John Krummel

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A Brief Bio

John W.M. Krummel is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His interests include Japanese philosophy, Kyoto School, Nishida Kitarō, Miki Kiyoshi, phenomenology and Continental philosophy, Martin Heidegger, Reiner Schürmann, imagination, and Buddhism among others. He has authored Nishida Kitarō’s Chiasmatic Chorology: Place of Dialectic, Dialectic of Place (Indiana University Press, 2015), edited Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader (Roman & Littlefield International, 2019), and translated various philosophical works from both Japanese and German. He is also editor of International Journal of Social Imaginaries (Brill) and The Journal of Japanese Philosophy (SUNY), and current president of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy.

His research interests include: Continental philosophy, phenomenology, Heidegger, Kant, Buddhist philosophy, Kyoto school philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Nishida, Schürmann. History of philosophy, German idealism, existentialism, philosophy of religion, Asian thought, Asian religions, Buddhism, comparative religion, theology and philosophy, medieval Christian and Islamic mysticism, death & dying, nihilism, Nietzsche, Mishima, Dostoevsky, Castoriadis, Nancy.