Deconstruction of a dialogue: Creative interpretation in comparative philosophy

• Main Author: BURIK, Steven
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Martin Heidegger; comparative philosophy; dialogue; Japanese philosophy; Auseinandersetzung (confrontation); Asian Studies; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3838; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5096/viewcontent/Burik.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

It is common knowledge that Martin Heidegger’s attempts at engaging non-Western philosophy are very much a construct of his own making. This article in no way seeks to disagree with those observations, but argues two things: first, that Heidegger’s “dialogue” with his two main other sources of inspi...