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.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroductionRalf MüllerPart 1 Recontextualizing the Davos Debate1 Revisiting the Debate between Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: Imagination, Finiteness, and MoralsMichel Dalissier2 The Davos Debate, Pure Philosophy and Normativity: Thinking from the Perspective of the History of PhilosophyEsther Oluffa Pedersen3 Humans and Other Animals: The Forgotten Other Beyond Davos and KyotoJohn C. Maraldo4 Anthropology as an Intercultural Philosophy of CultureTobias Endres5 Heidegger and Cassirer on Schematism: Reflections on an Intercultural PhilosophyDomenico SchneiderPart 2 Nishida Joining the Davos Debate6 Absolute Self-Contradictory Human Existence: Nishida in DavosFrancesca Greco7 Cassirer and Nishida: Mathematical Crosscurrents in Their Philosophical PathsRossella Lupacchini8 Lask, Heidegger, and Nishida: From Meaning as Object to Horizon and PlaceJohn W.M. Krummel9 From Kyoto and Hong Kong to Davos: Nishida Kitaro and Mou Zongsan’s possible contributions to the Cassirer-Heidegger DebateTak-Lap Yeung10 From the Problem of Meaning via Basic Phenomena to the Question of Philosophy after Metaphysics: Cassirer, Heidegger, and NishidaIngmar Meland11 The Self-Aware Individual and the Kyoto School’s Quest for a Philosophical AnthropologyDennis StrombackPart 3 German-Japanese Ramifications of the Davos Debate12 The Davos Debate and Japanese Philosophy: Welt-Schema and Einbildungskraft in Tanabe and MikiTatsuya Higaki13 From Despair to Authentic Existence: Kierkegaard’s Anthropology of Despair in the Light of Nishitani’s ThoughtSebastian Hüsch14 Cassirer, Heidegger, and Miki: The Logic of the Dual Transcendence of the ImaginationSteve Lofts15 Now, Ever or After: Contrasting the Pure Lands of D.T. Suzuki and Tanabe HajimeRossa Ó Muireartaigh16 On Homo Faber: Nishida and MikiTakushi Odagiri17 Anti-Cartesianism East and West: Watsuji and Heidegger on the Possibility of Significant Dealing with EntitiesHans Peter Liederbach18 Miki and the Myth of HumanismFernando Wirtz19 Hineingehalten in das Nichts: Die Metaphysik und das Andere des SeinsEmanuel SeitzIndex