Associate professor of philosophy at Tsinghua University, China

My research is in German philosophy, especially in the social and political Philosophy of Hegel and Marx. For about ten years, I concentrate on Hegel’s idea of freedom, property and morality with the aid of the new approach inspired by the revival of Hegel. I also focus on Marx’s civil society theory, and believe Hegel’s social and political theory could shed new light on Marx’s civil society theory and bring it to new life for anyone still interested in Marx. I teach classes about Hegel’s Phenomenology, Philosophy of Rights, Philosophy of History, Kant’s Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, Marx’s On the Jewish Question, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Rights, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, and Comments on James Mills, etc.

Associate professor (2016- ) of philosophy at Tsinghua University, China

Lecturer (2014-2016) of philosophy at Tsinghua University, China

Lecturer (2011-2014) of philosophy at Renmin University of China

Ph.D. (2009-2011) in political science, Tohoku University, Japan

Ph.D. (2007-2011) in philosophy, Tsinghua University, China

1. “Beyond Nature and Contract: Hegel’s Property Theory based on ‘Personality’”, Philosophical Trends, No. 4, 2018. 4, (in Chinese)

2. “Return to Civil Society from the State: A Hegelian Analysis of On the Jewish Question”, Journal of Tsinghua University, Vol. 4, 2017. 9, (in Chinese)

3. “Why Arbitrariness cannot be an Expression of Freedom? A detailed Study on Hegel’s Idea of Freedom”, Journal of Fudan, Vol. 3, 2016. 6, (in Chinese)

4. “Participant’s Perspective and Observer’s Perspective: Hegel on the Application of Self-Determination Criterion to Arbitrariness”, Journal of Renming University of China, Vol. 4, 2016. 8, (in Chinese)

5. “The limitations of Community’s Toleration on Individual Freedom: an Investigation on Hegel’s Concept of Subjective Freedom”, Journal of Tsinghua University, Vol. 4, 2015. 5, (in Chinese)

6. “No Reciprocal Recognition without Private Property: the theoretical difficulty in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit”, World Philosophy, Vol. 130, No. 5, 2013. 5, (in Chinese)

7. “Is private ownership the necessary condition of freedom: an Examination of Abstract Right of Elements of the Philosophy of Right”, Modern Philosophy, Vol. 3, 2014. 3, (in Chinese)

8. “The Significance of the Concept of Individual for Young Marx’s Civil Society Theory”, GEMC Journal, No. 8, 2013. 3, (in English)

9. “Producing for oneself or for others: labor and the actualization of human nature”, Studies in Marxism, Vol. 14, 2013. 12, (in English)

10. “Danga Vileisis’s new explanation of Marx’s Historical Materialism”, in New MEGA and German Ideology, Izumi Omura (eds.), Tokyo: Hasaku Press, 2015, (in Japanese)

11. “The second Part of MEGA² and ‘Engels’ editing problem of Capital’”, China Review of Political Economy, Vol.2, 2013. 5, (in Chinese)

12. “On the Editing Work of MEGA2 in Japan”, Academic Monthly, Vol. 4, 2013. 4, (in Chinese)

1. Daniel Brudney, Marx’s Attempt to leave Philosophy, Beijing: Renming University of China Publisher, 2019, (English to Chinese)

2. Teinosuke Otani, The Theoretical Development of Reproduction in Marx: in terms of the Writing Process of Capital Volume II, China Review of Political Economy, Vol.2, 2013. 5, ( Japanese into Chinese)

Address: Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PRC