Eric S. Nelson

Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Born in Chicago, he is the author of Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom (Bloomsbury, 2023), Daoism and Environmental Philosophy (Routledge, 2020), Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other (SUNY Press, 2020), and Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought (Bloomsbury, 2017). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Chinese, German, Jewish, and intercultural philosophy. He edited Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and co-edited The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2013/2016), Between Levinas and Heidegger (SUNY Press, 2014), Rethinking Facticity (SUNY Press, 2008), Anthropologie und Geschichte: Studien zu Wilhelm Dilthey (Königshausen & Neumann, 2013), and Addressing Levinas (Northwestern University Press, 2005).