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Graduiertenkolleg "Philosophie des Ortes"
KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Ostenstr. 22, Raum eO 112
85072 Eichstätt

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Place of Birth: Kurashiki, Japan

Japanese Name: 八木 勉

Research Project
Structure of Linguisticality: The Modalities of Being-in-Language in Gadamer

Education

• 2013-current: Scholarship holder at the research group "Philosophy of Place" at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • Doctoral Thesis: Structure of Linguisticality: The Modalities of Being-in-Language in Gadamer
  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Günter Figal, Prof. Dr. Walter Schweidler
• 2012-current: Ph.D in philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• 2010-2011: Master of Arts in philosophy at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
  • Master Thesis: Multilateral View of History: Gadamer’s Reappropriation of Heidegger
  • Supervisor: Prof. David Weberman
• 2008-2010: Master of Arts in philosophy at University College Dublin (Ireland)
  • Master Thesis: Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Critique of Heidegger’s Existential Analytic
  • Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Cohen
• 2006-2008: Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at University of California, Berkeley (U.S.A.)

Research Interests

• Continental Philosophy
• Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur, Schleiermacher, Habermas, Vattimo)
• Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas, Waldenfels)
• Postmodernism (Derrida, Sloterdijk, Agamben, Foucault)
• German Philosophy of Language (Herder, Humboldt, Wittgenstein)
• Asian (particularly Japanese) Philosophy

Publication (Articles)

• “Exiled in the Mother Tongue: Gadamers Beitrag zur Frage nach Heimat und Fremde” (Übers. Karin Kuchler). Polylog, 31 (2014), 31-39.
• “Beyond Subjectivity: Kierkegaard’s Self and Heidegger’s Dasein”. Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2009), 60-77.

Publication (Book Reviews)

• Risser, James. The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics, META, 6 (2014), 425-429.
• Grondin, Jean. Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas, Pli, 24 (2013), 205-214.

Conference Presentations

• "The Enigma of Health and Ki (気): Hermeneutics of Health and Oriental Medicine", Phenomenological Crossings, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Södertörn University (Sweden), 23-25 April 2015.
• "Birth and Infancy in Language: Hermeneutics of Coming-to-Language in Sloterdijk and Agamben", Living in Time, University College Dublin, Ireland, 10-11 April 2015.
• "The Coming-to-Language as a Mark of Non-Difference: Situating Philosophical Hermeneutics Between Identity and Difference", Identity and Difference, Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa (CPSA), University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 27-29 March 2015.
• "Is Linguistic Justice Translatable? On the Significance of Translation for Linguistic Justice", Universal History, Philosophical History, and the Fate of Humanity, The 2015 Telos Conference, The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, Deutsches Haus (New York University), U.S.A., 13-15 February 2015.
• “Birth in Language: The Coming-into-Language as a Mark of Non-Difference”, NASPH Ninth Annual Meeting, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Roanoke College, U.S.A, 12-13 September 2014.
• “From Nature to Fūdo: Revisiting Watsuji’s Thought at the Spatial Turn”, Philosophy After Nature, SEP/FEP Joint Annual Conference, The Society for European Philosophy (SEP) and Forum for European Philosophy (FEP), Utrecht Universität, Niederlande, 3-5 September 2014.
• “The Mother Tongue as the Place of Sojourn: A Hermeneutic Response to Waldenfels”, At the Limits of Phenomenology, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Universität Helsinki, Finnland, 24-26 April 2014.
• “Exiled in the Mother Tongue: Gadamer’s Contribution to the Question of Heimat and Fremde”,  Ort/e des Denkens: Zum Anspruch inter»kultureller« Philosophie, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Österreich, 26-28 September 2013.

Awards

• 2013-2016: Stipendium des Graduiertenkollegs "Philosophie des Ortes"
• 2010-2011: Full Fellowship der Central European University
• 2010: First Class Honours an der University College Dublin