Nature, Time, Responsibility is organized by Hiroshi Abe of Kyoto University, Matthias Fritsch of Concordia and Mario Wenning of the University of Macau.
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Hiroshi Abe has been full professor of philosophy and logic at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University since 2016. His research fields include ontology/metaphysics, logic, environmental philosophy and Japanese philosophy - in particular, Kyoto school.
Among his publications are From Symbiosis (kyôsei) to the Ontology of ‘Arising Both from Oneself and from Another (gûshô)’ in Environmental Ethics in Asian Philosophy, ed. BairdCallicott et al., SUNY Press, Albany, 2014; Umweltethik im modernen Japan, in: Begriff und Bild der modernen japanischen Philosophie, ed. Christian Steineck et al., Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart, 2014; Nishida und Heidegger über das Selbstsein, in Nishida Kitaro in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts,ed. Rolf Elberfeld et al., Karl Alber, Freiburg / München, 2014; Madame la métaphysique se meurt, madame la métaphysique est morte? in Wozu Metaphysik? Historisch-systematische Perspektiven, ed. Christopher Erhald et al., Karl Alber, Freiburg / München, 2017. Gen ― sono Rogosu to Êtosu. Heidegger eno Ôtô [The Da (Das Da) ― its Logos and Ethos. A Response to Heidegger], Kôyô-Shobô, Kyoto, 2002; Kyôtogakuha no Isan ― Sei to Shi to Kankyô [The Heritage of Kyoto-School Philosophy. Life, Death and Environment] (Coauthor), Kôyô-Shobô, Kyoto, 2008.
Matthias Fritsch is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia. His research interests are social and political philosophy, environmental ethics and 19th and 20th Century European philosophy, especially German critical theory and deconstruction.
He works primarily on justice in relation to history, time and the environment, examining questions such as, ‘what do societies owe the dead, if anything? and what are our normative relations with future generations, especially in relation to political institutions and the environment? While continuing to write on environmental and intergenerational ethics, Fritsch is curently working on a monograph on phenomenology and the sources of normative critical theory (SSHRC-funded, 2020-2025).
He is the author of the books Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice (Stanford University Press, October 2018), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, February 2018), The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005) and Reason and Emancipation. Essays in Honour of Kai Nielsen (co-editor, with Michel Seymour; New York: Humanity Books, 2007). His articles have appeared in numerous high impact journals including CR: The New Centennial Review, Oxford Literary Review and the European Journal of Political Theory, among many others.
In his role as co-organizer of Nature, Time, Responsibility, he fosters intercultural, comparative-philosophical work on environmental justice.
Mario Wenning is an associate professor at the University of Macau, China. His research interests are social and political philosophy, intercultural philosophy and aesthetics. Wenning’s publications include the books Natural Agency East and West (ed. with Nandita Batra, Routledge, 2016 ), The Human Animal-Boundary: Crossing the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Lexington) and Between Tragedy and Reconciliation: Utopia and History in Critical Theory (New York: New School University, 2007).
In addition, his recent journal articles include “Heimspiele: Kulturelle Identität in Zeiten des Populismus” in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (vol. 68:2, 2020, 319-323), “Intercultural Encounter in the Age of Hybridity: A Response to Eric Nelson” in Philosophy East and West (vol. 70:1, 2020, 225-237) and “The Dignity of Utopian Imagination” in Saulius Geniusas (ed.) Social Imaginaries, special issue on “Creative Imagination” (vol. 5:1, 2019, 181-198).
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