CULTURAL CRITICISM

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1. ‘Kuwait: Japanophilia and Beyond: How far does International Culture Penetrate?' in S. Holland and K. Spracklen (eds.), Alternativity and Marginalisation: Essays on Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces. Bingley: Emerald, 2018. Preview.

2. ‘A Hermeneutic Answer to the Crisis of the Universities: Reflections on Bureaucracy, Business Culture and the Global University’ in K. Gray, S. Keck and H. Bachir (eds.), Eastward Bound: The Politics, Economics and Pedagogy of Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East (Lanham: Lexington, 2016).

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3. 'Science, Culture, and the University' in T. Botz-Bornstein (ed.), The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012), 3-10.

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4. 'America against China: Civilization without Culture against Culture without Civilization?' in Culture and Dialogue 2, Sept. 2011, 1-30.

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ON INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

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5. 'What is the Difference between Culture and Civilization? Two Hundred Fifty Years of Confusion' in Comparative Civilizations Review 66, Spring 2012.

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6. 'The Conscious and the Unconscious in History: Lévi-Strauss, Collingwood, Bally, Barthes' in Journal of the Philosophy of History 6, 2012, pp. 151-172.

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ON VIRTUAL REALITY

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7. 'What Would Nietzsche Have Said About Virtual Reality? Dionysus and Cyberpunk' in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 25:1, Feb 2011, pp. 99-109.

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8. 'All-Unity Seen Through Perspective or the Narrative of Virtual Cosmology' [on Berdiaev, Gebser and Perspectivism] in Seeking Wisdom 2, 2005 (online).

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9. 'From Civilization to Culture: About the Dreamlike Character of Global Civilization' in Sura P. Rath (ed.): Dialogics of Cultural Encounters: New Conversation Among Nations and Nationalities (Delhi: Pencraft International, 2005).

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10. 'Virtual Reality and Dream: Towards the Autistic Condition?' in Philosophy in the Contemporary World 11:2, 2004, 43-49.

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11. 'The Clony-Virtual Dreamsphere' in CTheory: An International Journal of Theory, Technology and Culture, Nov. 2003 (online).

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ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE

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12. 'A Tale of Two Cities: Hong Kong and Dubai, Celebration of Disappearance and the Pretension of Becoming' in Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies 3: 2, 2012. See abstract.

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13. 'European Transfigurations: Eurafrica and Eurasia. Coudenhove-Kalergi and N.S. Trubetzkoy re-visited' in The European Legacy 12:5, 2007.

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14. 'Philosophy as Space: Goethe’s Weltliteratur and a Potential "Worldphilosophy"' in T.B.B. (ed.), Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Tendencies of Cultural Revival in Contemporary Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006).

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15. 'Europe: Space, Spirit, Style' in The European Legacy 8: 2, 2003, 179-187.

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16. 'Khora or Idyll: The Space of the Dream' in The Philosophical Forum 33:2 Summer 2002.

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ON RELIGION

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17. ‘How Would You Dress in Utopia? Raëlism and the Aesthetics of Genes. A Philosophical Analysis’ in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review (ASRR) 8: 1, 2017, 101-125.

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18. ‘Believers and Secularists: “Postmodernism,” Relativism, and Fake Reasoning’ in Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 11: 2, 2014, 183–198.

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19. 'Kawaii and Kenosis: A Reading of Kawaii through Vattimo's Weak Thought and Feminist Theology' in the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 2:1, (special Issue on "Cute Studies" ed. by Joshua. P. Dale) in 2016.

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20. 'Revelation and Seduction: Baudrillard, Tillich, and Muslim Punk' in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 11:1, Jan 2014.

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21. 'Thoughts on Religion, Culture and Civilization: Can Religion be "Interesting"?' in Comparative Civilizations Review 71, Fall 2014.

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ON WOMEN / FEMINISM

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22.'Veils and Sunglasses' in the Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 5, 2013.

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23. 'From the Stigmatized Tattoo to the Graffitied Body: Femininity in the Tattoo Renaissance' in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 2012, pp. 1-17.

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24. 'Barbie and the Power of Negative Thinking: Of Barbies, Eve-Barbies, and I-Barbies' in Kritikos: Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image 9, 2012.

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25. 'Can the Veil be Cool?' in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25:2, 2013, pp. 249-263.

