Kah Kyung Cho

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 조 가경
Hanja 曺 街 京
Revised
Romanization 		Jo Ga-gyeong
McCune-
Reischauer 		Cho Kagyǒng

Kah Kyung Cho (* 1927 in Chōsen , former Japanese Empire ) is a South Korean - American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the State University of New York .

Live and act

Kah Kyung Cho studied first at the Seoul National University (South Korea) and then went to Hans-Georg Gadamer at the University of Heidelberg , where he in philosophy with a thesis on "1957 The importance of nature in Chinese thought " doctorate . From 1957 to 1970 he was a lecturer and professor at Seoul National University. From 1963 to 1966 he worked at the Husserl archive at the University of Cologne with Ludwig Landgrebe . In the 1960s, Cho was also visiting professor in the United States at Yale University in New Haven, Kent State University, and the State University of New York. There he has been professor of philosophy since 1971. In 1976, as a visiting professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, he also gave lectures at the universities of Bonn , Heidelberg and Trier . In 1983 he was visiting professor at the University of Bochum , 1990 at Osaka University ( Japan ), and 1991 at Soongsil University (South Korea). Since 1994 Cho has been "SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor" at the State University of New York.

His research and 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 Helmuth Vetter said in 1999 about the book "Consciousness and Nature Being. Phenomenological West-East Diwan" by Kah Kyung Cho, published ten years earlier, may indicate the tension in which Cho's philosophy moves: " The complex of topics that Cho unfolds is around the question of center and measure; it is about the [...] naturalness of nature. This leads to critical inquiries especially to Husserl and Heidegger . [...] Through Laotse and his basic word ' Tao ', the Question about measure and center and the naturalness of nature - the 'naturalness' - only that peculiar escalation that leads right into the conversation with Western thinking. "The book summarizes works from 1967 to 1987 and, according to Chos own words, should be the His attempt is " to make the limits of the philosophical approach visible". In 1996, Cho received the So Wu Philosophy Prize from the So Wu Foundation in Seoul for his book "Consciousness and Being of Nature".

Kah Kyung Cho, who is fluent in German , English , Japanese and Korean, is also fluent in 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

  • Philosophy of Existence . Pakyong-sa Publishing Company, Seoul (Korea) 1961, 13th edition (edited several times) 1995
  • Ontology (with Myung-no Yun and Myung-kwan Choi). Minerva Publishing Company, Seoul 1965
  • Consciousness and Nature. Phenomenological west-east divan . (Alber brochure philosophy) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1987. ISBN 3-495-47620-2 . Japanese: Ishhiki-to Shizen. (Modern Classics "Universitas" Series) Hosei University Press, Tokyo 1994
  • Phenomenology in the Light of the East . (Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Studien 34) Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-8260-5375-7

Editing

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

Articles (selection in German)

  • Thoughts beyond the dichotomous explanation of the world . In: Nature and History. Festschrift for Karl Löwith . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1967. pp. 63-84
  • About the known: Thoughtful things about the problem of the pre-structure. In: Phenomenology Today. Festschrift for Ludwig Landgrebe . Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1972. pp. 78-93.
  • Anonymous subject and phenomenological description . In: On the phenomenology of the philosophical text . (Phenomenological Research 12). Publishing house Karl Alber. Freiburg i. Br. / Munich, 1982. ISBN 3-495-47470-6 . Pp. 21-56
  • Ecological approaches in Heidegger's reflections on technology . In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Stuttgart 1985. pp. 53–57
  • Understanding in cosmic and acosmic perspectives In: Dilthey and the philosophy of the present . Publishing house Karl Alber. Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1985. ISBN 978-3-495-47572-0 . Pp. 231-283
  • Heidegger and the return to the origin. Research into his encounter motifs with Laotse . In: On the philosophical topicality of Heidegger's volume 3. Ed. By Dietrich Papenfuß and Otto Pöggeler . Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1992. ISBN 978-3-465-02258-9 . Pp. 299-324
  • On the idea of ​​'preserving' the natural beauty . In: Facets of Truth . Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel . Edited by Ernesto Garzón Valdés and Ruth Zimmerling. Publishing house Karl Alber. Freiburg i. Br. / Munich, 1995. ISBN 3-495-47820-5 . Pp. 21-56
  • What does it mean to be heirs of the past ? In: Phenomenology in Korea (Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Perspektiven 1), Verlag Karl Alber. Freiburg i. Br. / Munich, 2001. ISBN 978-3-495-45651-4 . Pp. 3-34
  • Phenomenology as practical philosophy , motivation and goal of "renewal" in Edmund Husserl. In: The position of man in culture. Festschrift for Ernst Wolfgang Orth . Edited by Christian Bermes , Julia Jonas and Karl-Heinz Lembeck . Königshausen & Neumann publishing house, Würzburg 2002. ISBN 978-3-8260-2232-6 . Pp. 247-269

Remarks

  1. ↑ Helmuth Vetter: The question of 'being nature' in Heidegger from the point of view of Kah Kyung Cho. In: Phenomenological Research. Special volume "Phenomenology of Nature". P. 16 f.
  2. ↑ Cho, Consciousness and Nature, p. 9

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personal data
SURNAME Cho, Kah Kyung
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean-American philosopher, phenomenologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Chosen , then the Japanese Empire