Faculty

Wang Fengcai
Professor
E-mail:
wfc63@sina.com
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Research Areas

Courses

1. Undergraduate Courses

Selective Reading of the Original Works of Western Marxism

The Critical Theory of Society

Western Marxology

2. Graduate Courses (Master/Ph.D.)

Research on the Frontier Issues of Western Marxism

Intensive Reading of the Original Works of Western Marxism (Negative Dialectics)

Monographic Study on Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School

 

Honours and Awards

New Century Excellent Talent in the University of the Ministry of Education of China (2009)

Enlisted in Major National Talent Programs (2018)

2014 National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences (2015)

Second Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award (2018)

First Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award (2023)

Second Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education of China (2024)

First Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award (2025)


Research Areas

Major Academic Achievements

1Monographs

1The Critical Theory Septology

Critique and Reconstruction: The Theory of Civilization of the Frankfurt School (Social Sciences Academic Press [China], 2004)

Despisement and Resistance: Honneth's Recognition Theory and the Political-Ethical Turn of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Chongqing Publishing Group, 2008)

From Public Freedom to Democratic Ethics: Wellmer's Political Ethics in the Context of Critical Theory (People's Publishing House, 2011)

Recognition, Justice, Ethics: Honneth's Political Ethics in the Context of Practical Philosophy (Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2017/2023)

From Social Philosophy to Critical Theory (People's Publishing House, 2023)

From New Critical Theory to Post Critical Theory (People's Publishing House, 2023)

Interpretation of Negative Dialectics (in multiple volumes, China Social Sciences Press, to be published)

2The Marx Pentalogy

In Pursuit of Marx: Exploring Western Marxism (Shandong University Press, 2003)

Rediscovering Marx: The Development Trend of German Marxism after the Fall of the Berlin Wall (People's Publishing House, 2015)

Marx in Multiple Perspectives: The Development Trend of World Marxism in the 21st Century (in two volumes, China Social Sciences Press, 2021/2022)

Re-Understanding Marx: Contemporary Interpretation of Western Marxism (China Renmin University Press, 2024)

Marx in an International Perspective: the Critical Theory of Culture of Foreign Marxism and Its New Development in the 21st Century (China Social Sciences Press, to be published)

2Major Translations

Negative Dialectics (by Adorno, translated by Wang Fengcai, The Commercial Press, 2019/2020/2022)

The Struggle for Recognition (by Honneth, translated by Wang Fengcai, Shanghai People's Publishing House, to be published)

3Academic Research Paper(omission)


Research Areas

Courses

1. Undergraduate Courses

Selective Reading of the Original Works of Western Marxism

The Critical Theory of Society

Western Marxology

2. Graduate Courses (Master/Ph.D.)

Research on the Frontier Issues of Western Marxism

Intensive Reading of the Original Works of Western Marxism (Negative Dialectics)

Monographic Study on Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School

 

Honours and Awards

New Century Excellent Talent in the University of the Ministry of Education of China (2009)

Enlisted in Major National Talent Programs (2018)

2014 National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences (2015)

Second Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award (2018)

First Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award (2023)

Second Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education of China (2024)

First Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award (2025)