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26. 'Baudrillard on Cuteness' in International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 7:1, 2010.

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ON FILM

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27. NEW: ‘Blade Runner 2049: Reproduction, the Human, and the Organic’ forthcoming in Film and Philosophy 25, 2020. ​

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28. ‘“Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:” The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus’ Philosophy’ forthcoming in T. Botz-Bornstein & Stamatellos (eds.), Plotinus and the Moving Image: Neoplatonism and Film Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

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29. 'Metonymy, Mneme and Anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai' in R. Nochimson (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)

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30. '"Film Thinks!" What about Dreams? A Reading of Daniel Frampton’s Filmosophy’ in Film and Philosophy 17, 2012.

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31. 'The Movie as a Thinking Machine: Second Life and Third World' in Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For (Chicago: Open Court, 2011), ed. T. Botz-Bornstein.

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32. 'Philosophy of Film (Continental)'. Encyclopedia entry, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, May 2011 (30 pages).

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33. 'Anti-Freudianism Korean Style: Kim Kiduk's Film "Dream"' in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 2:1, 2010, 52-61.

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34. 'Identity and Otherness in the Films of Kim Kiduk' in Asian Cinema 20:2, 2009 (online).

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35. 'Would You Accept a Politics of "Multi-Realism?" Comparing The Matrix with Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Solaris' in Cinemascope 10, special issue on “Falsehood and Cinema” Jan.-June 2008 (online).

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36. '"My" vs. "Architect."' On My Architect: A Son's Journey by Nathaniel Kahn (USA 2003) Film Review published by Kritikos 3, Feb. 2006.

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37. 'Doors and Dreams.' On My Blueberry Dreams Dreams by Wong Kar-wai (USA 2007) Film Review published on the Rowman and Littlefield website.

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38. 'Wong Kar-Wai and the Culture of the Kawaii' in SubStance 116, 37:2, 2008.

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39. 'From “Ethno-Dream” to Hollywood: Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and the Problem of “Deterritorialisation”' in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 8:2, August 2007 (online).

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40. 'Tarkovsky and Benjamin: Image, Allegory, and Einfühlung' in Film and Philosophy 11, 2006.

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41. 'Ingmar Bergman and Dream after Freud' in Journal of Symbolism 8, 2006.

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42. 'Aesthetics and Mysticism: Plotinus, Tarkovsky, and the Question of "Grace"' in Transcendent Philosophy 5:4, Dec. 2004. French version on the author’s website.

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43. 'Andrei Tarkovsky: Towards a Semiotics of the Strange' in Applied Semiotics 15, article 5, May 2005.

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44. 'Realism, Dream, and "Strangeness" in Andrei Tarkovsky' in Film-Philosophy 8:38, Nov. 2004.

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45. 'On the Blurring of Lines: Some Thoughts on Alexander Sokurov' in Cinetext Sept. 2002.

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46. 'The Overcoming of Paradigms: From Formalist Film Theory to Andrei Tarkovskij' in L. Moreva & I. Yevlampiev (eds.): Paradigms of Philosophizing (St. Petersburg: Eidos, 1995), 266-272.

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47. Obituary of Ingmar Bergman on the Rowman and Littlefield blog. August 2007.

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ON ARCHITECTURE

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48. ‘Reima Pietilä Revisited’ in R. Fabbri, R. Camacho, S. Saragoça (eds.), Essays, Arguments. Interviews on Modern Architecture in Kuwait (Salenstein: Niggli, 2017).

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49. 'H-Sang Seung: Design is not Design' [on the Korean architect] in Journal of Aesthetic Education 48:1, 2014, 109-123.

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50. 'Hyperreal Monuments of the Mind: Traditional Chinese Architecture and Disneyland' in Traditional Dwelling and Settlements Review (TDSR) 22:3 Spring 2012.

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51. 'WANG Shu and the Possibilities of Critical Regionalism in Chinese Architecture' in The Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, 1, 2009, 4-17. [Note: On Feb. 27, 2012 Wang Shu receives the Pritzker Prize. This is the arguably first academic article on Wang Shu.] Link to NJAR

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52. 'Cardboard Houses with Wings: The Architecture of Samuel Mockbee' in The Journal of Aesthetic Education 44:3, 2010.

