个人简介

EducationPh.D. New School for Social Research, New York, 2007M.A. Concordia University, Montreal, 2003M.A. University of Münster, 2003Professional Experience2019: Guest Professor, Kyoto University2015: Guest Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai2013: Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley2013-2015: Research Fellow, SYSU Guangzhou2011 – 2014: Humboldt Research Fellow, University of FrankfurtCourses Regularly TaughtPolitical Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy in the West, Ancient and Medieval European Philosophy, Philosophy and Film, Capitalism and Morality, Introduction to Logic

研究领域

Social and Political Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Aesthetics

近期论文

“Heimspiele: Kulturelle Identität in Zeiten des Populismus”, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 68:2, 2020, 319-323.“Intercultural Encounter in the Age of Hybridity: A Response to Eric Nelson”, in: Philosophy East and West, vol. 70:1, 2020, 225-237.“The Dao of Existence: Jaspers and Laozi”, in: David Chai (ed.), Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology: Thinking Interculturally about Human Existence, Bloomsbury, 2020, 135-158.“The Dignity of Utopian Imagination”, in: Saulius Geniusas (ed.) Social Imaginaries, special issue on “Creative Imagination”, vol. 5:1, 2019, 181-198.“Recognition and Trust: Hegel and Confucius on the Normative Basis of Ethical Life” (co-authored with Alexei Procyshyn), in: Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy), vol. 18:1, 2019, 1-22.“The Rhythm of Action”, in: Hans Feger, Dikun Xie, Wang Ge (eds.), Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.“Tragic Recognition: Revisiting Hegel’s Conception of Ethical Life”, in: Frontiers of Philosophy in China, vol. 13:4, 2018, 483-504.“Jaspers on Exemplary Individuals”, in: Omar Brino, Roberto Celada Ballanti, Roberto Garaventa (eds.), Studi Jaspersiani: Rivista Annuale della Società Italiana Karl Jaspers, vol. 6, Naples: Orthotes, 2018, 151-167.“Political Theology or Theology as Politics? Schmitt and Blumenberg on the Event of Modernity”, in: Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 61, 2018, 177-184.“On Gambling: The Provocation of Lady Fortune”, in: Thesis Eleven, vol. 143, 2017, 82-96.“Three Modes of Recovering Mysticism”, in: Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts, vol. 12:2, 2017, 25-33.“Mysticism and Peace of Mind: Reflections on Tugendhat and Daoism”, in: Eric Nelson (ed.), Frontiers of Philosophy in China, vol. 12:4, 2017, 545-571.“Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Zweiten Achsenzeit”, in: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Jaspers Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2017, 111-129.“The Tyranny of Values: Reflections on Schmitt and China”, in: Kai Marchal and Carl Shaw (eds.): Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World, Lanham: Lexington, 2017, 81-102.“Dialectics of Enlightenment East and West”, in: Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 44:3-4, 2017, 251-274.“Rational Mysticism: Hegel on Magic and China”, in: Journal of Chinese Philosophy, in: Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 44:3-4, 2017, 154-174.“The Fate of Transcendence in Post-secular Societies”, in: Nahum Brown and William Franke (eds.), Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2016, 259-282.“Utopian Thinking in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”, in: Hans Feger, Dikun Xie, Wang Ge (eds.), Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016, 421-434.“The Postsecular Turn in Education: Lessons from the Mindfulness Movement and the Revival of Confucian Academies” (co-authored with Jinting Wu), in: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2016, 1-21.“Whose Equality?”, in: Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies vol. 2, 2015, 153-166.“Tragic Knowledge and Karmic Release”, in: Atenea, vol. 34 1-2, 2014, 2015.“Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the Nonhuman. Towards a transcultural Critique of (Post)Humanism”, in: Chloë Taylor, Neil Dalal (eds.), Rethinking the Non-Human, New York: Routledge, 2014, 93-111.“Crossing Boundaries: Zhuangzi and Basho on the Art of Travelling”, in: Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead, Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey, London: Bloomsbury, 2014, 9-22.“Awakening from Madness”, in: David Stern (ed.), Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit, Albany: SUNY Press, 2013, 107-120.“Assimilierung und Gegenhermeneutik: Transkulturelle Moralkritik im Anschluss an Schopenhauer und Nietzsche”, in: Dieter Birnbacher, Matthias Koßler, Andreas Urs Sommer (eds.), Moralkritik bei Nietzsche und Schopenhauer, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013, 125-138.“In-der-Mitte-Sein. Die Struktur gelingenden Handelns”, in: Stefan Deines, Daniel Martin Feige, Martin Seel (eds.), Formen kulturellen Wandels, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012, 173-196.“Daoism as Critical Theory”, in: Comparative Philosophy, vol. 2, 2011, 50-71.“Kant and Laozi on Nothingness”, in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 38:4, 2011, 556-568.Edited Books and Journal Issues The Human-Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (edited with Nandita Batra), Lanham: Lexington 2018.Contemporary Perspectives on Critical and Social Systems Theory (edited with Hans-Georg Möller), special issue, Thesis Eleven, vol. 143, 2017.Contemporary Perspectives on Film and Philosophy, Contemporary Aesthetics (edited with Stefan Deines), special issue 2016.Comparative Perspectives on the Philosophy of Nature, Comparative Philosophy, vol. 5:2, 2014. Translated BooksErnst Tugendhat, Egocentricity and Mysticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016). [translated and introduced with Alexei Procyshyn], 196 p.Dimitri Nikulin (ed.), The Other Plato: The Tübingen Interpretation of Plato’s Inner-Academic Teachings (Albarny: SUNY Press, 2012), 232 p.Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 256 p.