ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how dialectics and philosophy of difference have become layers of Heinz Kimmerle’s approach to intercultural philosophy. It engages in a dynamic intersection of Heidegger, Hegel and Derrida and discusses how Heidegger and the Japanese philosophers Nishida and Ohashi have influenced each other. It also addresses how Kimmerle’s approach is close to Lyotard’s and Irigaray’s. Furthermore, it explores which aspects of Kimmerle’s intercultural dimension of philosophy can be discerned to enhance epistemic justice. In Kimmerle’s later work, thinking of differences comes to the foreground, while he also begins re-evaluating Hegel and addresses racist elements in Hegel’s writing. Kimmerle advocates for a turn from dialectics to philosophy of difference in Verschil en Tegenstelling (1981), without abandoning dialectics completely as a method of philosophy. How he relates thinking of differences to marginalized migrants, women and nature clearly comes to the foreground in Philosophie des Wir (1983). This chapter also addresses Kimmerle’s notion of ‘inter’.
