Dr. Karl Kraatz
Dr. Karl Kraatz
Philosopher, Sinologist
Assoc. Prof. at Zhejiang University
Publisher and Founder Synopsis Verlag.
Editor-in-Chief and Cofounder Eksistenz
AOS: Heidegger's Philosophy, Philosophy of AI, AI Ethics, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology
Projects: Heidegger's Late Philosophy, Rise of Functionalism, Informationalism, Dataism, Heidegger and AI, AI and Philosophy
Publications
Books
- Das Sein zur Sprache bringen. Die formale Anzeige als Kern der Begriffs- und Bedeutungstheorie Martin Heideggers.
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2022. (Link)
(Bringing Being to Language. The Formal Indication as the Core of Martin Heidegger's Theory of Concepts and Meaning.)
(Abstract - Zusammenfassung (deutsch)) (Table of Contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis)
Review by R. Reimer (Universität Leipzig ) in Phenomenological Reviews:
https://reviews.ophen.org/2023/07/14/karl-kraatz-das-sein-zur-sprache-bringen/
- Die Methodologie von Martin Heideggers Philosophie. Über die Grenzen der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaft und die Möglichkeiten der Philosophie.
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020. (Link)
(The Methodology of Martin Heidegger's Philosophy. The Limitations of Modern Science and the Possibilities of Philosophy.)
(Abstract (english) / (german)) (table of contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis) (Preview1) (Preview2)
Review (in English) by N. Schneider (London, Kingston University) in Phenomenological Reviews:
https://reviews.ophen.org/2021/07/19/karl-kraatz-die-methodologie-von-martin-heideggers-philosophie-2/
Articles
- „Martin Heideggers formal anzeigende Ethik. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritik an seinem ethischen Denken."
in: STUDIA PHÆNOMENOLOGICA, Vol. XXV (2025), S. 297–324, https://doi.org/10.5840/studphaen20252514
- "The Methodological Significance of Feelings. Heidegger's Reconceptualization of Philosophical Knowledge and Truth."
in: Prolegomena, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 175-199. https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/clanak/467123 (A&HCI)
- „Entweder Sein oder Seiendes“ – über ein fundamentales Missverständnis Heideggers Seinsbegriffes."
in: Synthesis Philosophica, vol. 39, no. 1, 2024, pp. 159-183. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp39109 . (A&HCI)
- "Why AI Art Is Not Art – A Heideggerian Critique",
Kraatz, K. & Xie, S. (2023). in: Reflections on Technological Advances, Synthesis philosophica, 38 (2), 235-253. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp38201 . (A&HCI)
- "超越康德 —— 论海德格尔的存在论伦理学" "Going beyond Kant. Heidegger's Ontological Ethics",
transl. by Chen Wei and edited by Wang Hongjian, in: 《德国哲学》总第43辑, 版次:2023年10月第1版. (CSSCI)
- "Resoluteness as a Philosophical Method. A New Look at Being at Time",
in: Synthesis Philosophica, Vol. 37, No. 1, Nov. 2022, DOI: 10.21464/sp37107 https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/file/412659 (A&HCI)
- "Martin Heidegger's Transcendental Ontology. The Necessity of a Factical Transcendental Subject",
in: Idealistic Studies, Vol. 52, Issue 2, Summer 2022, pp. 133-155, https://doi.org/10.5840/idstudies2022727144 (A&HCI)
- "A New Look at Being and Time: Martin Heidegger's Self-Criticism in on my Own Publications"
in: The Review of Metaphysics 75, MARCH 2022, VOL. LXXV, No. 3 ISSUE, No. 299, pp. 501-524. (A&HCI)
- „Die Formalität der formalen Anzeige als deren Prinzipialität. Die Allgemeinheit philosophischer Begriffe",
in: Eksistenz, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2022, pp. 91-110. (Link zum Artikel (Open Access))
- „Selbstverantwortung als Kern einer ontologischen Ethik. Martin Heideggers Anknüpfung an Immanuel Kants praktische Philosophie",
in: Harald Seubert, Manuela Massa, Valentina Dafne de Vita (Hrsgg.), Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit der Freiheit: Kant und Heidegger über Freiheit, Willen und Recht, Exaiphnes Verlag, September 2022.
- „Wissenschaftliche und Philosophische Zeit: Martin Heideggers Kritik der traditionellen Zeitvorstellung",
in: In Anderen Zeiten, Brisca Hohenwald, Neele Illner (eds.), Berlin: Frank und Timme Verlag, 2022.
