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204Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly by Fabian Freyenhagen (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (2): 343-344. 2015.
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23Levinas and Kierkegaard: The Akedah, the Dao, and Aporetic EthicsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 40 (1): 164-184. 2013.In this article, Kierkegaard's depiction of the teleological suspension of the ethical is contrasted with Levinas's articulation of the emergence of the ethical in the Akedah narrative drawing on Jewish, Christian, and Chinese philosophical and religious perspectives. The narrative of Abraham's binding of Isaac illustrates both the distance and nearness between Kierkegaard and Levinas. Both realize that the encounter with God is a traumatic one that cannot be defined, categorized, or sublimated …Read more
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1Traumatic Origins: History, Genealogy, and Violence in Heidegger and NietzscheIn Holger Zaborowski Alfred Denker Babette Babich (ed.), Heidegger and Nietzsche, Rodopi. pp. 379-390. 2012.
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394Interpreting PracticeIdealistic Studies 38 (1-2): 105-122. 2008.This paper explores Dilthey’s radical transformation of epistemology and the human sciences through his projects of a critique of historically embodied reason and his hermeneutics of historically mediated life. Answering criticisms that Dilthey overly depends on epistemology, I show how for Dilthey neither philosophy nor the human sciences should be reduced to their theoretical, epistemological, or cognitive dimensions. Dilthey approaches both immediate knowing (Wissen) and theoretical knowledge…Read more
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12Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (Review) (review)China Review International 13 (2): 432-434. 2006.
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1522Heidegger and Dilthey: Language, History, and HermeneuticsIn Megan Altman Hans Pedersen (ed.), Horizons of Authenticity in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Moral Psychology, Springer. pp. 109-128. 2014.The hermeneutical tradition represented by Yorck, Heidegger, and Gadamer has distrusted Dilthey as suffering from the two sins of modernism: scientific “positivism” and individualistic and aesthetic “romanticism.” On the one hand, Dilthey’s epistemology is deemed scientistic in accepting the priority of the empirical, the ontic, and consequently scientific inquiry into the physical, biological, and human worlds; on the other hand, his personalist ethos and Goethean humanism, and his pluralistic …Read more
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1202Schleiermacher on Language, Religious Feeling, and the IneffableEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2): 297-312. 2004.This paper is about the relevance of the ineffable and the singular to hermeneutics. I respond to standard criticisms of Friedrich Schleiermacher by Karl Barth and Hans-Georg Gadamer in order to clarify his understanding of language, interpretation, and religion. Schleiermacher’s “indicative hermeneutics” is developed in the context of the ethical significance of communication and the ineffable. The notion of trace is employed in order to interpret the paradox of speaking about that which cannot…Read more
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Priestly Power and Damaged Life in Nietzsche and AdornoIn Andreas Urs Sommer (ed.), Nietzsche: Philosoph der Kultur(en)? / Philosopher of Culture?, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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1Faith and Knowledge: Karl Jaspers on Communication and the EncompassingExistentia 13 (3-4): 207-218. 2003.
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719Moral and Political Prudence in KantInternational Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 305-319. 2004.This paper challenges the standard view that Kant ignored the role of prudence in moral life by arguing that there are two notions of prudence at work in his moral and political thought. First, prudence is ordinarily understood as a technical imperative of skill that consists in reasoning about the means to achieve a particular conditional end. Second, prudence functions as a secondary form of practical thought that plays a significant role in the development of applied moral and political judgm…Read more
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275The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (1): 113-115. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 42.1 (2004) 113-115 [Access article in PDF] Wilhelm Dilthey. The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Edited with an Introduction by Rudolf A. Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp xiii + 399. Cloth $55.00. The first complete English translation of Wilhelm Dilthey's (1833-1911) most important mature work—a seminal work for hermeneutics, phe…Read more
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917Language and emptiness in Chan buddhism and the early HeideggerJournal of Chinese Philosophy 37 (3): 472-492. 2010.
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19The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, and now also one of the most contentious as revelations of the extent of his Nazism continue to surface. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative…Read more
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346Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of PhilosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (S1): 10-30. 2012.I explore how Heidegger and his successors interpret philosophy as an Occidental enterprise based on a particular understanding of history. In contrast to the dominant monistic paradigm, I return to the plural thinking of Dilthey and Misch, who interpret philosophy as a European and a global phenomenon. This reflects Dilthey's pluralistic understanding of historical life. Misch developed Dilthey's insight by demonstrating the multiple origins of philosophy as critical life‐reflection in its Gree…Read more
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1006The Human and the Inhuman: Ethics and Religion in the zhuangziJournal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (S1): 723-739. 2014.One critique of the early Daoist texts associated with Laozi and Zhuangzi is that they neglect the human and lack a proper sense of ethical personhood in maintaining the primacy of an impersonal dehumanizing “way.” This article offers a reconsideration of the appropriateness of such negative evaluations by exploring whether and to what extent the ethical sensibility unfolded in the Zhuangzi is aporetic, naturalistic, and/or religious. As an ethos of cultivating life and free and easy wandering b…Read more
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988Generativities: Western Philosophy, Chinese Painting, and the YijingOrbis Idearum 1 (1). 2013.Western philosophy has been defined through the exclusion of non-Western forms of thought as non-philo-sophical. In this paper, I place the notion of what is “properly” philosophy into question by contrasting the essence/appearance paradigm governing Western metaphysics and its deconstructive critics with the more fluid, dynamic, and participatory forms of encountering and performatively enacting the world that are articulated in Chinese thinking and made apparent in Chinese painting. In this herm…Read more
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256Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryŏp (review)Philosophy East and West 66 (3): 1049-1051. 2016.Kim Iryŏp was raised and initially educated in a devout Methodist Christian environment under the strict guidance of her fideistic pastor father and her mother, who believed in female education. Both parents died while she was in her teens, and she questioned her Christian faith at an early age. She was one of the first Korean women to pursue higher education in Korea and Japan. Kim became a prolific poet and essayist, her writings engaging cultural and social issues, and a leading figure of the…Read more
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51Linguistic strategies in daoist zhuangzi and Chan buddhism: The other way of speakingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (4). 2005.
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1228Dilthey, Heidegger und die Hermeneutik des faktischen LebensIn Scholtz Gunter (ed.), Diltheys Werk und die Wissenschaften, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 97-109. 2013.
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1353ĐẠO ĐỨC, NGHIỆP VÀ SỰ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNGIn PHẬT GIÁO VỀ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNG VÀ THAY ĐỔI XÃ HỘI, . pp. 19-31. 2014.
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26Addressing Levinas (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2005.At a time of great and increasing interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this volume draws readers into what Levinas described as "philosophy itself"--"a discourse always addressed to another." Thus the philosopher himself provides the thread that runs through these essays on his writings, one guided by the importance of the fact of being addressed--the significance of the Saying much more than the Said. The authors, leading Levinas scholars and interpreters from across the globe, explore the…Read more
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7Anthropologie und Geschichte. Studien zu Wilhelm Dilthey aus Anlass seines 100. Todestages (edited book)Königshausen & Neumann. 2013.
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686Kant and china: Aesthetics, race, and natureJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (4): 509-525. 2011.
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1074The yijing and philosophy: From Leibniz to DerridaJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (3): 377-396. 2011.
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