Profile

I earned my PhD at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany) in 1995 with a work on the notions of grounding and groundlessness in Heidegger and Derrida. Subsequently my research focused on the “bodily dimension in thinking” from a historical-genealogical and phenomenological perspective, exploring works of Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault. From this project grew my ongoing work on embodied time by focusing on the notion of rhythm. I apporach time in terms of the rhythmic articulation of things and events such that time is of things and events in their encroaching occurrences. At the same time, I continued intensive work on Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Of the event). I wrote a widely used introduction to this crucial work titled Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction (the book was translated into Chinese), and co-translated Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (Indiana University Press, 2011). My latest book is titled Heideggers Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event (Indiana University Press, 2018). It traces shifts of themes and concepts in Heidegger’s non-public writings from 1936 to 1941 and also engages these writings critically.