Professor
E-mail: helai@jlu.edu.cn
Biography
He Lai, male, was born in 1969.
He got his Ph.D. in philosophy at Jilin University in 1996. Since 2000, he has been employed as a professor at Jilin University School of Philosophy and Sociology and since 2001 he has been a doctoral supervisor. Since 2008, he has been the dean of the School of Philosophy and Sociology, Jilin University. Since 2004, he has been the associate director of the Center for Fundamentals of Philosophy of Jilin University which is a key research base of the Ministry of Education. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford University in the United States, Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Research Interests
Marxist Philosophy, Contemporary Western Philosophy, etc.
Publications
The Real Life World: the True Foundation of Utopia Spirit (Jilin Education Press, 1998).
Tolerance Consciousness (Jilin Education Press, 2000).
The Existential Basis of Dialectics (Chinese University Press, 2004).
Boundary Consciousness and Human Liberation (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2007).
Dialectics and Practical Reason (China Social Science Press, 2011).
Contemporary Horizons of Agency (Beijing Normal University Press, 2013).
How Is a Dignified and Happy Life Possible (China Social Sciences Press, 2012).
More than 130 papers have been published in more than 40 influential journals, of which 5 were published in Chinese Social Sciences, 12 were published in Philosophical Research, and 12 were reprinted in full by Xinhua Digest.
Courses
Selected Readings of Marxist Philosophy. (Undergraduate Course)
Selected Readings of Marxist Philosophy, Research on the Newest Issues in Philosophy, and Research on Texts of Contemporary Western Philosophy. (Graduate Courses)
