The Question of the Human. Revisiting the Davos Disputations from a Cross-Cultural Vantage Point.

Co-edited by Ralf Müller, Tobias Enders and Domenico Schneider (Technische Universität Braunschweig)

Studies in Intercultural Philosophy, Brill Publishers.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Ralf Müller 

I. Recontextualizing the Davos Debate

1. John C. Maraldo: A Forgotten Dimension of Human Be-ing: Our Relation to (Other) Animals

2. Michel Dalissier: Revisiting the Debate: Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos

3. Esther Oluffa Pedersen: The Davos Debate, Pure Philosophy and Normativity. Thinking with the History of Philosophy

4. Domenico Schneider: Heidegger and Cassirer on Schematism. Reflections on an Intercultural Philosophy

5. Tobias Endres: Anthropology as Intercultural Philosophy of Culture

II. Nishida in Davos:

6. Francesca Greco: Absolute Self-Contradictory Human Existence: Nishida in Davos

7. Rossella Lupacchini: Cassirer and Nishida – Mathematical Crosscurrents  in their Philosophical Paths

8. John W.M. Krummel: Lask, Heidegger, and Nishida: From Meaning as Object to Horizon and Place

9. YEUNG Tak-lap: Negative-monistic and positive-dualistic interpretations of Kant: a transcultural debate between Cassirer, Heidegger, Nishida and Mou

10. Ingmar Meland: From the Problem of Meaning to Basic Phenomena and Back Again. Cassirer and Nishida on the Origin of Self and World

11. Dennis Stromback: The Self-Aware Individual and the Kyoto School’s Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology

III. German and Japanese cross-roads:

12. Higaki Tatsuya: The Davos Debate and Japanese Philosophy: Welt-Schema and Einbildungskraft in Tanabe and Miki

13. Sebastian Hüsch: From despair to authentic existence – Kierkegaard’s anthropology of despair in the light of Nishitani’s thought

14. Steve Lofts: Cassirer, Heidegger, and Miki – The Ladder of the Imagination

15. Rossa Ó Muireartaigh: Now, Ever and After: Contrasting the Pure Lands of D.T. Suzuki and Tanabe Hajime (and what this has to tell us about philosophical anthropology)

16. Takushi Odagiri: Homo Faber – A Philosophical Dialogue of Nishida and Miki

17. Hans Peter Liederbach: Anti-Cartesianism East and West: Watsuji and Heidegger on the Possibility of Significant Dealing with Entities

18. Fernando Wirtz: Miki and the Myth of Humanism

Übersetzung und Überlieferung. Philosophiegeschichte in translatorischer Perspektive.

Co-edited by Ralf Müller, Aurelio Calderon and Xenia Wenzel

Beiheft 5, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie.

Table of Contents

Die Herausgeber: Editorial. Überlieferung und Übersetzung.

1. James Garrison Interpretation – nicht Übersetzung – und philosophische Traditionen. Methodologische Betrachtungen.

2.  John C. Maraldo: Zur Bestimmung der japanischen Philosophie als Über-Setzung 

3. Fernando Wirtz: Übersetzung und Tradition bei Kiyoshi Miki

4. Jens Heise: Der Mensch als offene Frage – Anmerkungen zur Übersetzung von „ningen“ in Watsujis Ethik

5. Miquel Siguan: Englisch und die Sprache der Wissenschaft. Über die Einheit der Sprache und die Pluralität der Sprachen

6. Thomas Gilbhard: Randbemerkungen zur humanistischen Reflexion auf Sprache und Übersetzung in der Philosophie der Renaissance

7. Xenia Wenzel: Übersetzung feministischer Philosophie als wissenschaftstheoretisches und wissenschaftssoziologisches Problem

8. Aurelio Calderón: Die inhärente Unübersetzbarkeit der Philosophie. Der Fall Heidegger

Dōgen’s Texts: Manifesting Philosophy and/as/of Religion?

