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I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia

Select Publications:

Dōgen's Texts: Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy?

“Philosophy, Not-Philosophy, Non-Philosophy—Dōgen’s Religio-Philosophical Zen”

“Revitalizing the Familiar: A Practical Application of Dōgen’s Transformative Zen” 

The Nietzschean Bodhisattva—
Passionately Navigating Indeterminacy
 

The Role of Compassion in Actualizing Dōgen's Zen

Beyond Sexism: The Need for an Intersectional Approach to Confucianism

Wherefore the Failure of Private Ostension?

Private Language - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry co-authored with Stewart Candlish

Language and Concepts in Relation to Enlightenment On and Off the Cushion in Chan/Zen Buddhism
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Religions

Unpublished Drafts

Dissertation: Realism and Conceptual Relativity

Philosophy as Good for Nothing: Wittgenstein, Socrates, and the Ends and End of Philosophy

Dōgen as Philosopher, Dōgen’s Philosophical Zen

Letting go of the "I": Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Bodhisattva Ideal 

The Buddha Still Rides a Bike: Wittgenstein, Dōgen, and the Entanglement of Language and Enlightenment

Two Dogmas of Zen Buddhism

Nietzsche and the Value of Suffering



 

George Wrisley

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Jennie Kinneberg Wrisley in Memoriam

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“Is human life always this bewildering, or am I the only bewildered one?”
            Zhuangzi

„hin und her und hin und her gerissen / zwischen verstehen wollen und handeln müssen“
            Blumfeld

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