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286Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume II: Understanding the Human World. Edited with Introduction by Rudolf A. Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 471-474 DOI 10.1007/s10746-011-9197-6 Authors Eric S. Nelson, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548 Journal Volume Volume 34 Journal Issue Volume 34, Number 4
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447Leibniz and China: Religion, Hermeneutics, and EnlightenmentReligion in the Age of Enlightenment (RAE) 1. 2009.
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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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12Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of HistoryIn John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson (ed.), Between Levinas and Heidegger, Suny. pp. 51-72. 2014.
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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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37Levinas and Adorno: Can there be an Ethics of Nature?In William Edelglass James Hatley & Christian Diehm (eds.), Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought, Duquesne University Press. pp. 109--133. 2012.
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237Reorienting Hermeneutics: Makkreel on Orientation and JudgmentResearch in Phenomenology 47 (1): 134-141. 2017.
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14Demystifying Experience: nothingness and sacredness in heidegger and chan buddhismAngelaki 17 (3): 65-74. 2012.
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18Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters, and: The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (review)Buddhist-Christian Studies 24 (1): 284-288. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Opening a Mountain: Kōans of the Zen Masters, and: The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen BuddhismEric Sean NelsonOpening a Mountain: Kōans of the Zen Masters. By Steven Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 200 pp.The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 322 pp.The Zen koan is mysterious to many and its significance remains disput…Read more
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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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207Adorno’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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24Levinas 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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12Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (Review) (review)China Review International 13 (2): 432-434. 2006.
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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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397Interpreting 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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1562Heidegger 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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1227Schleiermacher 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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1Faith and Knowledge: Karl Jaspers on Communication and the EncompassingExistentia 13 (3-4): 207-218. 2003.
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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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739Moral 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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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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283The 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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949Language and emptiness in Chan buddhism and the early HeideggerJournal of Chinese Philosophy 37 (3): 472-492. 2010.
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357Heidegger, 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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1057The 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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