Table of contents of edited volumes in review and in press

Co-edited by Ralf Müller and George Wrisley (University of North Georgia)

Sophos Series, Springer.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Ralf Müller

1. Steve Heine: A Critical History of Interpretations of an Ambiguous Shōbōgenzō Sentence

2. Aldo Tollini: Dōgen and the Buddhist Way

3. George Wrisley: Dōgen as Philosopher, Dōgen’s Philosophical Zen.

4. Ralf Müller: Incorporating Dōgen as philosopher? The example of Nishida Kitarō.

5. Eitan Bolokan: Interpretive Sensibilities in Dōgen’s “Genjōkōan”. Negotiating the Path Between Textual Authority and Creativeness

6. Russell Guilbault: Dōgen as Philosopher, Metaphysician, and Metaethicist.

7. Andrei Van der Braak: Philosopher, Religious Thinker or Theologian?: Engaging Dōgen beyond Zen Modernism

8. Laurentiu Andrei: The Practice of Time and the Time of Practice. Dōgen and Marcus-Aurelius on Impermanence and Self

9. Laura Specker: Do Not Lose the Rice: Dōgen Through the Eyes of Contemporary Western Zen Women 

10. Leesa S Davis Deakin: Engaging with Dōgen’s texts: the nonduality of philosophy and religion

11. Zuzana Kubovčáková: Uji: Analysis of Dōgen’s Language Style as the Formation Ground for his Philosophy

12. Raji Steineck: From Uji to Being-time (and Back). Translating Dōgen into Philosophy

13. Felipe Cuervo: On Flowing While Being. The (Mereo)Logical Structure of Dōgen’s Conception of Time

14. Rein Raud: Thinking the Now: Dōgen’s Thought between Philosophy and Praxis

Publikationen | Publications

Edierte Bücher | Edited Books

  1. based on the previous international online-workshop »Dōgen as Philosopher« (January 2021): Dōgen’s Texts: Manifesting Philosophy and/as/of Religion? Co-edited by Ralf Müller and George Wrisley (University of North Georgia), (manuscript submitted for review), Sophos Series, Springer (forthcoming in 2023).
  2. based on the previous international workshop »Überlieferung und Übersetzung« (January 2018): Übersetzung und Überlieferung. Philosophiegeschichte in translatorischer Perspektive. Co-edited by Ralf Müller, Aurelio Calderon and Xenia Wenzel, (internally peer reviewed), Beiheft 5, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (forthcoming in 2023).
  3. based on the previous international online-conference »Kyoto in Davos« (September 2020): The Question of the Human. Revisiting the Davos Disputations from a Cross-Cultural Vantage Point. Co-edited by Ralf Müller, Tobias Enders and Domenico Schneider (Technische Universität Braunschweig), (manuscript in review), Studies in Intercultural Philosophy, Brill Publishers (forthcoming in 2023).
  1. Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru. Thoughts about Language, Experience and Zen co-edited with Raquel Bouso (Barcelona, Catalonia) and Adam Loughnane (Cork, Ireland), Springer Tetsugaku Series (edited by K. Noe, C.Y. Cheung and W.K. Lam), Springer, 2022.
  2. Morphologie als Paradigma in den Wissenschaften.
    [Morphology as Paradigm in the Sciences] co-edited with Research Network “Morphology as Scientific Paradigm”, Beiheft 3, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2022, pp. 380.

Monographien | Monographs

  1. Spiel der Kultur/en. Der neue Asiensaal [Play of Culture/s. The new Asia Haal] co-authored with Jeanne Egloff, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, Sankt Gallen, FormatOst, 2019, pp. 156.
  1. Dōgens Sprachdenken. Historische und symboltheoretische Perspektiven [Dōgen’s Language Thinking. Historic and Symbol Theoretic Perspectives], vol. 13 of series Worlds of Philosophy, Karl Alber‐Verlag, 2013, pp. 376.

Dōgens Sprachdenken. Historische und symboltheoretische Perspektiven wurde rezensiert | was reviewed in:

Edierte Zeitschriften | Edited Journals

  1. “Übersetzung und Überlieferung von Philosophie” [“Translation and Transmission of Philosophy”] co-edited with Aurelio Calderon and Xenia Wenzel, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 80.000 words, 2020 (forthcoming).
    Contributors: John Maraldo (Florida), Jens Heise (Heidelberg), Xenia Wenzel (Leipzig), Ralf Müller, and others.
  2. Schwerpunkt “Morphologie” [Special section “Morphologie”]
    Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, 13 (1) 2019, pp. 5-86.
    Contributors: Philippe Descola, Muriel van Vliet, Thomas Reinhardt, and Ralf Müller.
  3. “Ueda Shizuterus Philosophie in der Diskussion”, [“Ueda Shizuteru’s philosophy in discussion”], Asiatic Studies vol. 69.2, 2015. Contributors: Gereon Kopf and Ralf Müller.

