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261Naturalism 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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260Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing LifeRoutledge. 2020.Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. This book traces early Daoist depictions of practices of embodied emptying and forgetting and communicative strategies of undoing the fixations of words, things, and the embodied self. These are aspects of an ethics of embracing plainness and simplicity, nourishing the asymmetrically …Read more
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238Self-Reflection, Interpretation, and Historical Life in DiltheyIn Hans-Ulrich Lessing, Rudolf A. Makkreel & Riccardo Pozzo (eds.), Recent Contributions to Dilthey’s Philosophy of the Human Sciences, . 2011.
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234Reorienting Hermeneutics: Makkreel on Orientation and JudgmentResearch in Phenomenology 47 (1): 134-141. 2017.
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205Adorno’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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203Language, Nature, and the Self: The Feeling of Life in Kant and DiltheyIn Frank Schalow and Richard VelkleyVelkley (ed.), The Linguistic Dimension of Kant's Thought: Historical and Critical Essays, Northwestern University Press. pp. 263-287. 2014.
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203Life and WorldIn Hans-Helmuth Gander Jeff Malpas (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, . 2015.
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202Hiding the world in the world: Uneven discourses on the zhuangziJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (3). 2005.
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193Muller, 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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187The Complicity of the Ethical: Causality, Karma, and Violence in Buddhism and LevinasIn Levinas and Asian Thought, Duquesne University Press. pp. 99-114. 2013.
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159Biological and Historical Life: Heidegger between Levinas and DiltheyIn S. Campbell & P. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 15. 2013.
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150Revisiting 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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148Schleiermacher, 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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125Disturbing Truth: Art, Finitude, and the Human Sciences in DiltheyTheory@Buffalo 11 121-142. 2007.
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85Responding to Heaven and Earth: Daoism, Heidegger, and EcologyEnvironmental Philosophy 1 (2): 65-74. 2004.Although the words “nature” and “ecology” have to be qualified in discussing either Daoism or Heidegger, the author argues that a different and potentially helpful approach to questions of nature, ecology, and environmental ethics can be articulated from the works of Martin Heidegger and the early Daoist philosophers Laozi (Lao-Tzu) and Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu). Despite very different cultural contexts and philosophical strategies, they bring into play the spontaneity and event-character of nature …Read more
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73Rethinking Facticity (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2008._Examines the historical context and contemporary relevance of facticity._
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68Review of Lin ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (3). 2009.
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67Presenting a comprehensive portrayal of the reading of Chinese and Buddhist philosophy in early 20th-century German thought, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in early Twentieth-Century German Thought examines the implications of these readings for contemporary issues in comparative and intercultural philosophy. Through a series of case studies from the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Eric Nelson focuses on the reception and uses of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in German philosophy…Read more
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67Heidegger and Carnap: Disagreeing about nothing?In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 2--151. 2013.
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60Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom (introduction)Bloomsbury. 2023.What did Heidegger learn and fail to learn from Laozi and Zhuangzi? This book reconstructs Heidegger's philosophy through its engagement with Daoist and Asian philosophy and offers a Daoist transformation of Heidegger on things, nothingness, and freedom.
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53Linguistic strategies in daoist zhuangzi and Chan buddhism: The other way of speakingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (4). 2005.
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52Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature in AdornoIn Jerome Carroll, Steve Giles & Maike Oergel (eds.), Aesthetics and modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School, Peter Lang. 2008.In response to Jürgen Habermas’s critical assessment of the import of Theodor Adorno’s aesthetics, I revisit Adorno’s aesthetics in the context of the question of whether and to what extent there can be an aesthetics of nature, and the potential ethical and social-political significance of such an aesthetics.
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50Questioning Practice: Heidegger, Historicity, and the Hermeneutics of FacticityPhilosophy Today 44 (Supplement): 150-159. 2000.
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48Levinas and Early Confucian Ethics: Religion, Rituality, and the Sources of MoralityLevinas Studies 4 177-207. 2009.
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48Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays (introduction) (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.In this wide-ranging and authoritative volume, leading scholars engage with the philosophy and writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, a key figure in nineteenth-century thought. Their chapters cover his innovative philosophical strategies and explore how they can be understood in relation to their historical situation, as well as presenting incisive interpretations of Dilthey's arguments, including their development, their content, and their influence on later thought. A key focus is on how Dilthey's work…Read more
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46Schopenhauer, Existential Negativity, and Buddhist NothingnessJournal of Chinese Philosophy 49 (1): 83-96. 2022.Hegel remarked in his discussion of the nothing in the Science of Logic that: “It is well known that in oriental systems, and essentially in Buddhism, nothing, or the void, is the absolute principle.” Schopenhauer commented in a discussion of the joy of death in The World as Will and Representation: “The existence which we know he willingly gives up: what he gets instead of it is in our eyes nothing, because our existence is, with reference to that, nothing. The Buddhist faith calls it Nirvana, …Read more
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