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295The 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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375Heidegger, 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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1115The 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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1028Generativities: 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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298Reflections 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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57Linguistic strategies in daoist zhuangzi and Chan buddhism: The other way of speakingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (4). 2005.
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1301Dilthey, 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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1405ĐẠO ĐỨC, NGHIỆP VÀ SỰ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNGIn N. Từ (ed.), PHẬT GIÁO VỀ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNG VÀ THAY ĐỔI XÃ HỘI, . pp. 19-31. 2014.
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27Addressing 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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9Anthropologie und Geschichte. Studien zu Wilhelm Dilthey aus Anlass seines 100. Todestages (edited book)Königshausen & Neumann. 2013.
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726Kant and china: Aesthetics, race, and natureJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (4): 509-525. 2011.
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1172The yijing and philosophy: From Leibniz to DerridaJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (3): 377-396. 2011.
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Heidegger and the Ethics of FacticityIn François Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), Rethinking Facticity, State University of New York Press. 2008.
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1202Technology and the Way: Buber, Heidegger, and Lao‐Zhuang “Daoism”Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (3-4): 307-327. 2014.I consider the intertextuality between Chinese and Western thought by exploring how images, metaphors, and ideas from the texts associated with Zhuangzi and Laozi were appropriated in early twentieth-century German philosophy. This interest in “Lao-Zhuang Daoism” encompasses a diverse range of thinkers including Buber and Heidegger. I examine how the problematization of utility, usefulness, and “purposiveness” in Zhuangzi and Laozi becomes a key point for their German philosophical reception; ho…Read more
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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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750Questioning Dao: Skepticism, Mysticism, and Ethics in the ZhuangziInternational Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association 1 5-19. 2008.
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234Hiding the world in the world: Uneven discourses on the zhuangziJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (3). 2005.
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614China, Nature, and the Sublime in KantIn Stephen R. Palmquist (ed.), Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 333--348. 2010.
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837Naturalism and Anti-Naturalism in NietzscheArchives of the History of Philosophy and of Social Thought 58 213-227. 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 natu-ralizing 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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442Retrieving Phenomenology: Introduction to the Special Theme ES NelsonFrontiers of Philosophy in China 11 (3): 329-337. 2016.
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49Levinas and Early Confucian Ethics: Religion, Rituality, and the Sources of MoralityLevinas Studies 4 177-207. 2009.
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3108Hermeneutics: Schleiermacher and DiltheyIn Alan D. Schrift & Daniel W. Conway (eds.), History of Continental Philosophy: Volume 2; Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Revolutionary Responses to the Existing Order, Acumen Press. 2010.
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909The Question of Resentment in Nietzsche and Confucian EthicsTaiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 10 (1): 17-51. 2013.
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291Self-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, Frommann-holzboog Verlag. 2011.
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