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53. 'Wittgenstein’s Stonborough House and the Architecture of Tadao Ando.' French version published in Daruma 14, Spring 2007. Engl. version published on the author’s website.

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54. 'When the Monumental Becomes Decorative: Thoughts on Contemporary Chinese Architecture' published on the author’s website 2007.

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55. '"Magic Internationalism" or the Paradox of Globalization: Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh' in PTAH: Journal of the Alvar Aalto Academy 1:5, 2005.

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56. 'Between "Verfremdung" and "Entfremdung": The Architecture of Alvar Aalto and Reima Pietilä' in DATUTOP Journal of Architectural Theory 21: 2001.

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57. 'Play, Dream, and the Search for the “Real” Form of Dwelling: From Aalto to Ando' in The Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 2, 2003: 1-5 (online).

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58. 'Empathy, Alienation, Style, Non-Style: The Architecture of Reima Pietilä' in Le Carré bleu 1998: 1.

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ON JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY

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59. ‘Kenosis, Dynamic Śūnyatā and Weak Thought: Abe Masao and Gianni Vattimo’ in Asian Philosophy 25.4, 2015, 358–383.

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60. ‘Cool-Kawaii Aesthetics and New World Modernity’ in A. Minh Nguyen (ed.), New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics: Philosophy, Politics, Culture, Literature, and the Arts (Lanham: Lexington, 2015), 207-220.

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61. 'Wabi and Kitsch: Two Japanese Paradigms' in Æ: Canadian Aesthetics Journal 15, 2008.

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62. 'Iki, Style, Trace: Shuzo Kuki and the Spirit of Hermeneutics' in Philosophy East and West Vol. 47, Nr. 4, October 1997, p. 554-580.

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63. 'Dreams in Buddhism and Western Aesthetics: Some Thoughts on Play, Style, and Space' in Asian Philosophy 17:1, 2007.

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64. 'Nishida and Wittgenstein: From “Pure Experience” to Lebensform or New Perspectives for a Philosophy of Intercultural Communication' in Asian Philosophy 13:1, 2003, pp. 53-70.

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65. 'Contingency and the “Time of the Dream:” Kuki Shuzo and French Prewar Philosophy' in Philosophy East and West 50:4, Oct. 2000.

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ON RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY

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66. 'Vassilij Sesemann: Formalism, Neo-Kantianism, and the Question of Being' in Slavic and East European Journal 46:4, 2002, p. 511-549.

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67. 'A New Approach to the Psychic Subject: Vassilij Sesemann, Bakhtin, Lacan' in Essays in Poetics: Journal of the Neo-Formalist Circle Oct. 2000, pp. 11-40. Finnish version in Synteesi 1998: 2.

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68. 'A Mediator Between Russia and the West: V. Sesemann as a Philosopher and Semiotician' in E. Tarasti (ed.): The Finnish School of Semiotics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)

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69. 'Empathy vs. Abstraction: 20th Century Interactions of German and Russian Aesthetics or Attempts to Retrieve the World' in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 9:2, June 2007 (online).

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70. 'The Structuralist as a Doctor: Thoughts on Lotman, Bakhtin and Gadamer' in Essays in Poetics: Journal of the Neo-Formalist Circle 21, 1996, p. 103-134.

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ON JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY

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71. 'Philosophical Conceptions of Cultural Space in Russia and Japan: Comparing Nishida Kitaro and Semën Frank' in Society and Space 4, 2008, 842–859. Russian summary

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72. 'Russian and Japanese Philosophies: A Comparative Study' in Philosophical Frontiers: A Journal of Emerging Thought 3:1, 2008, 65-85.

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73. 'Russia, Japan, China, and the Resistance to Modernity: Eurasianism and Pan-Asianism Revisited' in The International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association (IJAPA) 1:3, 2008.

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74. 'From Community to Time-Space-Development: Trubetzkoy, Nishida, Watsuji' in Asian Philosophy 17:3, 2007.

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75. 'Virtual Reality and Virtual Irreality: On Noh-Plays and Icons' in Theandros: The Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy 2:2, 2004 (short version online). Long version in TBB: Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan).

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76. 'The I and the Thou: A Dialogue between Nishida Kitaro and Mikhail Bakhtin' in Japan Review 16, 2004, pp. 251-275.