Artikel | Articles

  1. Müller, Ralf (2023): »Zur Überlieferung von Philosophie durch Übersetzung«[»On the Transmission of Philosophy Through Translation«] (8500 words), in: »Überlieferung und Übersetzung der Philosophie« [»Transmission and Translation of Philosophy«] ed. by Ralf Müller, Fredy Calderon, and Xenia Wenzel, special volume of Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (forthcoming).
  2. Müller, Ralf (2022): »The articulation of silence in language. About Ueda Shizuteru’s language thinking.«, in: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru. Thoughts about Language, Experience and Zen ed. by Raquel Bouso, Ralf Müller and Adam Loughnane, Springer [8.000 words; forthcoming].
  3. Müller, Ralf (2022): »Philosophie und Übersetzung. Perspektiven der Morphologie nach Ernst Cassirer« [»Philosophy and Translation. Perspectives of Morphology after Ernst Cassirer«], in: Morphologie als Paradigma in den Wissenschaften. [Morphology as Scientific Paradigm] ed. by Ralf Müller and Research Network “Morphology as Scientific Paradigm”, Beiheft 3, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, pp. 99-127.
  4. Müller, Ralf (2019): “The Philosophical Reception of Japanese Buddhism After 1868”, in: Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy ed. by Gereon Kopf, Springer, pp. 155-204.
  5. Müller, Ralf (2019): »Der Begriff der Gestalt in der modernen Linguistik. Ernst Cassirer im Gespräch mit Roman Jakobson«, in: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie vol. 13.1, pp. 63-86.
  6. Müller, Ralf (2018): »Formwerdung und Formlosigkeit der Form. Die Beiträge von Ernst Cassirer und Nishida Kitarō zur Lebensphilosophie«, in: Ernst Cassirer in systematischen Beziehungen. Zur kritisch-kommunikativen Bedeutung seiner Kulturphilosophie ed. by Thiemo Breyer and Stefan Niklas, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Sonderband 40, pp. 195-215.
  7. Müller, Ralf (2018): »Philosophy and the practice of reflexivity. On Dōgen’s discourse about Buddha-nature«, in: Concepts of Philosophy ed. by Raji C. Steineck et al., Brill Publisher, pp. 545-576.
  8. Müller, Ralf (2016): »›Dōgen também fala de…‹ Citações do patriarca do Zen na filosofia de Nishida« transl. by A.F. Neto, in: Filosofia da escola de Kyoto e suas fontes orientais ed. by A.F. Neto, 2016.
  9. Müller, Ralf (2015): 「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«], in:『日本哲学史研究』Research Bulletin of Japanese Philosophy, pp. 69-81.
  10. Müller, Ralf (2015): 「禅における再帰性―井上円了の禅解釈」, in: International Inoue Enryo Research vol. 3, pp. 96-106.
  11. Müller, Ralf (2015): »Die Artikulation des Schweigens in der Sprache. Zum Sprachdenken des Philosophen Ueda Shizuteru«, in: Asiatische Studien vol. 69.2, pp. 391-417.
  12. Müller, Ralf (2014): »Inoue Enryō und die Entdeckung von Sprache im Zen – Über Prolegomena zur Philosophie der Zen-Schule von 1893«, in: Begriff und Bild der modernen japanischen Philosophie ed. by Raji C. Steineck et al., Frommann Holzboog (Reihe »Philosophie interkulturell«), pp. 63-105.
  13. Müller, Ralf (2014): »›Dōgen spricht auch von…‹. Zitate des Zen-Patriarchen in Nishidas Philosophie«, in: Kitaro Nishida in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts ed. by Rolf Elberfeld and Yoko Arisaka, Karl Alber-Verlag, pp. 203-238.
  14. Müller, Ralf (2010): »Shobutsu shoso ha dōtoku nari – Watsuji Tetsurō no Dōgen tetsugaku«, in: The Proceedings of the 68th Annual Convention of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies vol. 84.4, pp. 204-205.
  15. Müller, Ralf (2009): »Watsuji’s Reading of Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō«, in: Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6 ed. by James W. Heisig and Raquel Bouso, Nanzan, pp. 174-191.
  16. Müller, Ralf (2009): »On Impermanency and Human Mortality«, in: Comparative Philosophy Today and Tomorrow ed. by Sarah A. Mattice et al., Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 40-57.
  17. Müller, Ralf (2007): »L’épistémologue Yodono Yōjun sur la philosophie du moine Dōgen« in: Conference Proceedings of 3rd International Meeting of Le Réseau Asie, Paris.
  18. Müller, Ralf (2007): »Dōgen und religiöse Erfahrung«, in: Religiöse Erfahrung II: Interkulturelle Perspektiven ed. by Gerd Haeffner, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 122-140.
  19. Müller, Ralf (2006): »Getting Back to Premodern Japan: Tanabe’s Reading of Dōgen«, in: Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy ed. by James W. Heisig, Nanzan University, pp. 164-183.
  20. Müller, Ralf (2005): »Watsuji et la découverte de la philosophie japonaise«, in: Conference Proceedings of 2nd International Meeting of Le Réseau Asie, Paris.

