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708Wilhelm Dilthey and the Formative-Generative ImaginationIn Saulius Geniusas (ed.), Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination: Studies in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Neo-Kantianism, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.
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656Dilthey and Carnap: The Feeling of Life, the Scientific Worldview, and the Elimination of MetaphysicsIn Johannes Feichtinger, Franz L. Fillafer & Jan Surman (eds.), The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930, Palgrave. 2018.
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1202Heidegger’s Failure to Overcome Transcendental PhilosophyIn Halla Kim & Steven Hoeltzel (eds.), Transcendental Inquiry: Its History, Methods and Critiques, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 159-179. 2016.
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1121Martin Buber's Phenomenological Interpretation of Laozi's DaodejingIn David Chai (ed.), Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology, Bloomsbury. pp. 105-120. 2020.
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422Introduction to the Special Theme: Heidegger, Politics, and Chinese PhilosophyFrontiers of Philosophy in China 14 (4): 519-522. 2019.
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35Heidegger’s Daoist TurnResearch in Phenomenology 49 (3): 362-384. 2019.Heidegger’s “Evening Conversation: In a Prisoner of War Camp in Russia, between a Younger and an Older Man”, one of three dialogues composed by Heidegger after the defeat of National Socialist Germany published in Country Path Conversations explores the being-historical situation and fate of the German people by turning to the early Daoist text of the Zhuangzi. My article traces how Heidegger interprets fundamental concepts from the Zhuangzi, mediated by way of Richard Wilhelm’s translation Das …Read more
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847Chai, David, Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness: Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019, 216 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18 (2): 291-294. 2019.
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1321Confucian Relational Hermeneutics, the Emotions, and Ethical LifeIn Paul Fairfield & Saulius Geniusas (eds.), Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy, Bloomsbury. pp. 193-204. 2018.In paradigmatic Confucian (Ruist) discourses, emotion (qing) has been depicted as co-arising with human nature (xing) and an irreducible constitutive source of human practices and their interpretation. The affects are concurrently naturally arising and alterable through how individuals react and respond to them and how they are or are not cultivated. That is, emotions are relationally mediated realities given in and transformed through how they are felt, understood, interpreted, and acted upon. …Read more
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622Suffering, Evil, and the Emotions: A Joseon Debate between Neo-Confucianism and BuddhismInternational Journal of Korean Studies 16 447-462. 2016.
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209Muller, A. Charles, Korea’s Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatises of Chong Tojon and Hamho Tuktong : Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015, 181 pages (review)Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 16 (1): 133-137. 2017.
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624Introduction: Hegel, Difference, MultiplicityJournal of Chinese Philosophy 44 (3-4): 121-126. 2017.
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411Hegel in Intercultural and Critical Perspective: IntroductionFrontiers of Philosophy in China 13 (4). 2018.
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470Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Briefe über China (1694-1716): Die Korrespondenz mit Barthélemy Des Bosses S.J. und anderen Mitgliedern des Ordens (review)Philosophy East and West 68 (4): 1-7. 2018.Rita Widmaier and Malte-Ludolf Babin have done a valuable scholarly service for studies of the early modern European reception of China in collecting letters from Leibniz's extensive correspondence concerning China and translating them from the original Latin and French into German. This multi-lingual and chronologically organized edition gathers letters to and from Leibniz as well as supplementary texts composed between the years 1694 and 1716. It incorporates helpful clarificatory notes as wel…Read more
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585Heidegger’s Black Noteboooks: National Socialism. Antisemitism, and the History of BeingHeidegger-Jahrbuch 11 77-88. 2017.This chapter examines: (1) the Black Notebooks in the context of Heidegger's political engagement on behalf of the National Socialist regime and his ambivalence toward some but not all of its political beliefs and tactics; (2) his limited "critique" of vulgar National Socialism and its biologically based racism for the sake of his own ethnocentric vision of the historical uniqueness of the German people and Germany's central role in Europe as a contested site situated between West and East, tech…Read more
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445Exzentrische Tiere und die Selbstüberwindung des Naturalismus: Dilthey, Plessner, GreneIn Rainer Adolphi, Andrzej Gniazdowski & Zdzisław Krasnodębski (eds.), Philosophische Anthropologie zwischen Soziologie und Geschichtsphilosophie, Bautz-verlag. pp. 369-387. 2018.In diesem Aufsatz, werde ich die Frage des Naturalismus in Plessners Philosophie des organischen Lebens und seiner amerikanischen Rezeption, in besonders die philosophischen-biologischen Schriften von Marjorie Grene, untersuchen. Die amerikanische Philosophin Grene war die Hauptvertreterin Plessners im Englischen Sprachraum in 20sten Jahrhundert, die Plessners anthropologischen Argumentation in ihren Schriften zur Philosophie der Biologie aufgenommen und verwendet hat. Grene kritisierte in ihren…Read more
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Ansprechen und Auseinandersetzung: Heidegger und die Frage nach der Vereinzelung von DaseinExistentia 10 (1-4): 113-122. 2000.
