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22Dōgen’s Texts: Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy? (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.This book addresses the question of how to properly handle Dōgen’s texts, a core issue that became critical during the Meiji period in which the philosophical appropriation of Dōgen became apparent inside and outside of the monastery. In present day Dōgen studies, most scholarship is informed by a number of factions representing Dōgen. The chapters herein address: the Zennist (j. zenjōka) emphasising practice, the Genzōnians (j. genzōka) shifting the attention to the close reading of Dōgen’s tex…Read more
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17Kyoto in Davos. Intercultural Readings of the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate (edited book)BRILL. 2024.The famous debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger of 1929 in Davos was set on a global stage and, yet, inherently Eurocentric. This volume explores how the hypothetical presence of the Kyoto school founder Nishida Kitarō would have overcome this limitation.
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6Pro Familia: Ethical-Philosophical Aspects of Sexuality EducationIn Markus Tiedemann (ed.), Philosophical Education Beyond the Classroom, J.b. Metzler. pp. 249-260. 2023.The article presents the sexuality education work of pro familia. Against the background of human rights, sexuality education is always to a high degree ethical-philosophical education. It is discussed with which methods and which attitude ethical questions are dealt with in sexuality education (youth) groups and how students, teachers and professionals can be sensitized for a boundary-preserving, self-determined handling of sexuality.
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6Dōgen’s Texts Expounded by the Kyoto School – Religious Commentary or Philosophical Interpretation?In Ralf Müller & George Wrisley (eds.), Dōgen’s Texts: Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy?, Springer Verlag. pp. 41-62. 2023.This chapter focuses on modern commentators close to or from the Kyoto school. According to Müller, there have been two approaches within the so-called Kyoto school regarding Dōgen's work. Initially, there were philosophically ambitious interpretations, such as those by Watsuji Tetsurō and Tanabe Hajime. They were ambitious insofar as they attempted to bridge the gap between philosophy and religion. However, from the 1940s onwards, these seminal works tended to recede into the background since t…Read more
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4Der Begriff der Gestalt als Paradigma in der modernen LinguistikZeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2019 (1): 63-86. 2019.Ernst Cassirer’s (1874–1945) lecture »Structuralism in Modern Linguistics«, given in 1945, not only represents a kind of late return to his intellectual origins in thetradition of Leibniz, Kant and Humboldt. It also provides a diagnosis of the importance of linguistics in his time. This diagnosis should prove far-sighted from the vantage point of both the history and philosophy of science. The thesis presented in this article is that for Cassirer, modern linguistics represents a scientific parad…Read more
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9Pro familia. Ethisch-philosophische Aspekte Sexueller BildungIn Markus Tiedemann (ed.), Außerschulische Lernorte, Erlebnispädagogik Und Philosophische Bildung, J.b. Metzler. pp. 267-279. 2021.Der Beitrag stellt die sexualpädagogische Arbeit von pro familia vor. Vor dem Hintergrund der Menschenrechte ist Sexuelle Bildung immer auch zu einem hohen Maß ethisch-philosophische Bildung. Besprochen wird, mit welchen Methoden und welcher Haltung ethische Fragestellungen in sexualpädagogischen Gruppen behandelt werden und wie Schüler*innen, Lehrkräfte und Fachkräfte für einen grenzwahrenden, selbstbestimmten Umgang mit Sexualität sensibilisiert werden können.
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10Review: Francois Jullien’s Living off Landscape, or the Unthought of in Reason : London/new York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 148 pages (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 7 (2): 176-182. 2020.François Jullien’s Living off Landscape, or the Unthought of in Reason,, is another outstanding work in a series of...