Übersetzungen | Translations

  1. Müller, Ralf (2020): »Ueda Shizuteru. Introducing Ueda Shitzuteru« (from Japanese), in: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru. Thoughts about Language, Experience and Zen, ed. by Raquel Bouso, Ralf Müller and Adam Loughnane, Springer Series [5.000 words; in press].
  2. Müller, Ralf (2020): »Reviewing Ueda Shizuteru PhD dissertation: Reviews of Heinrich Dumoulin and Jan Sudbrack« (from Japanese and German), in: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru. Thoughts about Language, Experience and Zen ed. by Raquel Bouso, Ralf Müller and Adam Loughnane, Springer Series [5.000 words; in press].
  3. Müller, Ralf and Maria Römer (2020): »Ueda Shizuteru interviewed by Takahashi Yoshito – Shouldering the Tradition of the Kyoto School« (from Japanese), in: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru. Thoughts about Language, Experience and Zen ed. by Raquel Bouso, Ralf Müller and Adam Loughnane, Springer Series, Springer Series [11.000 words; in press].
  4. Müller, Ralf and Maria Römer (2020): »Ueda Shizuteru and Ito Masao dicussing the heart« (from Japanese), in: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru. Thoughts about Language, Experience and Zen ed. by Raquel Bouso, Ralf Müller and Adam Loughnane, Springer Series [4.000 words; in press].
  5. Müller, Ralf (2018): »Inoue Enryō, An Evening Conversation about Philosophy [first complete English translation of『哲学一夕話』Tetsugaku isseki wa of 1886/1887], in: International Inoue Enryō Research vol. 6, pp. 34–92.
  6. Müller, Ralf (2017): »Nishida Kitarō, Über die Philosophie des Lebens«, in: European Journal of Japanese Philosophy vol. 2, pp. 295-315.
  7. Müller, Ralf (2014): »Kitarō Nishida. Anhang zu Schematische Erläuterung«, in: Kitaro Nishida in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts ed. by Rolf Elberfeld and Yoko Arisaka, Karl Alber-Verlag, pp. 460-462.
  8. Müller, Ralf (2011): »Tanabe Hajime, The philosophy of Dōgen [Extract from『正法眼蔵の哲学私観』Shōbōgenzō no tetsugaku shikan]«, in: Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture) ed. by J.W. Heisig et al., University of Hawaii Press, 2011, pp. 683-688.
Rezensionen | Reviews
  1. Müller, Ralf (2022): Review: Francois Jullien’s Living off Landscape, or the Unthought of in Reason, in: Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology vol. 7.2, pp. 176-182.
  2. Müller, Ralf (2021): »Conference Report: Kyōto in Davos. The Question of the Human from a Cross-Cultural Vantage Point«, in: Journal of Japanese Philosophy vol. 7, pp. 117-124.
  3. Müller, Ralf (2016): »Conference Report: Japanese Philosophy in a New Key«, in: Journal of Japanese Philosophy vol. 4, pp. 137-146.
  4. Müller, Ralf (2014): »Anfractuosité et unification: La philosophie de Nishida Kitarō [Anfractuosity and unification: Nishida Kitarō’s philosophy] by Michel Dalissier, Genève: Librairie Droz, 2009, p. 640«, in: Philosophy East & West vol. 64.1, pp. 249-253.
  5. Müller, Ralf (2011): »Japanese and Continental Philosophy. Conversations with the Kyoto School, ed. by Bret W. Davis, Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2011«, in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie vol. 36.3, pp. 374-384.

Kyoto in Davos: The Question of the Human from a Cross Cultural Vantage Point.

International Conference in cooperation with TU-Braunschweig

September 10-13, 2020
Institute of Philosophy (Domäne), Hildesheim University, Germany

The international conference, “Kyoto in Davos,” to be held in Hildesheim, Germany, returns to the well-known 1929 Davos disputation between Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) that focused on the central question of Kantian philosophy “Was ist der Mensch?” and considers what directions the debate might have taken had Nishida Kitarō (1870- 1945) – or any of the other members of the Kyoto School or thinker from Japan – been present.