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ON CHINESE PHILOSOPHY

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77. 'Genes, Memes, and the Chinese Concept of Wen (文): Towards a Nature/Culture Model of Genetics' in Philosophy East and West 60:2 April 2010.

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78. 'Confucianism, Puritanism, and the Transcendental: China and America' in ProtoSociology 28, 2011. [Special issue: China’s Modernization 1]

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ON AFRICAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

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79. 'Coolness between Virtue Ethics and Aesthetics' (Chapter 5 of The Cool Kawaii)

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ON THE DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY / METAPHILOSOPHY

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80. ‘A Corpus-Based Computational Analysis of Philosophical Texts: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy’ (with Mohamed M. Mostafa) in the International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing (IJSHC) 2: 3–4, 2017, 230–246.

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81. 'The Heated French Debate on Comparative Philosophy Continues: Philosophy vs. Philology' [on the Jullien-Billeter debate] in Philosophy East & West 64:1, Jan. 2014, 218-28. See discussion here: Comment by Ralph Weber. Reply by Botz-B. to Weber.

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82. 'Is Critical Regionalist Philosophy Possible? Some Meta-Philosophical Considerations' in Comparative and Continental Philosophy 2:1, April 2010.

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83. 'Ethnophilosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Pragmatism: Towards a Philosophy of Ethnoscapes' in Philosophy East and West 56:1, Jan. 2006. Reprinted in T.B.B. (ed.), Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Tendencies of Cultural Revival in Contemporary Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006).

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See also: 'An Interview with Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Philosophy and Culture' in Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research 10:1, 2014.

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ON BIOETHICS

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84. 'America and Viagra: How the White Negro Became a Little Whiter' in T. Botz-Bornstein (ed.) The Philosophy of Viagra (New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011).

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85. 'Genes and Pixels: Bio-Genetics' Virtual Aesthetics' in Angelaki 11: 2 2006.

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86. 'Red Pill of Blue Pill? Viagra and the Virtual' in T. Botz-Bornstein (ed.) The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World (New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011).

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87. 'Critical Posthumanism' in Pensamiento y Cultura 15:1, 2012.

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ON HERMENEUTICS / INTERPRETATION THEORY

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88. 'Hermeneutics of Play – Hermeneutics of Place: On Play, Style, and Dream’ in B. Janz (ed.) Hermeneutics, Space, and Place (Springer Publishers, 2016).

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89. '"Art", Habitus, and Style in Herder, Humboldt, Hamann, and Vossler: Hermeneutics and Linguistics' in Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 13, 2014, 121-139.

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90. 'Speech, Writing, and Play in Gadamer and Derrida' in Cosmos and History: The Journal of Social and Natural Philosophy 9:1, July 2013, 1-16.

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91. 'Hermeneutics of Play: The Absent Structure' in Tropos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism 5: 1, 2012, 139-56.

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ON AESTHETICS / STYLISTICS

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92. NEW: ‘ISIS and Futurist Terrorism versus Cyberpunk’ in Contemporary Aesthetics 7, Special Volume on “Aesthetics and Terrorism” ed. by E. Aretoulakis, 2019.

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93. ‘The “Futurist” Aesthetics of ISIS' in The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 9: 1, 2017, 1-13.

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94. 'The Aesthetic Experiences of Kitsch and Bullshit’ in Aesthetics and Literature 26, 2016, 1-22.

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95. 'Kitsch and Bullshit' in Philosophy and Literature 39:2, October 2015, 305-321.

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96. 'If Barbey d’Aurevilly had known about Virtual Reality: Dandyism Revisited' in International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 6:1, 2009.

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97. 'Can Memes Play Games? Memetics and the Problem of Space' in T. Botz-Bornstein (ed.): Culture, Nature, Memes: Dynamic Cognitive Theories (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)

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98. 'The Dream of Language: Wittgenstein's Concept of Dream in the Context of "Style" and "Lebensform"' in The Philosophical Forum 34:1, 2003, 73-90.

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99. 'Style and Anti-Style: A Modern Adventure' in International Yearbook of Aesthetics Vol. 9 (International Association for Aesthetics, 2006).

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100. '"Ver-fremdung" against "Ent-fremdung": Stylistics against Post-Modernism?' in E. Oesch, T. Vadén & I. Koskinen (eds.) Methods of Reading (Tampere University Press, 1995) 223-236.

