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34The Frankfurt school in exile (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (3): 406-407. 2010.Wheatland intends in this work to demythologize the "Frankfurt school" and answer a lacuna by providing a detailed social history of its American exile and reception. He undertakes the first task by distinguishing the "Horkheimer circle" from later portrayals of the continuity and homogeneity of their thought, the mystique of theorizing in the "splendid isolation" of alienated exile, and their significance for the radical politics of the 1960s. Although it is doubtful that many philosophers and …Read more
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267Introduction: Intersections between Chinese and Western PhilosophiesJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (S1): 5-9. 2012.
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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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1311Religious Crisis, Ethical Life, and Kierkegaard’s Critique of ChristendomActa Kierkegaardiana 4 170-186. 2009.
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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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913Impure Phenomenology: Dilthey, Epistemology, and the Task of Interpretive PsychologyStudia Phaenomenologica 10 19-44. 2010.Responding to critiques of Dilthey’s interpretive psychology, I revisit its relation with epistemology and the human sciences. Rather than reducing knowledge to psychology and psychology to subjective understanding, Dilthey articulated the epistemic worth of a psychology involving (1) an impure phenomenology of embodied, historically-situated, and worldly consciousness as individually lived yet complicit with its naturally and socially constituted contexts, (2) experience- and communication-orie…Read more
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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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125Disturbing Truth: Art, Finitude, and the Human Sciences in DiltheyTheory@Buffalo 11 121-142. 2007.
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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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282Wilhelm 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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430Leibniz and China: Religion, Hermeneutics, and EnlightenmentReligion in the Age of Enlightenment (RAE) 1. 2009.
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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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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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231Reorienting Hermeneutics: Makkreel on Orientation and JudgmentResearch in Phenomenology 47 (1): 134-141. 2017.
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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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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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14Demystifying Experience: nothingness and sacredness in heidegger and chan buddhismAngelaki 17 (3): 65-74. 2012.
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14Opening 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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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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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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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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1215Schleiermacher 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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1534Heidegger 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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