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Jin Y Park Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy & Religion Philosophy and Religion

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Jin Y Park
(202) 885-2919 (Office)
CAS | Philosophy/Religion
Battelle-Tompkins 118
Office Hours (Spring 2023)
Tuesday 2:00-4:00 pm
Degrees
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook; MA, New York University; MA, Yonsei University; BA, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)

Bio
Jin Y. Park is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religion at 国产小呦女. She also served as Founding Director of Asian Studies Program from 2013-2020. Park specializes in East Asian Buddhism, Buddhist and comparative ethics, intercultural philosophy, and modern East Asian philosophy. Her research focuses on gender, violence, politics of discrimination, and narrative philosophy. Marginality has been a consistent theme in her scholarship which deals with the marginalization of non-West and non-Western philosophy, of women鈥檚 philosophy, and of some forms of philosophizing, revealing the power structure in philosophy and aiming for the voices of the margin to be heard.

Park currently serves as President of the American Academy of Religion and also President of the North American Korean Philosophy Association. She also served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (2018-2019).

Park鈥檚 research in Buddhism focuses on the Zen and Huayan schools of East Asian Buddhism on language, violence, and ethics. In her comparative study, Park reads Zen and Huayan Buddhism together with postmodern thought in Continental philosophy, with a special focus on Jacques Derrida鈥檚 deconstruction.

Park鈥檚 research on modern East Asian philosophy examines the dawn of philosophy in East Asia and the East-West encounter in this context.

In her monograph Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist-Postmodern Ethics (2008), Park discusses Buddhism and continental philosophy on the topics of, among others, self, language, and violence. In this book, Park offers the "ethics of tension" as a potential ethical paradigm drawn from Buddhism and postmodern philosophy.

Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun (2014), is a translation of a book published in Korean in 1960 by Kim Iry艔p (1896-1971), a writer, first-generation Korean feminist, Buddhist nun, and philosopher. In this book, Kim Iry艔p offers a creative interpretation of Buddhist philosophy and practice.

In Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryop (2017), Park proposes a new mode of philosophizing based on the discussion of Kim Iry艔p鈥檚 life and philosophy.

Park is also the editor of volumes: Buddhisms and Deconstructions (2006), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (co-edited, 2009), Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy (2009), and Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism (2010).
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • PHIL-380 Colloquium in Philosophy: Nonviolence: Phil and Practice

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Books

  • New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism (co-edited with Hwansoo Ilmee Kim). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022.
  • Approaches to Chan, Son, Zen Buddhism (co-edited with Albert Welter and Steven Heine). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022.
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Selected Recent publications (Book chapters and Journal articles)

2022

  1. 鈥淎ction and Praxis in Modern Korean Philosophy.鈥 In Key Concepts in World Philosophies: Everything You Need to Know About Doing Cross-Cultural Philosophy, edited by Sarah Flavel and Chiara Robbiano. London: Bloomsbury Academics, 2022.

2020

  1. 鈥淎n Examined Life: Women, Buddhism, and Philosophy in Kim Iry艔p.鈥 Journal of World Philosophies 5 (Winter 2020): 176-18
  2. 鈥淗yeam S艔nsa 怒i S艔n sasang kwa Han鈥檊uk Pulgyo 怒i segyehwa鈥 (S艔n Master Hyeam鈥檚 Buddhist thoughts and the globalization of Korean Buddhism). Hyeam S艔nsa 怒i S艔n Sasang kwa Segyehwa (S艔n Master Hyeam鈥檚 Buddhist thoughts and globalization). Hyeam S艔nsa muhwa chinh怒nghoe, ed. Seoul: Sihwa怒m, 2020, 97-136.听 听听
  3. 鈥淒oing Philosophy at the Margin.鈥 American Philosophical Association鈥檚 Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies 20, no 1 (Fall 2020): 55-57.

2019

  1. 鈥淟iving without a Canopy: Flanagan, Derrida, and Zen Buddhism on the Production of Meaning鈥 In Naturalism and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond, edited by Bongrae Seok. Routledge 2019, 92-110.
  2. 鈥淭emporality and Non-temporality in Li Tongxuan鈥檚 Huayan Buddhism.鈥 In Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: Dharma and Dao, edited by Sandra A. Wawrytko and Youru Wang. Springer, 2019, 325-347.
  3. 鈥淜y艔ngh艔 Songu and the Existential Dimensions of Modern Korean Buddhism.鈥 Journal of Korean Religions 10, no. 2 (Oct 2019): 247-274.
  4. 鈥淟aw of Genre and Intercultural Philosophy: A Reading of Kwok-ying Lau鈥檚 Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding.鈥 Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18, no. 1 (January 2019): 119-126.

2018

  1. 鈥淭occata and Fugue of a Stranger.鈥 脡迟谤补苍驳别迟茅, vol. 2 (2018):109-125.
  2. 鈥淩eligion beyond the Limits of Reason: Inoue Enry艒, Kim Iry艔p, and Tanabe Hajime on Philosophy of Religion.鈥 In Reconfiguring Philosophy of Religion, edited by Jim Kanaris. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018, 131-150.

2017

  1. 鈥淧hilosophizing and Power: East-West Encounter in the Formation of Modern East Asian Buddhist Philosophy.鈥 Philosophy East and West 67, no. 3 (July 2017): 801-823.
  2. 鈥淶en Buddhism and the Space of Ethics.鈥 In A Mirror is For Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics, edited by Jake Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 73-91.
  3. 鈥淒erida wa Pulgyo, y艔s艔ng k怒rigo p鈥檕ngny艔k e kwanhay艔鈥 (On Derrida, Buddhism, Women, and Violence). Pulgyo p鈥檡艔ngnon (The Buddhist Review) 70 (Summer 2017): 31-50.
  4. 鈥淧艔phwagy艔ng saropkye ilgi, k怒rigo chonggyoj艔k segyegwan e tahay艔鈥 (A new reading of the Lotus S奴tra, and about a religious worldview), Modern Buddhism (December 2016-January 2017).

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Professional Services

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • President (Nov 2023-Nov 2024),
  • President (2016-present), North American Korean Philosophy Association
  • President (2018-2019),
  • Editorial Board Member (2010-present),
  • Founding Director (2001- 2018),

Grants and Sponsored Research

  • The Uberoi Foundation Religious Studies Grant
  • Academy of Korean Studies, Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies, Co-Researcher, on the project "Traces of Reason:听The Korean Approach to Logic and Rationality and Its RElation to Buddhist Traditions from India and China"
  • Mellon Fellowship
  • American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant
  • Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant
  • Academy of Korean Studies, Translation of Korean Buddhism Grant
  • Korea University, International Center for Korean Studies, Korean Studies Publication Series Grant