• Dieses einführende Kapitel des Buches Auf dem Weg zu einer Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens: Neue Diskussionen und interdisziplinäre Sichtweisen bietet einen Überblick über einen multidisziplinären, multitheoretischen und transkulturellen Polylog zwischen sechs Autorinnen und Autoren aus drei Kontinenten. Ziel dieses Diskurses ist es, besonders innovative Perspektiven vorzustellen und neue Grenzgebiete für die Entwicklung philosophischer Reflexionen und wissenschaftlicher Grundlagen für die Eme…Read more
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    [221 pages] Wie die sechs Äste eines Schneekristalls in regelmäßigen Proportionen auf ihr gemeinsames Zentrum zulaufen, so deuten die sechs Beiträge dieses Buches eine zukünftige Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens an. In diesem Sinne stellt diese Aufsatzsammlung einen multidisziplinären und transkulturellen Polylog renommierter Autoren aus drei Kontinenten dar, der darauf abzielt, höchst innovative Perspektiven zu etablieren und neue Grenzbereiche für die Entwicklung philosophischer Reflexionen u…Read more
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    Resonances of the Silk Roads: The Curation, Background, and Context of the New Collection of Musical Instruments at the Yungang Academy
    with David Bartosch, Guilin Liu, Kunyu Zhao, Lixia Ma, and Ruozhi Wang
    Herança – History, Heritage and Culture Journal 8 (4). 2025.
    This study aims to provide a window into current developments in curatorial practice and museum studies regarding a multicultural topic within China. Our case concerns a new kind of collection of musical instruments and its unique context in a leading archaeological and cultural heritage institution. It consists of 203 traditional musical instruments, primarily of more recent origin, from all around the world with a primary focus on Eurasia. It is the only collection of this scope and theme in C…Read more
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    We explore the topic of self-translation in migration through the biography of Fritz A. Kuttner, a German Jewish economist who became a musicologist during the years he spent in his native country just before he managed to escape from the Nazis. His interest in musicology intensified as an immigrant in Shanghai from 1939 to 1949, where he also studied pre-modern Chinese musical culture. After his emigration and becoming a US citizen, Kuttner emerged as a pioneer in this new field. We trace Kuttn…Read more
  • In this transdisciplinary investigation, we focus on the invention and development of gunpowder. We aim to answer the questions regarding (1) the inspiration behind the invention, including historical, mythological, and intellectual backgrounds, (2) how it came about in concreto, and (3) its impact on the history of science in China. We argue that the invention has to be viewed in a broader context and that various factors come into play with regard to the above questions. The discussion starts …Read more
  • This first contribution to the special issue “Understanding Chinese Culture in the World” represents a philosophical proem regarding the format and general aim of the Young Experts Symposium 2022 (YES 2022), which was held online at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai (China) and provided a platform for topics related to classical, modern, futuristic, and comparative perspectives on Chinese culture—across generations, cultures, and disciplines. Furthermore, it outlines the basic content of the six…Read more
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    20世纪初是德语世界正式出版关于中国哲学史著作的起点。1909—1924年之间德语世界出版了若干关于中国哲学史的论文和专著,通过调查作者们的教育背景和研究成果,以及其代表作的写作背景、内容框架及其影响,可以勾勒出这一时期德语学界中国哲学研究的概况。从分析当时德语学界对中国哲学的认识范围和中国哲学史框架构建的一般情况,可以看出欧洲对中国哲学和哲学史研究的一些核心问题所在。前现代中国哲学史在德语地区接纳和传播的过程与方式,这一至今德国与中国学界尚未涉足的空白领域,值得研究并填补。[The beginning of the twentieth century was the starting point for the production of works on the history of Chinese philosophy in the German-speaking world. Between 1909 and 1924, a number of essays and monographs on the history of Chinese philosophy were pub…Read more
  • [114 pages] This special issue “Understanding Chinese Culture in the World” represents contributions to the Young Experts Symposium 2022 (YES 2022). The event was held online at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai (China) and provided a platform for topics related to classical, modern, futuristic, and comparative perspectives on Chinese culture—across generations, cultures, and disciplines.
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    Introduction
    In David Bartosch, Attila Grandpierre & Bei Peng (eds.), Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views, Springer Nature. pp. 1-8. 2023.
    This introductory chapter to the book Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views provides an overview on a multidisciplinary, multitheoretical, and transcultural dialogue among six authors from three continents. The aim of this discourse is to establish highly innovative perspectives and to explore new frontiers for the development of philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, an integral ecology,…Read more
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    [186 pages] Just as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions to this book point toward a future philosophy of cosmic life. In this sense, this edited volume represents a multidisciplinary and transcultural polylogue of distinguished authors from three continents, which aims to establish highly innovative perspectives and open new frontiers of developing philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergen…Read more
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    本文通过对德国著名汉学家、翻译家卫礼贤的最后一部哲学论著《中国哲学导 论》(1929)的翻译和研究,整理归纳了卫礼贤对中国哲学的核心词“道”的五种不同译法, 深入剖析了他如何用“一词多译”的方法,对中国哲学史上不同文本、不同哲学家、不同时代 及不同思想维度中的“道”进行诠释。同时,本文以术语学(Terminologie)为研究方法,聚焦 于卫礼贤用来翻译“道”的几个德语哲学术语,并对这些词汇进行溯源。以此为切入点, 本文 分析了卫礼贤作为对中国哲学与德国哲学均有深刻理解的汉学家,有意识地从跨文化比较哲学 的角度出发,将“道”转换为德国哲学中与之相匹配的哲学概念,并将其介绍给德国思想界的 路径。重新审视卫礼贤对“道”的“一词多译”,在加强当今中外文化互鉴和中文著作外译方面 具有积极且重要的作用。[This contribution is based on the translation and study of the book Chinesische Philosophie: Eine Einführung (Chinese Philosophy: An Introduction, 1…Read more
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    The Human Body as the Singing Universe
    In David Bartosch, Attila Grandpierre & Bei Peng (eds.), Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views, Springer Nature. pp. 97-122. 2023.
    For millennia, the basic idea that there is a universal order that connects human beings and the universe has lived on in many cultures. This order has often been expressed in geometric or musical-harmonic terms. From Pythagoras to Kepler, universal scholars were firmly convinced that this order represented the primordial code of all things. This chapter explores a new interdisciplinary perspective that combines the fields of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), music theory, and Keplerian astron…Read more