Kyoto in Davos. Intercultural Readings of the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate

Tobias Endres received his Dr. phil. in Philosophy in 2018 from TU Berlin with a dissertation on Ernst Cassirer’s Phenomenology of Perception. Since then, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at TU Braunschweig where he is pursuing his habilitation thesis on the philosophy of Henri Bergson. Ralf Müller is currently a research fellow at University College Cork, Ireland. His research interests involve the philosophy of language and culture, particularly the intercultural philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. Currently, he works on the concept of translation in philosophy. See www.ralfmueller.eu. Domenico Schneider received his Dr. Phil. in Philosophy with a thesis on language and embodiment and, in addition, holds a diploma in Mathematics. After his studies he worked within the TOPOI Cluster of Excellence at HU Berlin. He is currently preparing a habilitation on the lifeworld of digital net culture at TU Braunschweig where he is a postdoctoral researcher.

Preface

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



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