Prof. Dr. Iddo Dickmann (狄一多)
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Nanjing University
Department of Philosophy and Religion, NJU
The Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies, NJU
Area of specialization: Continental Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy, Rabbinic Literature, Aesthetics
Area of competence: Jewish Literature, Jewish History, Israel Studies
Email: iddo_dickmann@nju.edu.cn; ido.dnn@gmail.com
Address: Department of Philosophy, Xue Guanglin Building, Room 424. Xianlin Campus, Nanjing, 210023
Educational background
PhD Bar-Ilan University
MA Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BA Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Personal profile
I joined the Department in 2021, having previously taught and conducted research at the University of Colorado Boulder, Penn-State University, Cambridge University, The Catholic University of Louvain, and Vilnius University.Israeli born, my degrees are from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University, and I am a graduate of Har-Etzion Talmudic College. My areas of specialization are Continental Philosophy (especially contemporary French Thought), and Jewish Philosophy (especially Rabbinic). In my research I put these three fields into dialogue, and I am entrusted with teaching courses in both. My publications include, among other things, a monograph with SUNY Press entitled The Little Crystalline Seed: The Ontological Significance of Mise en abyme in Post-Heideggerian Thought (SUNY Press)
Research interests
In my monograph and subsequent publications, I have argued that Deleuze, Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Foucault and Bergson, with Kant, Leibniz and Heidegger as precursors, invoked the concept of mise en ebyme, or aesthetic self-reference, from Poetics, to use it as a paradigm shift in Philosophy. My research into Rabbinic Thought shows it to consist in types of mises en abyme, known to neither Poetics nor Philosophy. My upcoming research-project “Poetics and the Logic of Life” will apply the phenomenology and poetics of self-reference to Biosemiotics and Origin of Life theories.
Publications
Monographs
Dickmann, I. (2019) The Little Crystalline Seed: The Ontological Significance of the Mise en abyme in Post-Heideggerian Thought. New York: State University of New York Press. SUNY Series: “Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory”, edited by Rodolph Gasché.
Papers in international refereed journals
Dickmann, I. (2015) “’The Book as Assemblage with the Outside’ – The Rhizomatic Book as a Radical Case of Open Work.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 46(1): 16-32
Dickmann, I. (2017) “Using Mise en abyme to Differentiate Deleuze and Derrida.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 48(1):63-80
Dickmann, I. (2018) “The Sefer as a Challenge to Reception Theories.” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 26 (1): 67-93
Dickmann, I. (2018) “’Infinite Responsibility’ and the Pitfall of Negation: A Deleuzian Critique of Levinas”. Philosophy Today, 62(3): 765-783
Dickmann, I. (2019) “The Gift of Get: A Derridean Reading of Tractate Gittin”. The Heythrop Journal, 61: 903-912
Dickmann, I. (accepted, forthcoming) “Tractate Shabbat and the Phenomenology of Play”. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
Dickmann, I. (accepted, forthcoming) “Double-Mirror Gaze, Transcoded Testimony, and Disqualified Witnesses in the Talmud”. Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Dickmann, I. (accepted, forthcoming) “Infames, Roman Judicial Theatre, and the Mimesis of Process”, Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy
Chapters in edited collections
Dickmann, I. (2016) “Mise en abyme and Levinas’s ‘Infinite Responsibility’” in Emmanuel Levinas: a Radical Thinker in the Time of Crisis, R. Serpytye(ed.), Vilnius University Press, 131-138
Courses:
Graduate:
Introduction to Jewish Philosophy
Introduction to Rabbinic Thought and Literature
Undergraduate:
French Thought: From Existentialism to Post-Structuralism
Language Skills:
Hebrew: Native
English: Proficient
French: Proficient
Spanish: Independent
Arabic: Independent
Mandarin: Basic-intermediary (HSK2)