CISLS Salon | CUI Zhiyuan: A Comparative Study of the Modernity Theories of Anger and Blumenberg
Speaker:
CUI Zhiyuan: Professor and supervisor of Ph.D. candidates of the School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, introduced by Tsinghua University under the Hundred Talent Program. He received his doctoral degree in political science from University of Chicago, USA in 1995 and worked as associate professor in the Department of Political Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995—2003).His publications includes: “The Dilemma of Invisible Hand Paradigm”(1999, Economic Science Publisher, Beijing; “The Second Thought Liberalization Movement and Institutional Innovation”(Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1997), “Whither China?”(Seoul, 2003). He is a co-author (with Adam Przeworski et al) of “Sustainable Democracy”(Cambridge University Press, 1995) and the editor of Robert Unger’s “Politics”(Verso, 1997). With Gan Yang, he co-edited “The Political Economy of Reform in China” (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1997). With Huang Ping, he co-edited “China and Globalization: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or what?” (Beijing, 2005). His recent essays are translated into Korean as The Manifesto for Petty Bourgeois Socialism ( 2014). Since 2018, he serves as a member of academic committee of the Holberg Prize.
Content Introduction:
Robert Unger, a Pound Professor of Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, published a three volume book titled "Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory" at Cambridge University Press in 1987. In 1997, at the invitation of Anger, the speaker of this lecture, CUI Zhiyuan, compiled a three volume concise book on "Politics" and published it at Verso Publishing House in London. In the introduction of the simplified edition, the speaker of this lecture has already mentioned the relationship between Engel's theory and the modernity theory of the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg. This lecture will further explore the relationship and inspiration of Anger and Blumenberg's theory of modernity based on their works published after 1997, particularly the "Blumenberg Reader" published by Cornell University Press in 2020 and the "World and Us" will be published by Anger at Random House in 2024.
Reviewer 1:
LIN Gang, Distinguished Professor, Second Level Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Director of the Academic Committee (2015-2020), member of the Academic Committee of the University (2008-2020), and director of the Centre for Taiwan Studies. He is also a vice-president of the Shanghai Society for Taiwan Studies with State Council special allowance. Authors include Taiwan’s Party Politics and Cross-Strait Relations in Evolution (Palgrave 2019)，China’s Long Quest for Democracy (Palgrave, March 2016), A Study on Party Politics in Taiwan (Chinese Social Sciences Press, July 2014), and Taiwan’s Political Transition and the Evolution of Cross-Strait Relations (Jiuzhou Press, August 2010), co-authored The U.S. Policy toward Taiwan and Its Evolution in the New Era (Jiuzhou Press, August 2015) and Taiwan’s Political Transition (Hong Kong: Social Sciences Press, 1997), co-edited Research and Mechanism Design of Cross-Straits Energy Cooperation (Shanghai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015), China after Jiang (Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Stanford University Press, 2003), Transition toward Post-Deng China (Singapore University Press, 2001) and Prospects for Cross-Taiwan Strait Developments (Hong Kong: Asia Sciences Press, 2000).
Reviewer 2:
Jiang Feng is a professor at the School of Law of East China Normal University, a doctoral supervisor in law from Peking University, deputy director of the Academic Committee of the School of Law, leader in the discipline of constitutional administrative law, and director of the "Shanghai Cross Strait Law Research Center" of the school. The research field is the history of legal thought and comparative constitution. He also serves as a member of the Constitutional Law Research Association of the China Law Society, a member of the National Association for the Study of Foreign Legal History, a member of the Comparative Law Research Association of the China Law Society, and a visiting researcher at the "Constitution and National Governance Research Center" of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington Law School (2012-2013), Visiting Scholar at the Human Rights Center at the University of Cincinnati Law School (2009.02-08). Published monographs such as "Freedom and Authority in Constitutional Choice: Federalists' Politics and Constitutional Thought" (2011, Top 10 Original Academic Books of the Year at Halloween Bookstore) and "Constitutionalism and Political Democracy: Twelve Lectures on the Frontiers of Constitution" (2013); Translated by: McCormick: "Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory" (2005, 2018), "Federalists and Anti Federalists: Debate in Constitutional Ratification" (2012), etc.
Host:
JI Weidong, senior professor of liberal arts at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, president of the China Institute of Socio-Legal Studies
Meeting time:
September 12, 2023 (Tuesday), 14:00-17:30pm
Conference Venue:
Conference Room 206, North 4th Building, Xuhui Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Registration deadline: 17:00 PM, September 11, 2023
Registration link: http://m0x9cdjj4ro2ss1p.mikecrm.com/dRdtyuT