- „Martin Heidegger über das Verhältnis von Leben und Kunst",
in: Leben im lebendigen Fragen. Perspektiven im Spannungsverhältnis der Geisteswissenschaften. Franziska Neufeld, Dr. Chiara Pasqualin, Anne Kirstine Rønhede, Sihan Wu (Hrsgg.), Alber Verlag 2021.
- „Die vermeintliche Rückständigkeit Chinas. Erklärungsversuche chinesischer Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts“.
In: Kulturen und Methoden. Aspekte interkulturellen Philosophierens, hrsg. v. Anna Zschauer, Robert Lehmann, Tony Pacyna. InterCulturalPhilosophy 2020(1): 67–77. (Abstract) (Link zum Artikel (Open Access))
- „Das Verhältnis von Sein und Sollen als das Problem des Bösen bei Susan Neiman und Martin Heidegger",
in: Das Böse erzählen. E. Brock/A. Honnacker (Hrsgg). Münster: Lit Verlag 2017. (Bsp.)
- „Martin Heideggers methodologische Grundlegung der Phänomenologie. Eine Theorie der philosophischen Begriffsbildung",
in: Perspektiven mit Heidegger. G. Thonhauser (Hrsg.). Freiburg/München: Karl Alber Verlag 2017. (Abstract)
(Reviews)
- "Haugeland, John: Dasein Disclosed", in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur (Bd. 2, Nr. 4, 2014).
https://doi.org/10.21827/zfphl.2.4.35346
- "Haugeland, John: Giving a Damn", in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur (Bd. 5, Nr. 3, 2017).
https://doi.org/10.21827/zfphl.5.3.35403
- "Herrmann, F. W. v.: Transzendenz und Ereignis", in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur (Bd. 8, Nr. 2, 2020).
https://doi.org/10.21827/zfphl.8.2.35811
- "Neue Ansätze zu Heideggers Begriffstheorie und Gadamers Heidegger-Kritik in Hongjian Wangs Ontologie der Praxis bei Martin Heidegger", in: META: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, And Practical Philosophy (vol. XIII, no.1/ 06/2021), 272-279. http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/272-279-br-kraatz-meta-2021-no1.pdf
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Lectures/Vorträge
- (2025) "Martin Heidegger's Philosophy of the Heart. The Beginning of a Dialogue with Confucianism," CHINESE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIND AND THE WORLD. DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHINESE AND GERMAN PHILOSOPHY, International Confucian Association, Guiyang, 25-27 July 2025.
- (2025) "Martin Heidegger on the Main Problem of German Idealism. The Problem of Transcendence," Sichuan-University, Chengdu, Conference on Phenomenology and German Philosophy, 8-10 May 2025.
- (2025) "The Metaphysics of AI. How AI is Changing the Way We Think," Lecture in the Lecture-Series: "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy", Hangzhou, China, April 11th, 2025.
- (2024) "Heidegger and AI. Understanding the Paradigm-Shift from Scientism to Dataism", Lecture in a Lecture-Series on Frontier-Problems in Western Philosophy, Zhejiang-University, 22. October 2024.
- (2024) "Heidegger on 'The Greatest and Most Concealed Secret of Hegel's Philosophizing'. The Original Positive Function of the Negative.", Conference on "German Idealism", organized by Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 26-27 October 2024.
- (2024) "Heidegger on Transcendence and Overcoming Transcendence", Conference on Phenomenology in Germany and China, organized by Tongji-University, Shanghai, China, Conference, 21-22nd September 2024.
- (2024) "Heidegger on Questions Concerning the Levelling of Language. Can AI speak Poetically?", Organized by Alfred Denker in cooperation with the European Center for Heidegger Studies, International Online Conference on "Thanking - Thinking - Poetizing", 28-29th September 2024.
- (2023) "Probing the Core of the Machine. Reflections on the Implicit Presuppositions of AI Research", Lecture in the Lecture Series "The Philosophy of Intelligence" at Beijing University, Foreign Philosophy Department, Hosted by S. Sunday (Nov. 24th).
- (2023) "Thrown into Transcendence, Heidegger's Concept of Factical Transcendence and the Transformation of Epistemology into Ontology", Talk at the Workshop Series: 南大外哲论谭:古今视域下的 “超越" Transzendenz/Transzendent/Transzendental, No. 6: Heidegger, Nanjing, China (Nov. 4th).
- (2023) "Heideggerian Critique of AI Art, Why AI Art is not Art", Talk at the 3rd International Conference of the Heidegger Circle in Asia (HCIA), Taipeh/Taiwan.
