Cheng Danggen, male, Han ethnicity, native of Fengcheng, Jiangxi. He joined the university in April 2005 and currently holds the position of Full Professor. He earned his Ph.D. in Foreign Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Zhejiang University in 2004. He currently works in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, and serves as a Council Member of the Chinese Society for Modern Foreign Philosophy.

  Contact Email: dgchengzj@sina.com

  Primary Research Fields and Interests:

  Modern Continental Philosophy, with a focus on modern German and French philosophy.

  Courses Taught:

  For Undergraduates: Introduction to Philosophy, Principles of Marxist Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy, Introduction to Western Philosophical Classics, Introduction to Being and Time

  For Postgraduates: Special Topics in Western Philosophy, Introduction to Being and Time, Special Topics in Postmodern Philosophy

  For Doctoral Students: Frontier Topics in Philosophy

  Major Academic Achievements and Awards:

  I. Papers

  1."An Analysis of Vico's Philosophy of History," sole author, Journal of Jiangxi Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), No. 3, 1998.

  2."A Discussion on the Historical Non-Determinism of Western Marxism," second author, Jiangxi Social Sciences(core journal), No. 11, 1998.

  3."An Analysis of Deleuze's Influence on the Formation of Foucault's Philosophical Thought," sole author, Journal of Chongqing University (Social Science Edition), No. 3, 2003.

  4."The Dimension of the Different Subject in a Different Realm: The Postmodern Subject Model in Deleuze's Perspective," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 6, 2003.

  5."The Death of God and the Return of Values: Nietzsche's Genealogy of the God Problem," sole author, Jiangxi Social Sciences(core journal), No. 11, 2003.

 6."Micro-Political Games on the Basis of Dynamism," sole author, Journal of Chongqing University (Social Science Edition), No. 3, 2004.

  7."Nomadism," sole author, Foreign Literature(authoritative journal, CSSCI, core journal), No. 3, 2005.

  8."Between Desire and Power: An Analysis of the Intellectual Interaction Between Deleuze and Foucault," sole author, Tianjin Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 4, 2005.

  9."The Postmodern Perspective in Political Philosophy: Nomadic Politics," sole author, Journal of Southwest Normal University (Social Sciences Edition)(CSSCI, core journal), No. 3, 2005.

  10."Bataille's Concept of 'Sacred' Desire," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 6, 2006.

  11."Questioning the Legitimacy of Philosophy in a Postmodern Context: The Case of Deleuze," sole author, Journal of Nanchang University (Social Sciences Edition)(core journal), No. 4, 2006.

  12."The Fate of the Subject: From the 'Thinking' Subject to the 'Body' Subject," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 12, 2008.

  13."The Post-Empiricist Paradigm: Deleuze's Radical Empiricism," sole author, Journal of Nanchang University (Social Sciences Edition)(core journal), No. 2, 2011.

  14."Pluralism Based on Centerless Difference and Its Political Dimension," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 7, 2011.

  15."The Advance and Retreat of the Epistemic Subject: From Descartes to Foucault," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 8, 2012. This article was excerpted in Xinhua Digest, No. 23, 2012 (pp. 159–160).

  16."From 'Being a Woman' to 'Becoming-Woman': A Desiring and De-essentializing Reflection on the Female Subject," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 4, 2013.

  17."The Cartesian Dimension and Its Effects in Heidegger's Theory of the Subject," sole author, Journal of Nanchang University (Social Sciences Edition)(core journal), No. 1, 2013.

  18."Three Modes of Desire at the Ontic, Ontological, and Genetic Levels," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 10, 2015.

  19."The End of the Subject-Human from Heidegger's Critique of Sartre's Humanism," first author, French Ideological Review(CSSCI journal), Spring 2017.

  20."The Fate of the Philosophy of Eros: From Plato to Deleuze," sole author, Philosophical Analysis(CSSCI journal), No. 3, 2019.

  21."The Dialectical Negation of the Concept of Bodily Desire: From Spinoza to Deleuze," sole author, Nanjing Social Sciences(CSSCI, core journal), No. 12, 2019.

  22."An Analysis of Chisholm's Theory of Intentional Sensation," first author, Journal of Nanchang University, No. 5, 2019.

  II. Monographs

  1.Thought and Nomadic Political Experiments: A Study of Deleuze's Postmodern Philosophy, sole author, China Social Sciences Press, 2009.

  2.Sixteen Lectures on the Wisdom of Western Philosophy, editor-in-chief, Jiangxi Education Publishing House, 2019.

  3.Key Terms in Western Literary Theory, contributing author, entries on "Desire" and "Nomadism," Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2006.

  III. Research Projects

  1.French Postmodern Political Philosophy (029), Jiangxi Provincial University Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Project, 3,000 RMB, completed.

  2.A Study on the Relationship Between Heidegger and French Humanism (ZX1007), Jiangxi Provincial University Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Project, 3,000 RMB, completed.

  3.A Study on Heidegger and Contemporary French Philosophy (10ZX06), Jiangxi Provincial Social Sciences "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" Project, 5,000 RMB, completed.

  4.A Study on Changes in French Philosophy Education, Jiangxi Provincial Education Science "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" 2011 Project (11ZYZYB006), funding of 15,000 RMB, completed.

  5.A Study on the Relationship Between Subjectivity and Humanism, Key Project of Jiangxi Provincial Social Sciences "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" (13ZX01), 20,000 RMB, completed.

  6.A Study on the Relationship Between Subjectivity and Humanism, Jiangxi Provincial University Humanities and Social Sciences Project (ZX1305), 10,000 RMB, completed.

  7.A Study on Deleuze's Paradigm of Desire (17BZX075), National Social Science Fund General Project, 200,000 RMB, ongoing.

  IV. Social Evaluation of Research Achievements

  1.Sole-authored monograph Nomadic Thought and Nomadic Political Experiments: A Study of Deleuze's Postmodern Philosophywon the Second Prize in the 14th Jiangxi Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award in Social Sciences in October 2011.

  2."An Analysis of Deleuze's Influence on the Formation of Foucault's Philosophical Thought" won the Third Prize for Outstanding Student Achievements from the Dong Shi Foundation for Literature, History, and Philosophy Research at Zhejiang University in 2004.