Faculty

Sun Ning
Professor
Area of Specialty (AOS): Prometheus Myth Studies, Critical Aesthetics (Adorno and Benjamin), Pragmatic Aesthetics (Dewey), German Romantic Aesthetics (F. Schlegel and Novalis)
E-mail:
bsun@fudan.edu.cn
Contact information:
Guanghua Tower, Main building (west) 220 Handan Road, Yangpu District Fudan University, Shanghai 200433
Research Areas

Education

 

2003               Ph.D. in Philosophy 

                       Fudan University  

2000               M.A. in Philosophy 

                       Fudan University 

1997               B.A. in Philosophy

                       Fudan University 

 

Academic Employment


2019 -           Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University 

2007 - 2019   Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University 

2003 - 2007   Lecturer, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

Research Areas

Special Project

 

2018 - 2022   A Study on the Poetic Image of Prometheus funded by Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning, Ministry of Education.

2005 - 2012   Aesthetics and Redemption - From German Romantics to T. W. Adorno funded by National Social Science Foundation of China.

 

Professional Service 

 

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Publications

 

Books

1.  2020, The Pragmatic and Critical Dimensions in Contemporary Western Social Sciences.  Shanghai Joint Publishing.

2.  2015, The Complete Works of Dewey - Late Writings, Volume X: Art as Experience.  East China Normal University Press. 

3.  2014, Masterpieces in Contemporary Philosophy - Aesthetics Volume.  Beijing Normal University Press.

4.  2014, Aesthetics and Redemption: From German Romantics to T. W. Adorno.  Fudan University Press. 

5.  2004, The Constellation Guarding the Night Sky: T. W. Adorno in the History of Aesthetic Issues.  Fudan University Press. 

 

Journal Articles 

 

1.  2020, “Perceptual Criticism: Exploring Aesthetic-Historical Research under the Opportunity of Historicization. Literary Review (CSSCI). vol. 1, pp. 45-52.

2.  2020, “The Social Scientific Turn in Contemporary Aesthetics,” Philosophical Dynamics (CSSCI). vol. 2, pp. 109-116.

3.  2019, “From the Perspective of Rorty Looking at the Theory of Truth Turning from Philosophy to Social Science,” Journal of Southwest University (Social Science Edition) (CSSCI). vol. 6, pp. 45-52.

4.  2019, “Why Do We Need Critical Aesthetics Today?” Tianjin Social Sciences (CSSCI). vol. 4, pp. 22-29.

5.  2018, “To What Extent Escaping from Exchange Societies is Possible – An Examination from Adorno's Philosophical Perspective,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review (CSSCI). vol 17, pp. 280-297.

6.     2017, “In What Sense Does Society Take Time As a Measure? -- An Examination from George Mead's Social Psychology.” Journal of Yunnan University (Social Science Edition). vol. 6, pp. 33-40.

7.     2017, “Individuals, Action, and the Reinvention of Democracy - an Examination from Dewey's Doctrine of Democracy.” Pragmatist Studies. vol. 1, pp. 190-203.

8.     2016, “Film: A Close-up Look.” Fudan Review of Political Philosophy. vol. 8, pp. 123-141.

9.     2016, “Revisiting the Mission of Contemporary Art.” Liberation Daily newspaper.

10.  2016, “Life is the Transformation and Reinvention of Life - A Contemporary Meaning of Dewey's Philosophy.” Wen Wei Post newspaper.

11.  2015, “The Proletariat as Descendants of Prometheus - An Examination from Marx's Prometheus,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review. vol. 12, pp. 236-252.

12.  2015, “To What Extent is Art An Action? -- An Examination of Dewey's Aesthetic Thought,” Journal of Tongji University (Social Science Edition) (CSSCI). vol. 4, pp. 82-88.

13.  2015, “Unveil of the Goddess Seth - An Interpretation of the Image of Isis in Novalis.”  Fudan Political Philosophy Review. vol. 7, pp. 121-134.

14.  2014, “Objects: From Consumption to Representation and Image - Reflections on Objects in This Age.”  Modern Philosophy (CSSCI). vol. 5, pp. 1-7.

15.  2013, “From the Decline of Narrative to the Rise of Cinema: An Examination of Benjamin's Aesthetic Thought,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review. vol. 11, pp. 209-229. 

16.  2012, “The Fourfold Identity of Prometheus - A Mythological Examination of Marx's Prometheus,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review. vol. 10, pp. 137-158.

17.  2012, “Pulling Closer and Seeing More Truly - Benjamin on Film. China Social Science Journal.

18.  2011, “Aesthetic Language Games - Aesthetic Thought in Wittgenstein's Late Philosophy, Ontology and Interpretation.” vol. 7, pp. 222-231.

19.  2011, “When Nature Encounters the Ubiquitous Lens - Ecology and Marxism in the Age of Video Technology,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review.  vol 9, pp. 70-88.

20.  2009, “Cultural Imperialism in the Context of Globalization - An Examination from the Cultural Theory of James Minson,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review. vol. 7, pp. 214-232.

21.  2009, “Spectrum: A Metaphor in Dewey's Aesthetic Thought.”  Journal of Jiangsu Administrative College (CSSCI). vol. 6, pp. 17-22.

22.  2008, “Art As Rhythm and Adventure - A Study of Dewey's Philosophy of Art. Fudan Journal (Social Science Edition) (CSSCI). vol. 4, pp. 61-68.

23.  2007, “Astrology, Facetics and Cranial Phrenology - Adorno and the Tradition of Critiquing Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” Modern Philosophy (CSSCI).  vol. 3, pp. 44-48.

24.  2006, “Art: The Guardian of Things: Reflections on Objects in This Era. Fudan Journal of Social Sciences. vol. 5, pp. 120-126.

25.  2004, “From the Light of Enlightenment to the Virtual World – A Discussion from the Perspective of Adorno’s Exile,” Contemporary Foreign Marxist Review. vol. 4, pp. 183-199.

26.  2003, “From Object to Seeing - A Shift in Wittgenstein's View of Language.”  Modern Philosophy(CSSCI). no. 1, pp. 124-128.


Research Areas

Teaching

1.     Contemporary Western Philosophical Thought (seminar, undergraduate)

2.     Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Issues (undergraduate)

3.     Philosophy of Art (undergraduate)

4.     Contemporary Art Thought and Art Creation (undergraduate)

5.     German Romantic Philosophical Tradition (graduate)

6.     Critical Theory of Aesthetics (graduate)

7.     Contemporary Western Philosophy of Art (graduate)

8.     Selected Original Works on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (graduate)