Rolf Elberfeld

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Rolf Elberfeld (born April 28, 1964 in Billerbeck ) is a German philosopher and translator who is mainly known for his publications on intercultural philosophy ( Japan , China ).

biography

He studied theology , philosophy , Japanese studies , sinology and the history of religion at the University of Würzburg. In 1989 he received a research grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education at the Kyōto State University , then a doctoral grant in the graduate college "Intercultural Religious and Religious History Studies" at the University of Bonn. After teaching positions in the history of religion and philosophy at the University of Würzburg, he received his doctorate in philosophy with Heinrich Rombach in 1995 . Dissertation topic: Kitarō Nishida and the question of interculturality . 1997–2003 he was a research assistant in philosophy at the University of Wuppertal. The habilitation thesis (2001) dealt with the subject of Dōgens phenomenology of time and the methods of comparative philosophy , for this work he received the Straniak Philosophy Prize. In 2002 he received the Karl Jaspers Prize for Philosophy from the Lower Saxony Foundation. Teaching assignments at various universities followed. In 2008 he received appointments at the universities of Zurich (professorship with a focus on Asia and Europe), Innsbruck (professorship for philosophy) and Hildesheim (professorship for cultural philosophy), and in 2010 he was appointed to the University of Vienna (professorship for philosophy in a global world). He currently holds a professorship for cultural philosophy at the University of Hildesheim. The main research areas are phenomenology , intercultural ethics and aesthetics , cultural philosophy , philosophy of the body and interculturality . Since April 1, 2019, he has been leading a Reinhart Koselleck project on the topic of stories of philosophy from a global perspective , which is funded by the DFG for a total of five years.

Fonts

Monographs
  1. Kitarō Nishida (1870-1945). Understanding the cultures. Modern Japanese philosophy and the question of interculturality (Rodopi: Amsterdam 1999)
  2. Approaches to Buddhist Philosophy in China. Seng Zhao - Jizang - Fazang between interpretation and translation , Rolf Elberfeld, Michael Leibold, Mathias Obert (Edition Chora: Cologne 2000)
  3. Phenomenology of Time in Buddhism. Methods of intercultural philosophizing (Frommann-Holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2004)
  4. Language and languages. A basic philosophical orientation (Karl Alber: Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2012)
  5. Philosophizing in a globalized world. Paths to a transformative phenomenology (Karl Alber: Freiburg i. Br / Munich 2017)
  6. Zen (Reclam: Stuttgart 2017)
Editions
  1. Comparative Philosophy. Encounters between eastern and western ways of thinking, ed. v. R. Elberfeld, J. Kreuzer, J. Minford, G. Wohlfart (Fink-Verlag: Munich 1998)
  2. Translation and Interpretation, ed. v. R. Elberfeld, J. Kreuzer, J. Minford, G. Wohlfart (Fink-Verlag: München 1999.)
  3. Kitarō Nishida : logic of the place. The beginning of modern philosophy in Japan, ed., Trans. u. a. v. R. Elberfeld (Scientific Book Society: Darmstadt 1999)
  4. Comparative aesthetics. Arts and Aesthetic Experiences in Asia and Europe, ed. v. R. Elberfeld and G. Wohlfart (Edition Chora: Cologne 2000)
  5. Comparative ethics. The “Good Life” in Asia and Europe, ed. v. R. Elberfeld et al. G. Wohlfart (Edition Chora: Cologne 2002)
  6. Dōgen: Shōbōgenzō . Selected texts. Different philosophizing from Zen (bilingual edition), trans. u. ed. v. R. Ōhashi et al. R. Elberfeld (Keio-Verlag: Tōkyō 2006 / Frommann-Holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2006)
  7. What is philosophy Programmatic texts from Plato to Derrida (Reclam: Stuttgart 2006)
  8. Kitarō Nishida in 20th Century Philosophy. With texts by Nishida in German translation , ed. v. R. Elberfeld et al. Y. Arisaka (Karl-Alber: Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2014)
  9. Philosophy historiography from a global perspective , ed. v. R. Elberfeld (Meiner: Hamburg 2017)

Transformative phenomenology

Since completing his habilitation, Elberfeld has developed the approach of a “transformative phenomenology”. This approach arose in the context of the phenomenological encounter with the East Asian world. In contrast to "descriptive phenomenology" ( Husserl ) and "hermeneutic phenomenology" ( Heidegger , Gadamer ), transformative phenomenology, based on East Asian ways of thinking, places the transformative exercise character of a phenomenological approach at the center of experience, thinking and speaking. Accordingly, phenomenological practice itself is the place where and in which phenomena gain a reflective life. The phenomena become ways of training that are in no way determined by a timeless goal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile Archived copy ( memento from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at the University of Hildesheim
  2. ↑ DFG: Reinhart Koselleck projects
  3. ^ Koselleck project

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Elberfeld, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Billerbeck