Jiwei Ci 慈继伟

Ph.D. (Edin)

Professor, Department of Philosophy School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

Email : jiweici@hkucc.hku.hk

Research and teaching interests

Social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics; modern and contemporary China viewed from the perspectives of social and political philosophy and ethics

Publications

• The Two Faces of Justice, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• 《正义的两面》，北京: 三联书店，2001.
• Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.
• “Agency and Other Stakes of Poverty,” Journal of Political Philosophy, online early view.
• “Chapter Thirty-eight of the Daodejing as an Imaginary Genealogy of Morals,” in Chris Fraser, Dan Robins, and Timothy O’Leary, eds., Ethics in Early China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.
• “Evaluating Agency: A Fundamental Question for Social and Political Philosophy,” Metaphilosophy, vol. 42, no.3, 2011.
• “Redeeming Freedom,” in Stan van Hooft and Wim Vandekerckhove, eds., Questioning Cosmopolitanism, Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
• What Is in the Cloud? —A Critical Engagement with Thomas Metzger on ‘the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories,'” boundary 2, vol. 34, no. 3, 2007.
• “Political Agency in Liberal Democracy,” Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 2, 2006.
• “Taking the Reasons for Human Rights Seriously,” Political Theory, vol. 33, no. 2, 2005.
• Justice, Freedom, and the Moral Bounds of Capitalism,” Social Theory and Practice, vol. 25, no. 3, 1999.
• “Disenchantment, Desublimation, and Demoralization: Some Cultural Conjunctions of Capitalism,” New Literary History, vol. 30, no. 2, 1999.
• Freedom and Realms of Living,” Philosophy East and West, vol. 41, no. 3, 1991.