Eric S. Nelson

Eric Sean Nelson (born 1968) is a North American philosopher and Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is known for his works in the continental tradition and Chinese and Buddhist philosophy as well as intercultural philosophy. He is also recognized for hermeneutics, life-philosophy, and phenomenology.

Books Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom, Bloomsbury, 2023. Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life, Routledge, 2021. Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other, SUNY, 2020. Eric S. Nelson (ed.), Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press, 2019. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Critical Philosophy: Science, Reflexivity, Individuality, Bloomsbury, 2027. Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought, Bloomsbury, 2017. John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson (eds.), Between Levinas and Heidegger, SUNY Press, 2014. Eric S. Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still (eds.), Addressing Levinas, Northwestern University Press, 2005.