With this question, Kant outlined the field of philosophy in its “cosmopolitan importance.” And while Kant’s cosmopolitanism was progressive and an expression of the best of the Enlightenment, such a cosmopolitanism cannot but appear to us today as Eurocentric. It has become essential to critically reflect on the cultural bias of our understanding of the human. Max Scheler, in his 1928 book, The Human Place in the Cosmos, explicitly begins from the point of view of a “well-educated European” and thus from a clearly stated cultural bias. Returning to the Davos disputation, we ask to what degree the debate between Cassirer and Heidegger was dominated by a Eurocentric bias and how the philosophical account of the human would have unfolded had a culturally other voice been part of the debate.

Thus, the conference seeks to imagine a counter-factual confrontation (Auseinandersetzung) between Cassirer, Heidegger, Nishida, and other Japanese philosophers and to rethink, both historically and systematically, the nature of the human: What role does culture and religion play in Philosophical Anthropology? And to what extent does the plurality of cultures and religions contradict the perspective of universalism largely assumed by Philosophical Anthropology today? And how can other philosophical traditions broaden our understanding of the human and challenge the dominant models of essentialism, naturalism, culturalism, and existentialism?

Within this framing of the question, we suggest furthering the discussion at Davos within three thematic fields:

1. Historical and systematic contextualization of philosophical anthropology and the question of the human:

  • What are the parallels in Japanese and German philosophical history from the 1910s to the 1930s?
  • What role do neo-Kantianism and Lebensphilosophie play in Germany and Japan at the beginning of the 20th century?
  • What can the Kyoto School and other streams contribute to philosophical anthropology?
  • What are the repercussions of the multi-cultural view of the human?

2. The repetition, appropriation, and transformation of Kant and post-Kantian philosophy:

  • What is the importance of Kant, neo-Kantianism and philosophical anthropology for thedevelopment of early Japanese philosophy?
  • What is the importance of early Japanese philosophy to our understanding of Kant andthe post-Kantian philosophy?

3. The Crisis of Human Self-Understanding and the Kantian Question Across Cultural Difference:

  • Given the interconnection between language and understanding, what does it mean to translate philosophical language, specifically such terms as Mensch, human, 人間, fromone culture to another?
  • Can we translate Kant’s question of the human from Western to Eastern tradition, fromthe past to the present?
  • What were the conditions for translating the Western philosophical discourse intoJapanese and rendering it understandable? Is it possible to translate Japanesephilosophical discourse back into Western terminology?
  • Are there limits to understanding?
  • How does the limits of linguistic or cultural translation offer us new systematic insightsinto the question concerning the human?

The invited speakers and guests include: Eric Nelson (Hong Kong), Steve Lofts (London, Canada), Ralf Becker (Landau, Germany), Sascha Freyberg (Venice, Italy), John Maraldo (Florida, USA), Bret Davis (Baltimore, USA), Gregory Moss (Hong Kong), Fernando Wirtz (Kyoto, Japan), and Jörn Bohr (Wuppertal).

Organized by Ralf Müller, Tobias Endres and Domenico Schneider.

Japanese-philosophy.org

I launched the website »www.japanese-philosophy.org« for the first time in 2005. It covered basic information on Japanese philosophy. However, it was meant to, primarily, provide a hub for people spread around the globe to see what’s going on in our field of research. In the meantime, students of Hildesheim University have founded the European Network of Japanese philosophy (https://enojp.org) which has helped to establish academic and professional exchange across continents. Other important networks have also been established in the U.S. and Japan.

Thus, the previous content of the website is outdated. I will, however, relaunch the website in summer 2020. For the time being, please review the content recovered from „wayback machine“ at archive.org:

www.japanese-philosophy.org

Tetsugaku Jii 哲學字彙

The website www.tetsugaku-jii.org provides electronic access to the 3rd edition of the first Japanese dictionary of philosophy, the Tetsugaku Jii 哲學字彙 (1912). The first edition was published as early as 1881.

This project serves as part of the source material of the DFG research project »The Translation of Philosophy to Japan from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Culture«.

The dictionary exhibits the forging of the philosophical vocabulary in Japanese and, hence, the linguistic base of the comprehensive process of the translation of Western academic philosophy into Japan. The analysis of the dictionary will be conducted both statistically and qualitatively. The dictionary serves as a valuable resource to all scholars of the modern history of ideas of Japan and Japanese philosophy.

The digitization of the dictionary and online access will be developed into a more comprehensive data base that includes links to other resources and collaborative tools that can help to establish a base for more advanced research.

