Philosopher Prof. John Sallis Spoke at Tunghai University
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- Date : 2015-11-17
World renowned phenomenology Philosopher Prof. John Sallis, founder and main editor of Research Phenomenology, visited Taiwan in November upon invitation from Tunghai University.
Prof. Sallis is well-known for his work on imagination and space research. Since 1984 the first publication of “Heidegger-Jahrbuch”, he has been the academic advisor. Prof. Sallis was also once chief editor of “Friedrich Nietzsche Special Edition.” He was granted honorary doctorate from Freiburg University in Germany in 2005 and received the Humboldt Research Award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2012. In recent years, Prof. Sallis has expanded his research field from the imagination and space to arts. His new work “Senses of Landscape” in 2015 interpreted the space as well as the visible and invisible senses and imagination activities depicted in Chinese landscape painting.
During his visiting, Prof. Sallis gave two speeches entitled “Return to Nature” and “Gathering Language - Heidegger’s Gespraech with the Japanese.” During the first speech, the audience traveled through the history of philosophy from ancient Greece to modern Heidegger in terms of how people viewed nature and interpreted the essence of nature. In the second speech, Heidergger’s ideas of ‘language as imagination’ and ‘imagination empowers language’ were elaborated and enthusiastically discussed among the speaker and the audience. Both speeches received vigorous feedbacks and both the speaker as well as the audiences went back with impressive and fruitful memories.
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