- (2023) "The Question of Being and the Ontological Difference as 'Inevitable Challenges' for Thinking. Heidegger on the Necessity of the Holzwege in his Final Notebooks." Organized by Alfred Denker in cooperation with the European Center for Heidegger Studies, the Martin-Heidegger-Archiv Meßkirch, the Archivo-Heidegger del Universidad de Sevilla, and the Centro des Estudios Heideggerianos de Frigiliana.
- (2023) (Five Lectures) "Transcendence and Finitude. Heidegger's Criticism of Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl." "The 2023 Heidegger Lectures" organized by the Center For Hermeneutics in East and West, Hunan University (Online and Offline).
- (2023) "The Metaphysics of AI, Heidegger's Nietzsche", "Machenschaft, Wille zur Macht und Künstliche Intelligenz, Heideggers Nietzsche", Talk at the Philosophy Department of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. (March 2023)
- (2023) "Heideggerian AI -- Still not Heideggerian enough?" Vortrag bei der Internationalen Konferenz "Philosophie und Technik" der Shenzhen Technology University in China.
- (2022) "Heidegger on Education. Being and Time as a Modern Allegory of the Cave", Vortrag bei der Internationalen Education-Summer School der Jiangsu Normal University in China.
- (2022) "Heidegger und Schelling - Über die notwendige Ontologisierung der Transzendentalphilosophie". Vortrag bei der 6. Internationalen Heidegger-Konferenz "Heidegger und Schelling - Schelling und Heidegger" in Meßkirch.
- (2022) "Heideggers 'Natorp-Bericht' von 1922" - Kommentar und Vortrag in einer Vortragsreihe an der Hunan-Universität zum 100. Jubiläum von Heideggers 'Natorp-Bericht', organisiert von Prof. Wang Hongjian an der Hunan-Universität, China.
- (2022) "Heideggers Ethik -- Ein Forschungsbericht", International Conference", Martin Heidegger, Current Studies in his Philosophy and Thinking", Organized by Alfred Denker in cooperation with the Martin-Heidegger-Archiv Meßkirch, the Archivo-Heidegger del Universidad de Sevilla, and the Centro des Estudios Heideggerianos de Frigiliana.
- (2022) "Die Möglichkeit einer ontologischen Ethik in Heideggers Philosophie", Online-Veranstaltung, Gruppe für chinesische und westliche Philosophie, Center for Hermeneutics in East and West, Hunan-University.
- (2021) "Martin Heideggers Wahrheitsbegriff. Philosophische und Wissenschaftliche Wahrheit", XXV. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Sektion 25, Phänomenologie.
(“Martin Heidegger’s Concept of Truth. Philosophical and Scientific Truth.”)
- (2021) "Martin Heideggers ontologische Ethik und Hans-Georg Gadamers Kritik", Online-Veranstaltung, Tagung für Hermeneutik, Hunan-University/China.
- (2021) "Selbstverantwortung als Kern einer ontologischen Ethik – Martin Heideggers Anknüpfung an Immanuel Kants praktischer Philosophie". Tagung der Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft. "Möglichkeit und Notwendigkeit der Freiheit bei Heidegger und Kant". Online-Veranstaltung bei Zoom.
- (2019) „Vom Leben zur Theorie: Die Methode von Martin Heideggers Philosophie“. Workshop „Herausforderung Leben – Dynamiken der Pluralisierung und Normalisierung“ an der Universität in Koblenz-Landau.
- (2017) „Der Einzelne als Zoon politikon? Ein Querschnitt durch die frühe Philosophie Martin Heideggers“. Conference: ‚Die Phänomenologie und das Politische‘, „Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung“ at the University in Hagen/Germany. (Abstract)
- (2017) „Ontologie als Metakritik der Erkenntnis. Transzendentalphilosophie in Sein und Zeit“. Martin Heidegger-Kolloquium in Meßkirch.
- (2016) "Martin Heideggers methodologische Grundlegung der Phänomenologie – eine Theorie der philosophischen Begriffsbildung". Internationale Martin Heidegger Nachwuchstagung in Wien. Veranstaltet und organisiert von Gerhard Thonhauser.
- (2015) "The methodical role of moods pre and in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time’", Workshop: ‘The Meaning of Moods’ of the European Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) in Basel/Switzerland.
- (2015) „Wissenschaft und Fortschritt. Eine phänomenologische Kritik am Fortschritt“, International Symposium of the Research Network „Deutscher Idealismus und Transzendentalphilosophie“. XIII. Annual Meeting in Berlin.
