Faculty

Zhang Yin
Associate Professor
Main areas of interest: Marxism, contemporary radical thoughts; Recent focus: Marxian critique of ideology
E-mail:
yinz@fudan.edu.cn
Contact information:
Room 2614, West Main Building, Guanghua Towers, 220 Handan Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, 200433
Research Areas

Education & Work Experience

Education

2004–2008: Undergraduate student in the Department of Economics, Fudan University

2008–2011: Graduate student in the School of Philosophy, Fudan University

2012–2015: Doctoral student in the School of Philosophy, Fudan University

Career

2016– :Lecturer & associate professor in the School of Philosophy, Fudan University

20152016: Visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Project

“Study and Critique of the Crisis Theory of Capitalism Based on Overaccumulation”, 2019–



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Representative essays

1. “The Dual Social Antagonisms Implicit in the Infinity of Capital”, Contemporary Marxism Review 15, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2017

2. “From the Traditional Antithesis between the Public and the Private to Marx’s Theory of Value”, Contemporary Marxism Review 16, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2018

3. “The Cultural Hegemony of Consumerism and Its Implications for the Extraction of Surplus-value”, Philosophical Research, No. 10, 2017

This essay is published in Italian as “L’Egemonia Culturale del Consumismo e le sue Implicazioni per l’Estrazione del plusvalore” (trans. by Francesco Roviello), Infiniti mondi, October 2017

4. “The Contribution of Althusser’s Theory of Causality to the Critique of Political Economy”, Contemporary Marxism Review 14, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2017

5. “A Reinterpretation of the Class Struggle Theory from the Perspective of Tätigkeit”, Philosophical Research, No. 6, 2013

This essay is reprinted in its entirety by the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China, No. 9, 2013

6. “The Contribution of ‘Speculative Realism’ to Radical Thoughts”, Yearly Report on Studies of Marxism Abroad (2015–2016), Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2017

7. “Social Anarchism Confronting Marxism”, Yearly Report on Studies of Marxism Abroad (2014), Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2015

8. “The Specter of Spinoza in the Contemporary Left”, Yearly Report on Studies of Marxism Abroad (2012), Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2012


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Courses

Introduction to Marxist Philosophy, Frontiers of Marxism Globalwise, Das Kapital and the Modern World (Undergraduate)

Marxist Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Economics (Graduate)