I am a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University.

I am interested in thought and its other—its will and capacity to receive, determine, and create. In particular, I am interested in the constellation of nature, history, thinking, and transcendence. I pursue this question in Greek philosophy, German Idealism and Romanticism, Heidegger, and Adorno.

I am also interested in aesthetics and philosophy of art, especially how art, standing firmly in the realm of semblance and experience, embodies the utmost metaphysical significance.

I am currently working on my dissertation, titled “Semblance and Transcendence: Adorno and the Problem of Metaphysics in German Idealism.” Tracing the motif of semblance vis-à-vis metaphysics through Kant, Hegel, and Adorno, I propose a reading of Adorno’s “redemption of semblance” as a project that is not confined to his Aesthetic Theory, but key to his meditation on metaphysics in Negative Dialectics as a critique-rescue of the problem of metaphysics in German Idealism.

I studied at The New School for Social Research, School of Visual Arts, and Peking University.

Faculty Advisor: Espen Hammer
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