Thorsten Pattberg

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Thorsten Pattberg (* 1977 in Hamm ) is a German philologist and cultural critic at Peking University . He is the author of the East-West Dichotomy .

Life

Pattberg completed training as a judicial clerk and worked in the judicial service in the city of Hamm until 2001 and later in the city of Münster. He studied Asian Studies and Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh and Comparative Literature at Fudan University and Peking University. Pattberg was visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo and Harvard University . He received his PhD from Peking University in 2012. He is a student of Ji Xianlin and Tu Weiming .

research

Pattberg's works deal with questions about language imperialism , the competition for words and the resulting interpretative sovereignty , especially with reference to East Asian worlds of terms. He considers translations of culturally relevant terminology to be questionable. In the monograph Shengren Pattberg describes the term Shengren from Confucianism as an Asian archetype of wisdom that does not exist in the West, similar to the terms "Bodhisattva" and "Buddha" from Buddhism . From this follows Pattberg's central demand not to translate the most important East Asian terms, especially Chinese, but to integrate them into a global vocabulary.

literature

  • The East-West Dichotomy: The Conceptual Contrast Between Eastern and Western Cultures. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. 2013. ISBN 9787119085821 .
  • Shengren: Beyond Philosophy and Above Religion. New York: LoD Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0984209118 .
  • Lingualism: A New Frontier in Culture Studies. Asia Pacific World. Tokyo: Mountain Rooster. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 32-35. 2013

Essays

Interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Pattberg at the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / iahs.pku.edu.cn archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Peking University.
  2. ^ The East-West Dichotomy: The Conceptual Contrast Between Eastern and Western Cultures. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pattberg, Thorsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 裴德思
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm