Seminar:
Topics in Applied Philosophy:
Language, Myths and Action

PHI-5573 - Course Outlines

Dr. Tze-wan Kwan

   Philosophy Department
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Bibliographies:

  1. Aristotle, On Interpretation.
  2. Aristotle, Poetics.
  3. Émil Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, (trans.) Mary Elizabeth Meek (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1973).
  4. Isaiah Berlin, Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, second edition.
  5. Ernst Bloch, Zwischenwelten in der Philosophiegeschichte. (Stuttgart: Suhrkamp, 1977).
  6. Ernst Bloch, Neuzeitliche Philosophie. (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1985).
  7. Ernst Cassirer, "Die Kantischen Elemente in Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachphilosophie", in: Festschrift für Paul Hensel, hrsg. von Julius Binder, (Greiz i.V., 1923), pp. 105-127.
  8. Noam Chomsky, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Chapter 1, “Goals of Linguistic Theories”, pp. 7-27.
  9. Noam Chomsky, Language and Mind. Extended Edition.
  10. Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies : a Global Theory of Intellectual Change (Cambridge/Mass.:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).
  11. Hermann Diels und Walther Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. 3 Bände. (Zurich/Hildesheim: Weidmann, 1989-1990). Nachdruck der 6.Auflage von 1951-52. The monumental Diels-Kranz edition has been partially translated into English by Kathleen Freeman. See her Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962).
  12. Heidegger, Being and Time, Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, (New York, SCM Press, 1962). Paragraphs 27 and 40. p.163-168; 228-235.
  13. Heinz Heimsoeth, Die sechs großen Themen der abendländischen Metaphysik. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1981). Now also in English: The Six Great Themes of Western Metaphysics and the End of the Middle Ages, (Wayne State University Press, 1994).
  14. Elmar Holenstein, Philosophie-Atlas: Orte und Wege des Denkens. (Zürich: Ammann Verlag, 2004).
  15. Wilhelm von Humboldt, On Language: The Diversity of Human Language-Structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind. Translated by Peter Heath with an introduction by Hans Aarsleff. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
  16. Wilhelm von Humboldt, “Lettre à Monsieu Abel-Rémusat sur la nature des formes grammaticales en général et sur le génie de la langue chinoise en particulier”, Paris 1827.(〈致阿貝爾‧雷姆薩先生的信：論語法形式的通性與漢語精神的特性〉)。信件原文以法文撰寫,並於巴黎發表。德文翻譯 “Brief an M. Abel-Rémusat, Über die Natur grammatischer Formen im Allgemeinen und über den Geist der chinesischen Sprache im Besonderen.” Translated into German by Christoph Harbsmeier. See Harbsmeier, Zur philosophischen Grammatik des Alt¬chinesischen im Anschluss an Humboldts Brief an Abel-Rémusat (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1979), pp.17-88.
  17. Husserl, Logical Investigations, especially Investigation 3 & 4.
  18. Roman Jakobson, "Quest for the Essence of Language", On Language, (ed.) Linda Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 407-421; also included in Jakobson's Selected Writings, Vol. II (The Hague: Mouton, 1971), pp. 345-359.
  19. Roman Jakobson and Linda R. Waugh, The Sound Shape of Language (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1979).
  20. Roman Jakobson, Brain and Language: Cerebral Hemispheres and Linguistic Structure in Mutual Light (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1980).
  21. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Section in "Transcendental Methodology".
  22. Kant, Metaphysics of Morals, Section on "Doctrine of Right".
  23. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, (trans.) Donald A. Landes (London: Routledge, 2012).
  24. Merleau-Ponty, Signs, (trans.) Richard McCleary (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
  25. Georg Misch, The Dawn of Philosophy. A Philosophical Primer, edited in English by R.F.C. Hull (London: Routledge, 1950).
  26. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
  27. Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, transl. by Marianne Cowan (Chicago: Regnery, 1962).
  28. John C. Plott with James Michael Dolin, Global History of Philosophy. (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980).
  29. Otto Pöggeler (ed.), Hegel: Einführung in seine Philosophie. In Zusammenarbeit mit Manfred Baum ... [et al.] (Freiburg [Breisgau]/München: Alber, 1977).
  30. Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years (London: Routledge, 1992)
  31. Joachim Ritter und Karlfried Gründer (ed.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie. (Basel: Schwabe, 1985ff).
  32. R. Rorty, J.B. Schneewind, Quentin Skinner (eds), Philosophy in History: Essays on the Historiography of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
  33. Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics. Edited by Ch. Bally and A. Sechehaye in collaboration with Albert Riedlinger, translated with an introduction and notes by Wade Baskin (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972).
  34. Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life , translated by J.E. Crawford Flitch.
  35. Hao Wang (王浩), Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to What we Know (Cambridge/Mass.: MIT Press, 1986).
  36. Wilhelm Weischedel, Die philosophische Hintertreppe. 5th ed. (München: DTV, 1979).
  37. 許慎：《說文解字》
  38. 裘鍚圭：《文字學概要》
  39. 實藤惠秀：《中國人留學日本史》，譚汝謙譯。(香港：中大出版社，1982)。(北京：北京大學出版社，2012)。
  40. 勞思光：《文化哲學講演錄》，香港：中大出版社。
  41. 勞思光：《當代西方思想的困局》，(臺北：商務印書館，2014)。
  42. 勞思光：《論哲學基本問題》，郭朝順、林士華編註，(臺北：勞思光研究中心，2016)。