Übersetzungen/Translations
Beteiligt an drei Übersetzungen ins Chinesische zusammen mit 陈巍 (Chen Wei)
- Karl Jaspers, Was ist Erziehung? Ein Lesebuch (1982) (Co-translator)
- Karl Jaspers, Was ist Philosophie? (Co-Translator) (2025)
- Jürgen Habermas, Nachmetaphysisches Denken (1988) (Co-translator) (2025)
Editor/Publisher
Founder of Synopsis. Publishing House for Academic Books and Translations. Founded 2025 in Berlin, Germany.
Co-founder and Editor of "Eksistenz. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Intercultural Philosophy"
Website: https://eksistenz.net Cooperation with 未来哲学研究院 is planned.
Vol. 4 will be published end of 2025, Online and in Print, Berlin: Xenomoi. "Hermeneutics and Greek Philosophy."
Vol. 3 was published in Sept. 2024, Online and in Print, Berlin: Xenomoi. Issue on "Hermeneutics and Technology".
Vol. 2 was published in Dec. 2023, Online and in Print, Berlin: Xenomoi. Issue on "Hermeneutics and Ethics". Contributions by Deng Xiaomang, He Weiping, Wang Hongjian, Niu Wenjun, Thomas Sheehan, Steven Crowell, and Hans-Ulrich Lessing.
Vol. 1 was published in Dec. 2022, Online and in Print with the German publisher Xenomoi Verlag.
Topic of the first issue was Martin Heidegger's Formal Indication. With contributions of Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Alfred Denker, Eric S. Nelson, Hong Handing, Zhang Ke, Ferdinand Fellmann, and Pan Yizhi.
Link zur Homepage des Journals: https://eksistenz.net/
Educational Career
Projects: 2024
Project: Zhejiang University, General Education Course
Project name: "Philosophy of AI"
2022 – 2023
Young Foreign Talent Programme (外国青年人才计划)
Project name: "Intercultural Hermeneutics - East and West"
2021 – 2023
PostDoc-Project (China's National Postdoctoral Science Foundation)
Project name: “The Rise of Dataism – Heidegger and AI"
Affiliation: 2025.1 –
Associate Professor(长聘副教授)at Zhejiang University, Philosophy Department
2024.1 – 2024.12
Lecturer(讲师)at Zhejiang University, Philosophy Department
2023.5 – 2023.12
Assoc. Prof. at Hunan Normal University - Translation Studies (German, Chinese)
2022.1 - 2023.4
Assoc. Researcher at Hunan University - Yuelu-Academy
2021 – 2022
PostDoc - Hunan University - Yuelu-Academy
2017 – 2020
Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), TU Dresden (Germany)
2015 – 2019
Doktor (Dr.) of Philosophy, TU Dresden (Germany) (Supervisor: Thomas Rentsch)
2013/2014
Visiting Scholar at KU-Leuven (Belgium) (Husserl-Archives)
2012 – 2015
Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Philipps-Universität Marburg
2009 – 2012
Bachelor’s Degree in China-Studies and East-Asia-Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
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Teaching: 2025
Course Leader (M.A. Course) - Future Philosophy
Course Leader (M.A. Course) - German Philosophy
Course Leader (B.A. Course) - Philosophy and AI (Challenges of AI)
Course Leader (B.A. Course) - Philosophy and AI (AI Ethics, LLMs, Alignment)
2024
Course Leader (M.A. Course) - Transcendental Philosophy
2023/24
Course Leader "Heidegger's 'Insight Into That Which Is' - Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology"
2023
Course Leader (at 湖南师范大学): German Literature, German Writing, 等
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2023
Course Leader "Introduction to Western Philosophy"
2023
Course Leader "German Philosophy"
2023
Course Leader "Contributions to Philosophy. Ereignis"
2023
Course Leader "On the Essence of Truth"
2022
Course Leader "Sein und Zeit (Einleitung)" (Online)
2022
Course Leader "Martin Heidegger's Philosophie der Kunst" (Online)
2022
Course Leader "Einführung in die Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Online)
2022
Course Leader "Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 2" (Online)
2021
Course Leader "Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 1" (Online)
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2020
Course Leader "Martin Heidegger’s Ontology”, TU Dresden
2019
Course Leader "Chinese Philosophy", TU Dresden
2018
Course Leader "Philosophy of Science", TU Dresden
2017/2018
Course Leader "Martin Heidegger's Being and Time", TU Dresden
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2017
One of Three Main Organizers of the International Conference
“Phenomenology as Performative Exercise“ at the TU Dresden
Participating in several National Projects (in China) (in Philosophy)
Participating in one EU NRRP Project (2025-2029)