Xu Ben
Xu Ben
He graduated from Fudan University, has a doctorate in literature from the University of Massachusetts. He once taught in the Department of foreign languages of Soochow University, and is currently a professor in the Department of English at Santa Maria college in California. Published works such as the Enlightenment of advancing with the times.
Publishing works
His works include situational tensions of critical intelligence (1992), alienated Democracy (1999), towards postmodernism and postcolonialism (1996), where to go for cultural criticism (1998), intellectuals and public politics (2005), enlightenment with the times (Shanghai Sanlian bookstore, 2020), etc.
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"Civil Obedience" in Socrates' dialogue: the political skill of the thinker
The wise man in the maze of reform: Leo Strauss's on tyranny
"Reform and opening up": resolution and re formation of legitimacy crisis
Words and images in the hands of media intellectuals
Red tide past: Farewell to the "Party Revolution"
"Memory thief" and the public significance of witness narration
Witnessing everyday life under totalitarian rule
The traumatic memory of "anti rightist" in 50 years
People ordered to do dirty work
The mass theory of poetical Anthropology: a dialogue between carnetti and Adorno on mass issues
Costume skills, performance politics and "camp aesthetics"
An interpretation of Chairman Mao's mango gift: rebuilding the gift relationship in Chinese Society
On Arendt's view of citizenship
In the name of national liberation: anti colonial and violent Fanong
What would Marx say? The secret mass theory in the violent revolution
Public life and "storytelling": Arendt of literature
The historical witness of the unity of knowledge and action: Jaspers standing on the ruins of totalitarian morality
Personal conscience and public politics: a review of Czech Phenomenology
Defense line against evil: individual "thought" and "judgment" under totalitarian autocracy
Harmony, memory and modern interpersonal ethics
Collection of cultural relics in the cultural revolution and nostalgic mass culture
Revolutionary intellectuals and "just" violence
Material culture and daily life order during the Cultural Revolution
Protecting the weak, moral customs and public life
"Revolution" and "political freedom" in the public view
The political transformation and theoretical dilemma of "need" in China
China does not need such "politics" and "sovereign decision": Schmidt fever and nationalism
The lesson of Political Theology: the dishonest Schmidt
Schmidt phenomenon and right wing critical theory
Memory of Cultural Revolution in the era of global media
Entertainment, cultural consumption and public politics -- the public significance of "super girl"
Postmodern values and cultural relativity
Living with pride: Arendt and Existentialism
"Citizen news" and the public political significance of news
Globalization, museums and nation states
Constitutional patriotism and democratic political culture: Habermas' constitutional view
Clean hands and dirty hands: intellectual politics and violence
National legitimacy and civil rights in Globalization
Public life and group identity
Social harmony in public reality: harmonious society and civil society
Bourdieu's cultural sociology and Flaubert studies
The situation of the third world criticism in China today
The social ideal of academic norms: from the values of "new Sinology"
Liberalism and civil Republic: Arendt's view of citizenship
Chinese intellectuals and nationalist politics in the 1990s
The intellectuals of the Late Socialism
Public intellectuals and political Existentialism
Commitment, trust and institutional order: the lack and transformation of trust in China today
Revisiting "political culture"
Active audience and public space of mass culture
The aestheticism tendency of contemporary mass cultural criticism
Gossip in the age of mass media
Decent society and learning identity
Democratic community and civic education: Dewey in 50 years
Education field and democratic school
Distributive justice and group identity: social justice in China
Legal justice from punishment to right
Justice and social goodness
Citizen journalism, the public and public politics
Globalization and group identity of citizens from the perspective of public life
Media and public participation in public events
Free market and civil politics: two kinds of globalization viewed from three kinds of citizens
Nationalism, citizen state and global governance
The resistance of the weak
Vindication, apology and national injustice
Memory and forgetting of cultural criticism
War ethics and group identity divergence
Cynicism in today's Chinese mass society
From humanistic spirit to humanistic education
On China's constitutionalism from the perspective of the formality of constitution
Post totalitarianism and intellectual politics in Eastern Europe
The faults of Chinese people and the responsibility of citizens
Rationality, ethics and civil politics: Habermas' modernity theory
Social conflicts in the context of "intimate capitalism": poverty and violence in today's China
Fear and violence in the political culture of the Cultural Revolution
Mediocre evil and individual moral responsibility under autocratic system
Xu Ben