College of Humanities People
Thomas Kasulis, Professor
Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/
440 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: kasulis.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-7892
Fax: 614-292-7553
Education:
Ph.D in Philosophy, Yale University
General Background:
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Yale University
Teaching and ResearchComparative Religion, Japanese Religious Thought and Western Philosophy.
Thomas Kasulis is past Chair of the Department of Comparative Studies. He has written numerous books and scholarly articles on Japanese religious thought and Western philosophy, including Zen Action/Zen Person (University of Hawaii Press, 1989). He has co-edited for SUNY Press a three-volume series comparing Asian and Western ideas of self in different cultural arenas: Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (1993), Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice (1994), and Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice (1998), as well as The Recovery of Philosophy in America: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Smith (1997). He is author of Intimacy and Integrity (University of Hawaii Press, 2002), a comparative cultural philosophy of relationship, and is currently working on a short history of Japanese philosophy.
Critical and Cultural Theory
Culture
Religion
