Research Interests: 

Spinoza and Marx, Critical Theory (especially on Benjamin and Adorno), Social Philosophy and Social Theory (currently focusing on three main topics: affect, institution, second nature) 

Areas of Competence: 

German Idealism, Intellectual History of Marxism (including Hess, Feuerbach, Stirner), Western Marxism

WORK &EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

n   2025.06 -    Assistant Professor (Young Research Professor), Fudan University, CN        

n   2023.05 - 2025.05  Postdoc, Associate Researcher, Peking University, Beijing, CN

    Postdoctoral Research Project: Second Nature: Marx on Life and Institution

n   09.2017 - 2023.01  PhD, Department of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, CN

Successive master-doctor program

Doctoral Dissertation: The Genealogy of Power: Marx, Spinoza and the Tradition of Radicalism (summa cum laude)

n   09.2013 - 06.2017  BA, FudanUniversity,Shanghai,CN

School of Philosophy, GPA3.74/4, summa cum laude

n   10.2020 - 11.2021  Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, DE

visiting PhD.student (sponsored by CSC)

n   10.2018 - 02.2019  Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

n   08.2015 - 12.2015  Bergen University, Bergen, NO

Papers (selected):

(1) Towards an Immanent Science: Feuerbach’s Pantheism and the Origin of Marx’ Philosophy, Philosophical Trends, 2025(09)

(2) Embodiment, Habits and Second Nature: Hegel’s Philosophical Anthropology in the Perspective of Critical Social Theory, Philosophical Anthropology &Social Theory, China Social Sciences Press (edited by Shipeng Zou), 2025.

(3) The Spinozist Problem in the Theory of Young Marx, Philosophical Research, 2024(07).

(4) “The Transindividual Social Ontology: The Encounter of Neo-Spinozism and Critical Theory”, Theory Monthly, 2024(11).

(5) “Revenge for the Common Injuries” or the Dimension of Socialization of Indignation: Spinoza’s Political Treatise and the Affective Foundation of a Free Community, Chinese Journal of Sociology (CJS), 2023(01).

(6) Education, Autonomy and the Formation of Subjectivity: Adorno’s Concept of Mündigkeit, Modern Philosophy, 2021(4).

(7) From Hess’ Radical Discourse of Action to Marx’s Concept of Praxis: The Effective History of Spinozism, Fudan Journal (Social Science), 2021(3).

(8) Private Existence and the Possibility of Modern Ethical Life: Reconsidering Minima Moralia, ContemporaryMarxismReview, 2019(2).

(9) TheSacrificeofInnerNatureanditsRebellion-TheDimensionofBodyinDialecticsofEnlightenment,ContemporaryMarxismReview, 2017(2).

Chapters

(1) Critical Social Theory of Frankfurt School , Social Philosophy and Social Theory, The Commercial Press, 2025.

(2) Western Marxism , History of Marxist Philosophy, Higher Education Press, 2025.

Translations:

(1) Hartmut Rosa: Resonanz: Eine Soziologie der Weltbeziehung, Shanghai Renmin Press, forthcoming.

(2) Martin Saar: “The Immanence of Power: From Spinoza To ‘Radical Democracy’”, Contemporary Marxism Review, 2023 (12).

(3) Martin Saar: Power, Affect, and Society: Critical Theory and the Challenge of (Neo-)Spinozism, World Philosophy, 2022(3).

(4) Massimo Morelli: Political Participation, Populism and the COVID-19 Crisis, Foreign Theoretical Trends, 2020 (10).

Conferences (selected):

(1) The Many Faces of 'Power'—From Spinoza to Contemporary Critical Theory, Philosophy Symposium, Department of Philosophy, Peking University, 03. 2024.

(2) The Conceptualization of “Power Relations” in Historical Materialism: Eighteenth Brumaire and Marx’ Spinozist Moment, Postdoctoral Forum, Zhejiang University, 01.2024 (First Award).

(3) The Pathology of Social Powerlessness: Adorno and the Tradition of Critical Theory, Adorno and Modern German Philosophy: Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of Adorno's Birth, Nankai University, 10. 2023.

(4) Towards an Immanent Science: Feuerbach’s Spinozism and the Origin of Marxism, 2^nd.Marxist Intellectual History Conference, Fudan University, 10.2023.

(5) Summer School: Foundations of Solidarity (Berlin Humboldt University), 07.2021.

(6) “The Radicalization of Action and Social-Transformation: A Spinoza-Hess-Marx Triangle”, International Conference: Spinoza’s TTP: Politics, Power and the Imagination, Hosted by Polis Open University, British Society for the History of Philosophy, 03.2021.

(7) Workshop “Macht der Affekte”, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 03.2021.

(8) From Imaginary Identification to the Origin of Sociality: Spinoza, Marx and German Pantheism Tradition, Conference of Intellectual History of Marxism, Fudan University, 2020.

Political Discourse and the Plane of Immanence - Spinoza in Empire, Graduate Forum, East China Normal University, 2018.