Department of Languages

De Tholozany, Pauline

Title: L’Ecole de la maladresse : de J.-J. Rousseau à J.J. Grandville, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle. Paris : Honoré Champion (2017)
Publisher: Honoré Champion

Mai, Joseph

Robert Guédiguian. Manchester University Press, 2017.

Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guédiguian, director of Marius et Jeannette (1997) and other popular auteurist films, can be read as an original and coherent project

Peebles, Kelly

Jeanne Flore. Tales and Trials of Love: a bilingual edition and study. Edited and translated by Kelly Digby Peebles. Poetry translated by Marta Rijn Finch. (Toronto: CRRS/Iter, 2014).

In Tales and Trials of Love, Jeanne Flore (whose identity remains a mystery) depicts an ideal notion of love as a mutually beneficial relationship upheld in a world governed by Venus and Cupid.

An, Yanming

Engineering, Development and Philosophy: American, Chinese and European Perspectives. Edited by Steen H. Christensen, Carl Mitcham, Bocong Li, and Yanming An. Springer, 2012

This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture. It offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary perspectives on how the philosophies of today’s cultural triumvirate—American, European and Chinese—are shaped and given nuance by the cross-fertilization of engineering and development.

An, Yanming

Chinese translation of Wilhelm Dilthey’s The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. 精神科学中历史世界的建构(狄尔泰文集·第3卷)。 中国人民大学出版社。China Renmin University Press, Beijing 2011.

Important work of the famous philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey.

Mai, Joseph

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Reviewed in: H-France, Film-Philosophy, Sight and Sound, Contemporary French Civilization, The French Review, Modern & Contemporary France, Choice For well over a decade, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have produced highly original and ethically charged films that immerse their audiences in an intense and embodied viewing experience.

An, Yanming

A New Perspective to the Applied Ethics. Edited by An, Yanming and Wang, Qian. Beijing: People’s Press. 2008

An, Yanming

The Idea of Cheng (Sincerity/Reality) in the History of Chinese Philosophy. Global Scholarly Publications, New York 2006.

Yanming An combines a mastery of detail with a complex and humane philosophical vision. He articulates the role of cheng as a central concept of Chinese thought, discusses the extension of cheng from moral psychology to philosophy of nature, metaphysics and philosophy of language and examines its contrasting roles in explaining change and transformation.

An, Yanming

The Historical Hermeneutics in Wilhelm Dilthey. 狄爾泰的歷史解釋理論。遠流出版公司 Yuan-liou Publications, Taiwan, 1999.

Dilthey’s theory of historical interpretation is the most influential part of his entire thought, and this book concisely describes the life history, intellectual history and even conceptual history related to this theory. The author also adds personal comments and attempts to make some comparisons between Dilthey’s thought and Chinese thought and reality.