Dr. Jordan Kynes
Research Team | Translator
E-Mail: kynes[at]uni-hildesheim.de
Room: Main Campus, H.0.11
Bio
Jordan Kynes was born in Clearwater, Florida, in 1982 and initially studied philosophy at the University of Florida. He then taught English in Santiago, Chile, before moving to Germany to pursue a Master’s degree in Religion and Culture at Humboldt University in Berlin. He graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies from the same university on the thought of the Moroccan philosopher Moḥammed ʿĀbed al-Jābrī.
Research
Contemporary philosophy in the Arabic-speaking world, philosophy of science, educational theories, translation
Regions
MENA Region
Languages
English, Spanish, German, French, Arabic, Persian (Farsi)
articles
“Between Poetry and Doctrine: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Translation as an Approach to Interreligious Hermeneutics,”Mausolf, J., and Zemmrich, E. (eds.), Vielfalt und Anerkennung: Facetten religionsbezogener Forschung im Kontakt zu Andreas Feldtkeller, Leipzig: EVA, 2023.
“The Function of Bachelardian Epistemology in the Post-colonial Project of Mohammed ’Ābed al-Jābri,” Hensold et al (eds.), Religion in Motion: Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World, Springer, 2020.