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1o1. 'Rulefollowing in Dandyism: Style as an Overcoming of Rule and Structure' in The Modern Language Review, 90, April 1995, p. 285-295.

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102. 'Dream, Style and Stylization: Reflections on Spinoza' in Copula 21, 2004.

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ON ART / PAINTING

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103. 'The Problem of the Double Ego in Paul Delvaux and Husserl' in Phenomenological Inquiry 33, 2009.

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104. 'Frozen Dreams between East and West: Kitsch and Anti-Kitsch in Jeff Koons and Mariko Mori' in Art in Society 9, 2010.

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105. 'The Transcendental Blandness of YAN Pei-Ming’s International Landscapes' in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 8:4 July 2009. Download as pdf - Available in French

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106. 'New Portraits of the Ugly Chinaman: The Art of LIU Xiaodong' in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7:2 March 2008.

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107. 'Paul Delvaux: Dreams, Landscapes and "Double Egos".' Catalog Text for the exposition 'Paul Delvaux' at the Museum of Foreign Art, Helsinki Oct. 2000 (republished in French on this site).

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V. Publications in French

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108. 'Le harcèlement sexuel, conséquence d’une « mauvaise culture » ou de la « nature dangereuse » de l’homme' in The Conversation Feb. 22, 2018.

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109. ‘Transfigurations Européennes: Eurafrique et Eurasie. Coudenhove-Kalergi et N.S. Trubetzkoy Revisités’ in Street Voice / Voces de la calle / Voix dans les rues, 6, 2015.

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110. 'Recension de Claude-Raphaël Samama : L'Enchantement d'Uriel' in Europe no. 1014, Oct. 2013.

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111. 'H–Sang Seung : Le design est non-design' dans Figures de l’art: Revue d’études estétiques 25, Nov. 2013 ("Philosophie du Design").

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112. 'L'insipidité transcendentale des paysages internationaux de Yan Pei-Ming' published on the author's website.

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113. 'New World Modernity Afro-Japonaise: De Cornel West à Kenzaburo Ôe' dans L’Art du Comprendre (Paris: Vrin) 19, 2010.

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114. 'Shuzo Kuki et la "philosophie de la contingence" française. Une Communication unique entre l'Orient et l'Occident' in Revue Philosophique de Louvain fév. 1999.

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115. 'Chôra: L'Espace du rêve et la question de l'authenticité' in A. Berque (ed.) Logique du lieu et dépassement de la modernité (Bruxelles: Ousia, 1999).

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116. 'Le "je" et le "tu": un dialogue entre Nishida Kitaro et Mikhail Bakhtine in Jacynthe Tremblay (ed.) Enjeux de la philosophie japonaise du XXe siècle (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2007).

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117. 'De Aalto à Ando ou la recherche de la "vraie" forme d'habitation' in L'Architecture Japonaise et l'Occident: De la communication interculturelle en architecture. Special issue of Daruma (Toulouse: 2006).

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118. 'La Maison Stonborough de Wittgenstein et l'architecture de Tadao Ando: Deux approches exceptionelles vers la modernité' in L'Architecture Japonaise et l'Occident: De la communication interculturelle en architecture (Toulouse: Daruma, 2007).

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119. 'Réalité virtuelle et rêve. Vers la condition autiste?' in L'Aleph 12, déc. 2003. Télécharger pdf.

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120. 'De la pâte des rêves et du cinéma de la cruauté: Quelques pensées sur Andrei Tarkovski' dans Stalker.

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121. 'Interprétation nishidien d'une remarque de Sartre sur le style' in M. Sicard + L. Guillain (eds): Sartre et le Zen (Paris: M-Editer, 2005).

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122. 'L'expérience pure et la conscience du jeu: Nishida Kitaro et William James' in L'Art du Comprendre (Paris) 16, 2007.

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123. 'Résistants et esclaves: Le Japon, la Chine et le Pan-Asiatisme' (texte pour l'Atelier Asie, Paris 2007). Télécharger pdf.

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124. 'Les rêves dans le Bouddhisme et dans l’esthétique occidentale: Questions de style, de jeu et d’espace' in Editions Léo Scheer m@nuscrits pdf