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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be human? We invite the reader to discuss this most fundamental issue in philosophy and to do so in an intercultural framework. The question of the human was the starting point for a legendary discussion between two German philosophers who met in Davos in 1929. We return to this historical event and re-imagine the debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer from a global perspective. Generating twenty papers from elaborate discussions, our authors contribute to the thought experiment by inviting the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō from Kyoto and other Japanese thinkers into the debate to overcome the challenge of Eurocentrism inherent to these historic days in Davos.
Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction Ralf Müller Part 1 Recontextualizing the Davos Debate 1 Revisiting the Debate between Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: Imagination, Finiteness, and Morals Michel Dalissier 2 The Davos Debate, Pure Philosophy and Normativity: Thinking from the Perspective of the History of Philosophy Esther Oluffa Pedersen 3 Humans and Other Animals: The Forgotten Other Beyond Davos and Kyoto John C. Maraldo 4 Anthropology as an Intercultural Philosophy of Culture Tobias Endres 5 Heidegger and Cassirer on Schematism: Reflections on an Intercultural Philosophy Domenico Schneider Part 2 Nishida Joining the Davos Debate 6 Absolute Self-Contradictory Human Existence: Nishida in Davos Francesca Greco 7 Cassirer and Nishida: Mathematical Crosscurrents in Their Philosophical Paths Rossella Lupacchini 8 Lask, Heidegger, and Nishida: From Meaning as Object to Horizon and Place John W.M. Krummel 9 From Kyoto and Hong Kong to Davos: Nishida Kitaro and Mou Zongsan’s possible contributions to the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate Tak-Lap Yeung 10 From the Problem of Meaning via Basic Phenomena to the Question of Philosophy after Metaphysics: Cassirer, Heidegger, and Nishida Ingmar Meland 11 The Self-Aware Individual and the Kyoto School’s Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology Dennis Stromback Part 3 German-Japanese Ramifications of the Davos Debate 12 The Davos Debate and Japanese Philosophy: Welt-Schema and Einbildungskraft in Tanabe and Miki Tatsuya Higaki 13 From Despair to Authentic Existence: Kierkegaard’s Anthropology of Despair in the Light of Nishitani’s Thought Sebastian Hüsch 14 Cassirer, Heidegger, and Miki: The Logic of the Dual Transcendence of the Imagination Steve Lofts 15 Now, Ever or After: Contrasting the Pure Lands of D.T. Suzuki and Tanabe Hajime Rossa Ó Muireartaigh 16 On Homo Faber: Nishida and Miki Takushi Odagiri 17 Anti-Cartesianism East and West: Watsuji and Heidegger on the Possibility of Significant Dealing with Entities Hans Peter Liederbach 18 Miki and the Myth of Humanism Fernando Wirtz 19 Hineingehalten in das Nichts: Die Metaphysik und das Andere des Seins Emanuel Seitz Index