Related writings of course teacher

  1. 關子尹：《從哲學的觀點看》 [From a Philosophical Point of View]. Book included in the 滄海叢刊 book series, Taipei, Sanmin Publishing Company, 1994. 15+340.
  2. 關子尹：《系統視野與宇宙人生》增訂版。（香港：商務印書館，2002）。 Revised and Enlarged edition. Co-edited by Chen Tien Chi, Hsu Cho-yun and Kwan Tze-wan, (Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2002). Reprint:《系統視野與宇宙人生》。（桂林：廣西師範大學出版社，2004.5）。 (Gueilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004.5). (Chinese, co-editor and author of 6 Chapters)
  3. 關子尹：《語默無常－尋找定向中的哲學反思》[Articulation-cum-Silence: In Search of a Philosophy of Orientation].（香港：牛津大學出版社，2008）。(Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2008)。增訂重校簡體字版 (北京：北京大學出版社，2009.12)（Chinese)
  4. 關子尹：『康德與現象學傳統－有關主體性哲學的一點思考』 [Kant and Phenomenology: Some Reflections on the Philosophy of Subjectivity], presented in the Sixth Conference of the Society of Chinese Phenomenology, Beijing, October 16-19, 1999. Published in the series 《中國現象學與哲學評論》，第四輯, (上海：上海譯文出版社, 2001), pp. 141-184.
  5. 關子尹：『人文科學與歷史性--海德格與西方人文傳統的自我定位』(The Human Sciences and Historicality: Heidegger and the Self-Positioning of the Western Humanistic Tradition). Presented at the Seminar on Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Hong Kong, October 10, 1998. Now published in 《現象學與人文科學》 (Phenomenology & the Human Sciences), Taipei, Vol. 1, 2004.12, pp. 11-50.
  6. 關子尹： 『西方哲學史撰作的分期與標名問題』[Periodization and Nomenclature in the Historiography of Western Philosophy]. Paper presented at the Philosophy Department, Zhongsan University, Guangzhou, China, December 18, 2003. Printed in 《現代哲學》(Xiandai Zhexue), No. 81, (No. 2, 2005) Guangzhou, Zhongshan University, 2005.04, pp. 69-90. Now also available as a chapter in 《語默無常－尋找定向中的哲學反思》, (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 272-320.
  7. 關子尹： 『西方哲學東漸下有關語言的一些重要議題』 [Language related Issues amidst the Influx of Western Philosophy into China],《中山大學學報》社會科學版，廣州（2009年5月）第3期，頁118-127。 Journal of Sun Yat-Sen University, Social Science Edition, Guangzhou, (2009.5.15) pp. 118-127.
  8. 關子尹：『死亡的意義－論生死之間與幽明之際』，《思想》(Reflexion)，第24期，台北，聯經出版社，2013年11月，pp. 1-24。 (Chinese)
  9. 關子尹：『漢字六書學說的現象學詮釋』，《漢學研究》33卷2期 (2015)，頁49-102。
  10. 關子尹：『哲學的公共性』，《思想》(Reflexion), 第32期, 2016, 頁1-20。 (Chinese)
  11. Tze-wan Kwan, "The Human Sciences and Historicality: Heidegger and the Self-Positioning of the Western Humanistic Tradition", Time, Space and Culture, edited by David Carr and C.F. Cheung, Series: Contributions to Phenomenology (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), pp. 31-55.
  12. Tze-wan Kwan, "The Doctrine of Categories and the Topology of Concern: Prolegomena to an Ontology of Culture", originally a guest lecture in the 1989 Mini-course lecture series, delivered at the Psychology Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA. Revised and published in Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 46, Logic of the Living Presence, An oriental-occidental confrontation in phenomenology. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995), pp. 243-302.
  13. Tze-wan Kwan, "Husserl's Concept of Horizon: An Attempt at Reappraisal", Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 31, (Dordrecht: Reidel/Kluwer, 1990), pp. 361-398. Reprinted in Dermot Moran and Lester Embree (ed.) Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Vol. 1, Phenomenology: Central Tendencies and Concepts. (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 303-338.
  14. Tze-wan Kwan, "Wilhelm von Humboldt on the Chinese Language - Interpretation and Reconstruction", originally a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, revised and published in Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol 29, number 2, Berkeley, June 2001, pp. 169-242.
  15. Tze-wan Kwan, "Subject and Person as two Self-images of Western Man: Some Cross-Cultural Perspectives", paper presented at the international conference "Issues Confronting the Post-European World", a conference dedicated to Jan Patocka (1907-1977) on the occasion of the foundation of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations (OPO). Held November 6-10, 2002, at the Center for Phenomenological Research Prague at the Charles University and the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague. Now available at http://www.o-p-o.net/essays/KwanArticle.pdf
