Faculty

Chen Jia
Associate Professor
Modern Western Aesthetics (esp. John Dewey Pragmatism Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Symbolism), Comparative Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Education, Philosophy of Music
E-mail:
chenjia2312@fudan.edu.cn
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Education 

2012   Ph.D.    Philosophy of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2005   M.A.    Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA       

2001   B.A.     Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China  


Working Experience 

Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University (since 2019)

Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University (2013-2019)

Assistant Managing Editor, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, University of Illinois Press (2007—2008)     


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PUBLICATIONS

Book (In English):

How Can One Be Perfected by Music? --Contemporary Educational Significance of Chinese Pre-Qin Confucian Thought on Yue Jiao (Music Education), Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013

 

Edited Book and Journal Volume (In Chinese):

1. The Supernatural and Nature: John Dewey on Religion and Aesthetics, co-editor, Shanghai: East China Normal University, 2018 

2. Pragmatism Studies, volume 1, co-vice editor, Beijing: Renmin Press, 2017

3. Pragmatism Studies, volume 2, co-vice editor, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2020


Translated Book (In Chinese):

Collected Works of John Dewey (Later Works, volume 17), co-translator, Shanghai: East China Normal University, 2015

 

Articles and Book Review (In English):

1.“Harmony in the Arts: The Sense of Communication in Confucian and Deweyan Aesthetics”, in CONFUCIANISM AND DEWEYAN PRAGMATISM: RESOURCES FOR A NEW GEOPOLITICS OF INTERDEPENDENCE, Edited by Roger T. AMES, CHEN Yajun, and Peter D. HERSHOCK, University of Hawaii Press,2021, 49-60

2.“Embodied Perception and Harmonious Perception: Aesthetic Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Painting and Chinese Song Dynasty Landscapes”, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Springer, 9, no.2 (2016), 303-324 

3. A Review of Xu Di and Hunter McEwan, eds., Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning: Xueji in the Twenty-First Century, Educational Theory, 68, no. 1 (2018), 119-126

 

Selected Articles (in Chinese):

1.     Pragmatism in American Abstract Expressionism: a teacher-student dialogue between John Dewey and Meyer Schapiro, Journal of Art History and Philosophy of Art, Dec. 2024

2.     From “Coordination” to “Communicable Meaning”: The Origin of Dewey’s View on Artistic Senses, Fudan Journal (Social Sciences), 2023, no.5, 51-59

3.     Art experience as an Exemplary Continuity—On How Dewey's Pragmatism Art View Bridges Philosophical Dualism, Pragmatism Studies, vol. 2020, 90-100

4.     Art as The Climax of Experience: An Inquiry into Dewey’s Existence-Oriented Philosophy of Art, Literary and Artistic Controversy, vol. 2, 2020, 115-119

5.     “Does the Deed that Breeds the Emotion”: An Interpretation on John Dewey’s Aesthetic Theory of Expression”, Academic Monthly, vol.6, 2019, 143-151

6.     Ordered Variation and the Organization of EnergiesDewey on Artistic Rhythm, International Aesthetics, 2019,128-137


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TEACHING COURSES


in English

1. “Chinese Classical Aesthetic Ideal” (won the award for “EXCELLENT ENGLISH COURSE AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY” in 2019)

2. “Topics in Chinese Classical Aesthetics” 

 

in Chinese

1. “Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Topics” 

2. “Intensive Readings on Modern Western Aesthetics”

3. Pragmatism Aesthetics and Symbolic Aesthetics 

4. Philosophy of Music