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25Questioning Practice: Heidegger, Historicity, and the Hermeneutics of FacticityPhilosophy Today 44 (Supplement): 150-159. 2000.
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Republican VisionsIn John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.This article examines republican conception of political theory in Europe during the early modern period. It explains that there were two distinct kinds of republican political theory. One was Roman in origin and the other was Greek which valued the natural ordering of the state made possible by the regulation of wealth. The article discusses republicanism in Italy and suggests that the battle between Rome and Greece defined the development of republican political theory throughout the early-mod…Read more
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717Against Liberty: Adorno, Levinas, and the Pathologies of FreedomTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 59 (131): 64-83. 2012.Adorno and Levinas argue from distinct yet intersecting perspectives that there are pathological forms of freedom, formed by systems of power and economic exchange, which legitimate the neglect, exploitation and domination of others. In this paper, I examine how the works of Adorno and Levinas assist in diagnosing the aporias of liberty in contemporary capitalist societies by providing critical models and strategies for confronting present discourses and systems of freedom that perpetuate unfree…Read more
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362Overcoming Naturalism from Within: Dilthey, Nature, and the Human SciencesIn Babette E. Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science, De Gruyter. pp. 89-108. 2017.
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634Onto-Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Nature in The YijingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (3): 335-338. 2011.
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21Rethinking Facticity (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2008._Examines the historical context and contemporary relevance of facticity._
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14Between Levinas and Heidegger (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2014._Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues._
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420Naturalism and Anti-Naturalism in NietzscheArchiwum Historii Filozofii I Myśli Społecznej 58. 2013.Nietzsche has been associated with naturalism due to his arguments that morality, religion, metaphysics, and consciousness are products of natural biological organisms and ultimately natural phenomena. The subject and its mental life are only comprehensible in relation to natural desires, drives, impulses, and instincts. I argue that such typical naturalizing tendencies do not exhaust Nietzsche’s project, since they occur in the context of his critique of “nature” and metaphysical, speculative, …Read more
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713Chung‐Ying Cheng: Creativity, Onto‐Generative Hermeneutics, and the YijingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 43 (1-2): 124-135. 2016.The hermeneutical dimensions of Chinese philosophy from the Changes of Zhou through its Confucian, Daoist, and contemporary developments have been a creative inspirational source and guiding intellectual thread in the thought of Chung-ying Cheng. Cheng's extensive engagement with the Classic of Changes, its role in the formation of the Chinese philosophical tradition and its comparative interconnections with occidental philosophies, has disclosed its deep hermeneutical orientation. The Yijing en…Read more
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303Review of Kwok-Ying Lau, Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017 (09.13): 1-4. 2017.This book, the fruition of twenty years of research and writing about phenomenology, carefully and insightfully traces the complex historical relations between phenomenology and non-Western thought over the last century. It also offers a critical diagnosis of the contemporary impediments to, and possibilities for, intercultural philosophy...
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155Schleiermacher, Hermenevtika In NeizrekljivoPhainomena 37 49-62. 2001.This essay is about the significance of communication and the ineffable for the question of hermeneutics. I argue that Friedrich Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics needs to be interpreted in the context of his early religious thought and that the play between communication and what resists and withdraws from communication provides an alternative conception of the tasks of hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not only constituted by what is said and what is left unsaid but, further, by that which is unsayabl…Read more
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Traumatic Life: Violence, Pain, and Responsiveness in HeideggerIn Kristen Brown & Bettina Bergo (eds.), The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Suny Press. 2009.
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41Revisiting the Dialectic of Environment: Nature as Ideology and Ethics in Adorno and the Frankfurt SchoolTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2011 (155): 105-126. 2011.As a contribution to a critical yet responsive materialist ethics of environments and animals, I reexamine the significance of nature and animals in the critical social theory of Theodor Adorno. In response to the anthropocentric primacy of intersubjective discourse and recognition in recent figures associated with the Frankfurt School, such as Habermas and Honneth, I argue for the ecological import of the aporetic dialectic of nature and society diagnosed in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of…Read more
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