  16. Tze-wan Kwan, "Kant's Possible Contribution to Natural Law Debates". Paper presented at the Beijing International Symposium on Kant's Moral Philosophy in Contemporary Perspectives, organized by Institute of Foreign Philosophy and Deppt of Philosophy, Peking University, and Goethe-Institut Peking. Held May 17-19, 2004, in Beijing. Now published in Responsibility & Commitment: Eighteen Essays in Honor of Gerhold K. Becker, (ed.) T.W. Kwan (Waldkirch: Edition Gorz, 2008), pp. 197-224.
  17. Tze-wan Kwan, "Hegelian and Heideggerian Tautologies". Paper presented at the Third World Phenomenology Congress, organized by the World Phenomenology Institute. Held August 16-21, 2004, at Wadham College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Published in: Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 88 (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005), pp. 317-336.
  18. Tze-wan Kwan, "Towards a Phenomenology of Pronouns", paper presented at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland on 17 October 2005, and repeated at Husserl Archief, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, on 26 October 2005. Now published in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, London: Routledge, June 2007, pp. 267-288.
  19. Tze-wan Kwan, "Intentionality and Religiosity. Religion from a Phenomenological Standpoint", in Husserl's Logical Investigations in the New Century: Western and Chinese Perspectives, ed. K.Y. Lau & John J. Drummond. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 55 (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2007), pp. 83-103. [Note: An Italian translation of this paper appeared already in 2002]
  20. Tze-wan Kwan, "Unamuno as 'Pathological' Phenomenologist: Tragic Sense and Beyond", paper presented at the Fourth World Phenomenology Congress, held 17-20 August 2008, at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Published in Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century, Series: Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 103 (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009.8), pp. 229-250. (English)
  21. Tze-wan Kwan, "Abstract Concept Formation in Archaic Chinese Script Forms: Some Humboldtian Perspectives", Philosophy East & West, Vol. 61, no. 3 (July 2011), pp. 409-452. (English)
  22. Tze-wan Kwan, "Heidegger’s Schematism of Life and its Kantian Inheritance: A Critical Appraisal", for Otto Pöggeler on his eightieth birthday, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 12 (Issue 2012), published 29 August 2013, Acumen Publishing, pp. 38-68. (English)
  23. Tze-wan Kwan, “Phenomenological Interpretation of the ‘Six Ways’ of Chinese Script Formation”, Int’l Workshop des “DFG Graduiertenkollegs 1458-Schriftbildlichkeit (Notational Iconicity)”, 24-25 Sept. 2010, Freie Universität Berlin. Nun in: Visualizing Knowledge in Signs: Encoding Meanings in Logographic and Logophonetic Writing Systems, Vol. 23, Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient (BBVO), (Berlin: Pe-We-Verlag, 2014), pp. 157-202. (English)
  24. Tze-wan Kwan, "Die vierfache Wurzel des Gedankens von 'sein' in der chinesischen Sprache und Schrift", presented as invited lecture at the colloquium "Sprachen des Denkens - Denken in Sprachen", organised by Tilman Borsche, now printed in Geschichte - Gesellschaft - Geltung, XXIII. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie e. V., held 28 September - 2 October, at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Kolloquiumsbeiträge, (ed.) Michael Quante, unter Mitarbeit von Nadine Mooren und Tanja Uekötter (Hamburg: Felix Meiner-Verlag, 2016), pp. 297-314. (German)
  25. Tze-wan Kwan, “Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components: Uncovering Some Husserlian/Merleau-Pontian Connections”, International Congress: “Embodiment. Phenomenology East/West”, veranstaltet von der FU Berlin mit Unterstützung von Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, 4-7 Mai 2016, in Berlin. Published in Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, 2 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 198-207. (English)
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