Kah Kyung Cho

Kah Kyung Cho (* 1927 in Chosen, at that time the Japanese Empire ) is a South Korean - American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York

Life and work

Kah Kyung Cho first studied at Seoul National University ( South Korea) and then went to Hans -Georg Gadamer at Heidelberg University, where he in philosophy with a dissertation on "The importance of nature in Chinese thought " received his doctorate in 1957. From 1957 to 1970 he was a lecturer and professor at Seoul National University. From 1963 to 1966 he worked at the Husserl Archives at the University of Cologne Ludwig Landgrebe. In the 60s, Cho was also a visiting professor in the United States at Yale University in New Haven, at Kent State University and the State University of New York. He is since 1971 professor of philosophy. In 1976 he held a visiting professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main also lectures at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Trier. In 1983 he was a visiting professor at the University of Bochum, 1990 at the Osaka University ( Japan ), 1991 at the Soongsil University ( South Korea). Since 1994, Cho is at the State University of New York " SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor ."

His research and his teaching were mainly in the areas of phenomenology, hermeneutics, European philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries, comparative East-West philosophy and intercultural understanding. What did Helmuth Vetter 1999 on the ten years before the book '. Consciousness and natural being Phenomenological West-East Divan " from Kah Kyung Cho, may indicate the tension in the moves Cho's philosophy:" The topic unfolds Cho, is subordinated to the question of center and measure, and it is this [ ... ] to the naturalness of nature This leads to critical questions especially on Husserl and Heidegger [ ... ] by Lao Tzu and its base word ' Tao ' receives. . question of the Mean and the naturalness of nature - the ' natural being ' -. before that peculiar aggravation, which leads into the conversation with occidental thinking in the middle " The book summarizes work from 1967 to 1987 together, and should, according to Cho's own words, be an attempt to "make visible the limits of consciousness philosophical approach ". In 1996 Cho for his book " Consciousness and -nature " the way Wu Philosophy Prize Thus the Wu Foundation in Seoul.

Kah Kyung Cho, who is fluent in German, English, Japanese and Korean, also dominates the Chinese, French and Greek. He is a member of the International Society for Phenomenological Studies, the German Society for Phenomenological Research and the General Society for Philosophy in Germany.

Publications

Works

  • Ontology ( with Myung -no Yun and Myung- kwan Choi ). Minerva Publishing Company, Seoul 1965
  • Consciousness and natural being. Phenomenological West-East Divan. ( Alber - philosophy Paperback ) Publisher Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1987. ISBN 3-495-47620-2. Japanese: Ishhiki -to Shizen. (Modern Classics " Universitas " Series) Hosei University Press, Tokyo 1994

Editorship

  • From 1993, together with Yoshihiro Nitta (Tokyo), and Hans Rainer Sepp ( Prague) editor of the international series > Orbis Phaenomenologicus <. By 2001, Alber, Freiburg / Munich (8 volumes), since 2002 at King & Neumann, Würzburg.
  • Philosophy and Science in Phenomenological Perspective. Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1984. ISBN 90-247-2922- X
  • With Young- Ho Lee Editor: phenomenology of nature ( Phenomenology of Nature ) ( Phenomenological Research Special Issue ). Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1999. ISBN 978-3-495-45651-4
  • With Jeon Sook Hahn. Phenomenology in Korea. ( Orbis Phaenomenologicus, perspectives Volume 1 ) Publisher Karl Alber. Freiburg / Munich, 2001. ISBN 978-3-495-45651-4

Papers (selection in German language )

  • Thoughts away from the dichotomous explanation of the world. In: Nature and History. Festschrift for Karl Lowith. Carbon Hammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1967. Pp. 63-84
  • About the Known: Pensive on the problem of pre-structure. In: Phenomenology Today. Festschrift for Ludwig Landgrebe. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1972. S 78-93
  • Anonymous subject and phenomenological description. In: On the Phenomenology of the philosophical text. ( Phenomenological Research 12). Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg / Munich, 1982. ISBN 3-495-47470-6. pp. 21-56
  • Ecological approaches to Heidegger's reflections on the art. In: Journal for General Philosophy, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 53-57.
  • Understanding in cosmic and acosmic perspectives In: Dilthey and the philosophy of the present. Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg / Munich 1985. ISBN 978-3-495-47572-0. pp. 231-283
  • Heidegger and the return to the origin. Inquiries about his meeting with Laozi motives. In: For the philosophical relevance of Heidegger Volume 3 Edited by Dietrich Papenfuss and Otto Pöggeler. Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1992. ISBN 978-3-465-02258-9. pp. 299-324
  • On the idea of the ' preservation ' of natural beauty. In: Facets of truth. Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel. Edited by Ernesto Garzón Valdés and Ruth Ling rooms. Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg / Munich, 1995, ISBN. 3-495-47820-5. pp. 21-56
  • What it means to be heirs of the past?. In: Phenomenology in Korea ( Orbis Phaenomenologicus, perspectives 1), Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg / Munich, 2001. ISBN 978-3-495-45651-4. pp. 3-34
  • Phenomenology as a practical philosophy, motivation and goal of "renewal " in Edmund Husserl. In: Man's position in the culture. Festschrift for Ernst Wolfgang Orth. Edited by Christian Bermes, Julia Jonas and Karl -Heinz Lembeck. Publisher King & Neumann, Würzburg 2002. ISBN 978-3-8260-2232-6. pp. 247-269

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Revised Romanization of Korean McCune–Reischauer Chinese philosophy 19th-century philosophy 20th-century philosophy Intercultural philosophy Martin Heidegger Korean language Wilhelm Dilthey Integrated Authority File
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