Chen Yi

Yi Chen 陳怡, currently Assistant Professor of Confucian Philosophy, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. Previously Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2016–2017), working on “Deceptive Simplicity” as an aesthetic principle. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, Canada (2015); M.A. in Classics from the University of Arizona, U.S.A. (2008); Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fu Dan University, Shanghai, China (2001); B.A. in Chinese Literature from Fu Dan University, Shanghai, China (1995). Recent publications include “Phenomenological Comparison: Pursuing Husserl’s ‘Time Consciousness’ in Poems by Wang Wei, Paul Celan and Santoka Taneda” (Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2017), and “Who is the Other? Goethe’s encounter with ‘China’ in his concept of Weltliteratur ” (in: Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World, 2015). Current research focuses on defining and leveraging the essence of Confucian Philosophy to address the compelling issues of our time and in this world, including an aesthetically ethical approach to ecology and climate change, and a project to explore the relationship between Confucian Philosophy, Japanese Aesthetics, and Organizational Life.