Yinli Wang
Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Institute of Humanity Science
Education Experience
2002-2006, WesternPolitical Philosophy, Fudan University, China Ph. D
1996-1999, Western Philosophy, 1999, Fudan University M.A.
1992-1996, Philosophy, Fudan UniversityB.A.
Working Experience
1999.7-2006.12, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University (ECNU)
2007.1-2022.7, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, ECNU
2022.8-present, Associate Professor, Institute of Humanity Science, Shanghai Tech University.
Arendt Studies, republicanism, modern Western political thought, Christian Ethics
Visiting Experience
August, 2016 Visiting scholar in University of Crete, Greek
March, 2010.3-March, 2011, Visiting Scholar in the Rock Ethics Institute, the State University of Pennsylvania, USA.
April to July, 2003, Visiting in the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), the University of Bergen, Norway
Research Project
1. “A Critical Study on Hannah Arendt and J.G.A.Pocock’s New Republicanism,” sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China, 2019.
2. “Human Rights in Today’s Turkish from the Perspective of Secularism and Post-Secularization”, Sponsored by ECNU Institute of Belt and Road &Global Development, 2018
3. “Hannah Arendt and the Tradition of Republicanism”, sponsored by Shanghai Pujiang Project, 2013
4. “Between Philosophy and Politics: Study on Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy”, sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China, 2005.
Published Books
Political Philosophy in A Secular Age: A Study on Republicanism, Shanghai: Sanlian Bookstore, 2022,
Hannah Arendt: Love, Thinking and Action, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press, 2021.
Hannah Arendt：Between Philosophy and Politics: A Study on Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy, the Century Publishing Group: Shanghai, 2009.
Translated Books
Hannah Arendt, Love and St.Augustine, ed., byJoanna V.Scott &Judith C. Stark, Lijiang publishing house,Shanghai, 2019.7
2. Gunnar Skirbekk, Multiple Modernities: A Tale of Scandinavian Experience, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2014;
3. Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, (with Zhang lili), Yilin Publishing House: Nanjing, 2011;
4. Hannah Arendt, the Human Condition, the Century Publishing Group: Shanghai, 2009;
5. Vincent Descombes, Modern French Philosophy, New Star Publishing Company: Shanghai, 2007.
Published Ariticles:
“Augustine and Modern Republicanism” in Christian Scholarship, Vol.24, 2020.
“Hannah Arendt on Humanity and Dehumanization: An Interpretation based on Arendt’s Dissertation of Augustine”, Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, Vol.557, October 2020.
“Rediscovering the Augustinian Origin of Amor Mundi in Hannah Arendt”, Logos and Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology, Vol. 52, spring, 2020.
“Finding the Sameness in Ethical Knowledge and Decreasing the Conflicts of value: An interview with Ioanna Kuçuradi”, Wenhui Daily, Aug., 4, 2018.
“The Spiritual Condition in a Secular Age: Base on the View of Charles Taylor”,
Fudan Journal (Social Science), 2017, No., 5.
“Temporal Consciousness of Modern Republican Theory: Take Pocock and Arendt as Examples”, Academic Monthly Contents, 2017, No., 1.
“How Neighborly Love is Possible: Arendt on the Augustine’s Concept of Love”, Culture Studies, 2016, Vol.26.
“A Moral Imaginary of Nationals in Civic Textbooks of 1912”, Thoughts and Culture, Vol.13, No.1, 2014.
Translated article: Wendy Brown: “Sacred, Secular and Profane: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx”, Foreign Theoretical Trends, No.3, 2014.
“Action and Freedom: Arendt’s Thesis on Augustine”, World Philosophy, No.1, 2014.
“Political Language and the Politics of Language: A Study Focused on Pocock’s Interpretation on Republicanism”, Academic Research, No.11, Vol.336. 2012;
“Civic education in Republic Textbooks of 1912: A case of Communitarians’ Republicanism”, for Conference“Programme for Moral Imaginaries – Emerging Normative Regimes in India, China and the West”，University of Bergen, Norway, 2012, 11.23-25；
"Machiavelli and Two Interpretive Models of Contemporary Republicanism”, Political Intellectual History, No.2, 2012;
“On Hermeneutical Characters of the History of Political Thought”, Gansu Social Science, No.2, 2012.
“Pocock’s Republican Interpretation: an Approach to Machiavelli’s Language of Virtue”, Journal of East China Normal University, No.2, 2012.
“Arendt and Marx: the Hermeneutical or Critical Political Philosophy”, Marxism and Reality, No., 5, 2011.
“A Study on Hannah Arendt’s Reinterpretation about Aristotle’s Concept of Politics”, Philosophical Analysis, No.4, 2010.
“Arendt’s Political Philosophy from the Perspective of Contemporary Feminism”, Fudan Journal, No. 5, 2008.
“An Unwritten Political Philosophy: Arendt’s Interpretations on Kant’s Concept of Judgment”, Journal of Social Sciences, No. 9, 2006.
“Vita Contemplativa and Vita Activa: Arendt’s Critique to Traditional Western Political Philosophy”, Journal of East China Normal University, No. 4, 2006.
“The ‘Specter’ of Derrida—a View of Deconstructive Politics through Specters of Marx”, Furan Journal, No. 5, 2004.
“Hannah Arendt’s Thought on the Political Significance of Thinking”, Journal of East China Normal University, No. 6, 2003.
Book Chapters:
“Finding the Sameness in Ethical Knowledge and Decreasing the Conflicts of value：An interview with Ioanna Kuçuradi”, Here, an Encounter with Chinese Philosophy, ed., by Li Nian, Shanghai: Ren Ming Press, 2018.
“The Epistemological Turn in Modern Western Philosophy”, An Introduction of Philosophy, ed., by Pan Derong, Shanghai: The Press of East China Normal University, 2016.