If possible, the editor should gather this information in writing to forward it to the editorial board. The editor shall convene the editorial committee in order to present the details and provide them with all the information, manage the development of a ruling and the creation of a joint course of action. Normally, the editorial committee chaired by the editor, or the editor, shall resolve the issue within a maximum period of six months from receipt of all the documentation. It shall also issue a ruling, which shall be communicated to the persons involved. The rulings shall include: information to the author about the decision taken; information to the institutions involved in the submitted work about the decision of the ethics committee. If necessary, for example in the case of detection of plagiarism or self-plagiarism after publication of an article, the work shall be immediately withdrawn and the circumstance shall be publicly reported. Likewise, all indexes and catalogues where the Journal is indexed will be informed of this matter, and the author will be prohibited from republishing in the journal for a period of time to be determined in the ruling and decided by the Editorial Committee. In the event that the problem is related to the editor, the most senior member of the ethics committee will be chosen to lead the entire process.

 

6. History of the journal

We have been reading, commenting on, debating and criticising the work of M. Heidegger for several years now. Between one thing and another, since the last century. Friends and students from yesterday and today have been gathering around this enormous and disproportionate work in the permanent seminar dedicated to the endless ‘tell me how it happened’ that is the Gesamtausgabe. Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas as well as the Heidegger Archive at the University of Seville and the Research Grupo: Filosofía aplicada: sujeto, sufrimiento, sociedad are projects that have emerged from this permanent seminar. Its purpose, in part, is to stimulate, develop and publicise work and research related to the work and figure of the Todtnauberg hermit. In 2014, Differenz was created with the aim of becoming an international benchmark for Heideggerian studies in terms of quality, rigour and plurality.