Joachim Kurtz

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Joachim Kurtz (* 1964 ) is a German sinologist and historian .

biography

Kurtz studied Sinology, Political Science and Philosophy in Hamburg, Beijing, Berlin, Shanghai, Göttingen and Erlangen. In 2003 he received his doctorate in Sinology from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He was also a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Kurtz has held the professorship for the history of knowledge at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University since summer 2009 . Before his appointment to Heidelberg, he was Associate Professor of Sinology at Emory University in Atlanta and head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

In 2019 Kurtz was elected to the Academia Europaea .

research

His research focuses on cultural, philosophical and scientific exchange processes between China , Japan and Europe with a special focus on historical epistemology , logic , political theory , book history , rhetoric and historical semantics . In addition to the linguistic mediation and circulation of knowledge in cultural exchange processes, he is interested in the formation of scientific disciplines, the places where knowledge is generated and passed on, as well as the standards by which the validity of theories is judged. He investigates these questions across regional and disciplinary boundaries and looks at how the encounter with new knowledge changes the view of one's own traditions.

reception

Joachim Kurtz writes in his dissertation The Discovery of Chinese Logic that a Eurocentric perspective on Asian history leads to poor results. A new global history of "truth and rationality" would have to dismantle Western concepts of nation, culture and science. This approach is criticized because Kurtz neither gives an account of the models of this approach (e.g. Edward Said and Michel Foucault ) within the framework of a methodological self-reflection , nor justifies how the claimed claim to rationality and truth is epistemologically "ultimately sanctioned". Benjamin Elman described Kurtz in a review of his dissertation as a "promising researcher" who had to be persuaded to "think a little more daring". Then Kurtz's future projects could become a "tour de force" of intellectual change in the period from the Qing Dynasty to modern China. Vivienne Alleton praised in a review that Kurzen's dissertation, with a bibliography of over 800 entries, made an important contribution to understanding the origin of Chinese terminology for logic.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • The Discovery of Chinese Logic. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.
  • Self-assertion discourses in Asia: China - Japan - Korea. Co-edited with I. Amelung, M. Koch, et al. Studies, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-89129-845-9 .
  • New Terms for New Ideas. Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China. Co-edited with M. Lackner and I. Amelung. Leiden: Brill 2001.

items

  • Disciplining the National Essence: Liu Shipei and the Reinvention of Ancient China's Intellectual History . In Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s – 1940s. Edited by Benjamin A. Elman and Jing Tsu. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2014, pp. 67-91.
  • Translating the Vocation of Man: Liang Qichao (1873-1929), JG Fichte, and the Body Politic in Early Republican China. In Why Concepts Matter: Translating Political and Social Thought. Edited by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2012, pp. 153-176.
  • Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts. In Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History. Edited by Dagmar Schäfer. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2011, pp. 209-232.
  • Domesticating a Philosophical Fiction: Chinese Translations of Immanuel Kant's 'Things in Themselves'. Concept and Communication 7 (2011), pp. 165-202.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Straube: Institute for Sinology - Institute - Prof. Dr. Kurtz - Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Membership details : Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz | Academy of Sciences in Hamburg. Retrieved on February 28, 2017 (German).
  3. ^ Uni Heidelberg: Cluster Asia and Europe - Uni Heidelberg: Employees. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Joachim Kurtz: The discovery of Chinese logic . Brill, Leiden, Boston 2011, ISBN 90-04-17338-2 , pp. 341, 363 .
  5. ↑ Viatcheslav Vetrov: Politically correct: From philosophical derailments to a purified philosophy . Ed .: Minima sinica. No. 29 , 2017, ISSN  0936-5419 , p. 6 .
  6. ↑ Benjamin A. Elman: Reviewed Work: The Discovery of Chinese Logic by Joachim Kurtz . In: University of Hawai'i Press (Ed.): China Review International . tape 18 , no. 4 , 2011, ISSN  1069-5834 , p. 517 .
  7. ↑ Vivienne Alleton: Reviewed Work: The Discovery of Chinese Logic by Joachim Kurtz . Ed .: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine. No. 38 , 2013, ISSN  1562-918X , p. 120 .
personal data
SURNAME Kurtz, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964