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9Individuation and Self-Awareness in Wilhelm DiltheyIn Saulius Geniusas (ed.), Varieties of Self-Awareness: New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 135-152. 2023.Philosophy remains ensnared between reifying the isolated individual subject and reducing it to the structuring forces of nature and society. Neither strategy appears suitable to the first-person participant perspective of the lived-experience of being a finite, conditional self within the world. This self is experienced as embodied, social, and other-dependent, and as environmentally and perspectivally “my own” such that it potentially resists, rather than reproducing, structural forces. In thi…Read more
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8Levinas and Early Confucian Ethics: Religion, Rituality, and the Sources of MoralityLevinas Studies 4 177-207. 2009.
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8Anthropologie und Geschichte. Studien zu Wilhelm Dilthey aus Anlass seines 100. Todestages (edited book)Königshausen & Neumann. 2013.
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6IntroductionIn John E. Drabinski & Eric Sean Nelson (eds.), Between Levinas and Heidegger, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-12. 2014.
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5Intercultural Difference and Intercultural Critique: A Reply to Jean‐Yves HeurtebiseJournal of Chinese Philosophy 47 (1-2): 130-134. 2020.Journal of Chinese Philosophy, EarlyView.
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5The Human and the Inhuman: Ethics and Religion in the ZhuangziJournal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (5): 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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5European and Chinese philosophy: origins and intersections (edited book)Wiley. 2013.The Journal of Chinese Philosophy initiates this volume on the origins of philosophy and their relations in philosophical languages, be it Chinese or Greek or European as not merely derived from the Greek. Given this understanding we see how a philosophical issue could be discussed significantly from both the European-Western position and the Chinese perspective. Each position and perspective embodies a different historicity and viewpoint as experienced in the vision and pursuit of reality and h…Read more
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5Intersections Between Chinese and Western PhilosophiesJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (5): 5-9. 2012.
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4Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of PhilosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (5): 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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1Steven Galt Crowell, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (3): 171-173. 2003.
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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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1Faith and Knowledge: Karl Jaspers on Communication and the EncompassingExistentia 13 (3-4): 207-218. 2003.
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Heidegger and the Ethics of FacticityIn François Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), Rethinking Facticity, Suny Press. 2008.
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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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Self-Awareness and Nothingness: Wang Yangming, Wang Ji, and Existential ConfucianismIn Kevin Aho, Megan Altman & Hans Pedersen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism, Routledge. 2024.
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Heidegger and Dilthey: A difference in interpretationIn Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 129. 2013.
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Liberalizing second nature : McDowell, Dilthey, and the sociality of reasonIn Daniel Martin Feige & Thomas J. Spiegel (eds.), McDowell and the hermeneutic tradition, Routledge. 2023.
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Emptying ecology : Chan Buddhist antinomianism and environmental ethicsIn Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch & Mario Wenning (eds.), Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature, Time, Responsibility, Routledge. 2022.
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Time, History, and Facticity in Dilthey and HeideggerDissertation, Emory University. 2001.This dissertation is an investigation of the questions of time, history, and facticity in Dilthey and Heidegger. It is an exploration of the contextual character of experience and the scope and limits of understanding and interpretation. In particular, this work considers their historical and temporal character and relation to facticity. Facticity is that which escapes and resists interpretation, narration, and understanding. In Heidegger's language, facticity indicates the "thrownness" and "unc…Read more
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Schleiermacher and romanticismIn Hermann Patsch, Hans Dierkes, Terrence N. Tice & Wolfgang Virmond (eds.), Schleiermacher, Romanticism, and the Critical Arts: A Festschrift in Honor of Hermann Patsch, Edwin Mellen Press. 2008.
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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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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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