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31Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen (edited book)Springer. 2022.This book presents the first collection of essays on the philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru in a Western language. Ueda, the last living member of the Kyoto school, has fostered the East-West dialogue in all his works and has helped to open up the Western image of philosophy by engaging the Zen tradition. The book reflects this particular trait of Ueda’s philosophy, but it also covers all thematic fields of his writings. Contributions from both young and established scholars and experts from Japan, Eu…Read more
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10Kyōto in Davos. The Question of the Human from a Cross-Cultural Vantage PointJournal of Japanese Philosophy 7 117-124. 2021.The conference in a nutshell: philosophy in times of crises returned to a crisis in philosophy. The pandemic throws us back on our feet and makes us rethink the question raised at the Davos Disputation between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer in 1929: “What is a human being?” While both had agreed that the initial question was the crucial question to tackle, neither of them could put forth a solution to the question given that their own thought paths proved to have led them into a dead end an…Read more
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12The Philosophical Reception of Japanese Buddhism After 1868In Gereon Kopf (ed.), The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, Springer. pp. 155-203. 2016.In the writings of the Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Shinran 親鸞 we read: “I, Shinran, do not have a single disciple of my own”. Is he simply being modest? Does Shinran defy discipleship? Does he rule out the possibility of the reception of his thought? The answer to these questions is not clear; nevertheless, what we do know is that the reader of his writings is supposed to arrive at the Buddha’s original teaching. Shinran’s voluminous works, however, exhibit more than an introduction to, or simpl…Read more
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16Ernst Cassirer’s Concept of Philosophy in the Horizon of Forms of CultureProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 47 137-143. 2018.The present papers brings up Cassirer’s idea of philosophy through the few and scattered remarks that he makes about non-European traditions of thought. While Cassirer’s philosophy of culture theorizes symbolic functions through an examination of symbolic forms, he only implicitly talks about culture as such. However, since culture is the unity of symbolic forms and in and by itself a cultural form, culture is always related to other cultures. And hence, one culture is not the sole possible and …Read more
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Dōgen und religiöse ErfahrungIn Gerd Haeffner (ed.), Religiöse Erfahrung II: Interkulturelle Perspektiven, W. Kohlhammer Verlag. pp. 122-140. 2007.
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Watsuji’s Reading of Dōgen’s ShōbōgenzōIn James W. Heisig & Raquel Bouso (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6, . pp. 174-191. 2009.
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On Impermanency and Human MortalityIn Sarah A. Mattice, Geoffrey Ashton & Joshua P. Kimber (eds.), Comparative philosophy today and tomorrow: proceedings from the 2007 Uehiro CrossCurrents Philosophy Conference, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 40-57. 2009.
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Shobutsu shoso ha dōtoku nari – Watsuji Tetsurō no Dōgen tetsugakuThe Proceedings of the 68th Annual Convention of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies 84 (4): 204-205. 2010.
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›Dōgen spricht auch von…‹. Zitate des Zen-Patriarchen in Nishidas PhilosophieIn Rolf Elberfeld & Yoko Arisaka (eds.), Kitaro Nishida in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. pp. 203-238. 2014.
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Inoue Enryō und die Entdeckung von Sprache im Zen – Über Prolegomena zur Philosophie der Zen-Schule von 1893In Raji Steineck (ed.), Begriff und Bild der modernen japanischen Philosophie, Frommann-holzboog. pp. 63-105. 2014.
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Die Artikulation des Schweigens in der Sprache. Zum Sprachdenken des Philosophen Ueda ShizuteruAsiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 2 (69): 391-417. 2015.
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「応答の心が交差する小径」としての〈感応道交〉 道元のフェミニズム的解釈」 [The interpretation of kannō dōkō – Dōgen from a feminist point of view]『日本哲学史研究』Research Bulletin of Japanese Philosophy. 2015.
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Philosophy and the practice of reflexivity. On Dōgen’s discourse about Buddha-natureIn Raji C. Steineck (ed.), Concepts of Philosophy, Brill. pp. 545-576. 2018.
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Der Begriff der Gestalt in der modernen Linguistik. Ernst Cassirer im Gespräch mit Roman JakobsonZeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 1 (13): 63-86. 2019.
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The Philosophical Reception of Japanese Buddhism After 1868In Gereon Kopf (ed.), The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, Springer. pp. 155-204. 2016.In the writings of the Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Shinran 親鸞 (1173–1263) we read: “I, Shinran, do not have a single disciple of my own” (SZ Supplement: 10; Saitō 2010: 242; Yuien 1996: 6). Is he simply being modest? Does Shinran defy discipleship? Does he rule out the possibility of the reception of his thought? The answer to these questions is not clear; nevertheless, what we do know is that the reader of his writings is supposed to arrive at the Buddha’s original teaching. Shinran’s voluminou…Read more
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Zur Überlieferung von Philosophie durch Übersetzung [On the Transmission of Philosophy Through Translation]Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie. forthcoming.
Humboldt University, Berlin
PhD, 2010
Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Japanese Philosophy |
Aesthetics and Culture |
Ontology |
20th Century Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Japanese Philosophy |
Translation |
Ontology |
Philosophy of Language |
Japanese Zen Buddhism |