Educational Background

Visiting Scholar, Philosophy, Heidelberg University (2018-2019)

PhD, Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2008-2012)

Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy, East China Normal University (2007-2008)

Master of Philosophy, Anhui Normal University (2004-2007)

Bachelor of Law, Anhui Normal University (2000-2004)

Research Projects

“The Implementation of Hermeneutics: Understanding, Interpretation, and Application”, Later-stage Funding Project of the National Social Science Fund, 2024.

“Dilthey’s Foundation of Geisteswissenschaften by Hermeneutics”, the PRC Ministry of Education Planning Research Projects on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023.

“Hermeneutics and the Logic of Human Sciences”, the Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences Shanghai, 2021.

A Sub-project of the National Major Research Project (China) “The Compilation of Hermeneutics Lexicon and the Construction of Chinese Hermeneutics”, 2019.

Journal Articles

1. “The ‘Application’ and Trends of Hermeneutics”, Social Science Front, No. 5, 2025.

2. “Causal Explanation and Meaning Understanding”, Social Sciences, No. 11, 2023.

3. “Understanding, Interpretation and Translation”, Philosophical Researches, No. 12, 2022.

4. “The Origin of Modern Hermeneutics: between F. Schlegel and Schleiermacher”, Philosophical Trends, No. 9, 2022.

5. “The Clarification and Remolding of the Concept Auslegung by Modern Methodical Hermeneutics”, Academic Monthly, No. 12, 2022.

6. “Hermeneutics and the Logic of Social Sciences – Rethinking the Debate between Habermas and Gadamer”, Social Sciences, No. 6, 2022.

7. “The Fusion of Geisteswissenschaften and Hermeneutics”, Tianjin Social Sciences, No. 4, 2022.

8. “The Logical Progression of the Geisteswissenschaften - Centered on Hermeneutics”, Academic Monthly, No. 12, 2021.

9. “Understanding and Praxis”, Journal of Shandong University, No. 1, 2020.

10. “Welches Recht ist Gerecht?”, in The Owl’s Flight: Hegel’s Legacy of to Contemporary Philosophy, De Gruyter, 2022.

11. “On Gadamer’s Concept of Bildung”, in West-Eastern Mirror, Schöningh, 2020.

Books

1. Understanding and Method: Investigations into the Problem of Methodology from the Hermeneutic Perspective, People's Publishing House (China), 2022.

2. Hermeneutik gegen Methode? Probleme und Perspektiven, Königshausen & Neumann, 2015.

Translations

Hermeneutics (Entries), East China Normal University Press, 2023. [from German into Chinese]

Several Articles [from German or English into Chinese]

Academic Title

1. Secretary General and Member of Executive Committee of China Hermeneutics Association

2. Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for German Philosophy

3. Deputy Director and Researcher of Shanghai Social Sciences Innovation Research Base “Chinese Hermeneutics”

4. Brill Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Reihe: jena.sophia. Studien und Editionen zum deutschen Idealismus und zur Frühromantik

Contact

E-mail: niuwenjun2023@163.com