At present, the Japanese terms can be looked up for page numbers in the original dictionary. Logged into an account (free of charge and for research purposes only), more comprehensive data are provided.

Future plans include the expansion of the database to include the Iwamani Dictionary of Philosophy (compiled by Kyoto School philosophers and other notable scholars in Japan).

The analysis of the Tetsugaku Jii and the Iwanami Dictionary based on khcoder will be undertaken over the summer 2020.

The present team consists of Ralf Müller as the principal investigator, supported by Maria Römer (Japanologist), Yasuo Nozaki (Translator), and Lena Nahrwold (Applied informatics).

https://www.tetsugaku-jii.org

Aktivitäten | Activities

Peer Reviewing
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | German Research Foundation (2020)
  • Journal Polylog (2019)
  • State University of New York Press (2017-2018)
  • European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (2015-2019)
  • KronoScope (2014)
  • Journal of Japanese Philosophy (2013-2014)
Reading Groups
  • Whitehead (Berlin) 2009
  • Comparative Philosophy (Zurich) 2011
  • Nishitani (Kyoto) 2012
  • Nishida (Kyoto) 2014
  • Cassirer (Berlin) 2016
  • Kant-Hegel (Berlin) 2017-2018
  • »The task of translation« (Berlin) 2018-2019
Workshops
  • 5 Workshops on »Morphology as Scientific Paradigm« (various places) 2015-2019
  • 2 Workshops on »Play of Culture« (Sankt Gallen) 2017-2018
  • International workshop on Dōgen (Berlin) 2020
Conferences
  • Conceptual consulting for »Asia and Europe in Translation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives« (Zurich) 2014, 50 persons.
  • Member of steering committee of »Transitions. 4th Annual Conference of European Network of Japanese philosophy« (Hildesheim) 2018, 120 persons.
  • Organizer of »Kyoto in Davos. The Question of the Human from a Cross Cultural Vantage Point« (Hildesheim) 2020, no. of persons tbd.
Other
  • Concept for the permanent exhibition »Play of Culture(s)« at Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum (Sankt Gallen) 2019.

Lehrveranstaltung | Teaching

  • Philosophie zwischen »Ost« und »West«: Methoden und Themen (SoSe 2020, Hildesheim)
  • Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes, Selbstbewusstsein (WiSe 2019/2020, Hildesheim)
  • Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes, Bewusstsein (SoSe 2019, Hildesheim)
  • Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes, Einleitung (WiSe 2018/19, Hildesheim)
  • Leibniz‘ Monadologie (SoSe 2018, Hildesheim)
  • René Descartes: Meditationen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie (WiSe 2017/18, Hildesheim).
  • Das Museum als Ort von Erfahrung und Reflexion. Zu François Lyotards Ausstellung Les Immatériaux von 1985 im Centre Georges Pompidou (SoSe 2017, Hildesheim).
  • Wittgenstein als Kulturphilosoph. Zu Stanley Cavells Interpretation des Ausdrucks »Lebensform« (SoSe 2016, Hildesheim).
  • Goethes Naturphilosophie (WiSe 2015/16, Hildesheim).
  • Texte zur frühromantischen Kant-Kritik (WiSe 2015/16, Hildesheim).
  • Gibt es Formen der intuitiven Erkenntnis? Texte zu Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft (SoSe 2015, Hildesheim).
  • Was ist Kultur? Texte zur Einführung in die Kulturphilosophie (SoSe 2015, Hildesheim).
  • Die Religionsphilosophie der Kyōto-Schule (FrüSe 2014, Zürich) mit Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rother.
  • Theorie und Praxis der Übersetzung (HeSe 2013, Zürich).
  • Über Roman Jakobsons Begriff der Transmutation (FrüSe 2013, Zürich).
  • Japans »Schöne Kunst«: Begriffsfindung und Konstituierung eines kunsthistorischen Kanons im ästhetisch-philo- sophischen Diskurs (HeSe 2012, Zürich) mit M.A. Dinah Zank und M.A. Jeanne Egloff.
  • Grenzen der philosophischen Ästhetik im Spiegel der japanischen Kunstgeschichte (FrüSe 2012, Zürich) mit M.A. Dinah Zank.
  • Sprachen der Philosophie und das Problem der Übersetzung (HeSe 2011, Zürich).
  • Eine philosophische Grammatik des Japanischen? Ostasiatische Sprachen und Wilhlem von Humboldts Philoso- phie (FrüSe 2011, Zürich).