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

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)