Ralph Weber, Philippe Major, Yim Fong Chan und Milan Matthiesen at “Journée d’études SHHIP“
Ralph Weber, Philippe Major, Yim Fong Chan and Milan Matthiesen participated in the workshop "Journée d'études SHHIP". The event was organised by Arnault Skornicki (Paris Nanterre, ISP) and Mathieu Hauchecorne (Paris 8, Cresppa-Labtop), with the support of Thomas Brisson (Paris 8, Cresppa-Labtop), and took place in Paris on 20 June 2023.
The afternoon of the workshop was devoted to the topic "Boundaries (of the field) of philosophy: the case of the Chinese-speaking world". Ralph Weber and Philippe Major gave a lecture on "The Exterior of Philosophy? Toward a Sociology of Modern Confucian Philosophy". Yim Fong Chan and Milan Matthiesen presented a paper on "Mapping Modern Confucian Networks (1911-2011)".
The research presented at the workshop shed light on the processes through which Confucian Philosophy was reconfigured in the 20th century, largely through contact with European epistemic and political worlds. This opened up a space to reflect on the implications of crossing European and non-European terrains, and applying “Western” social science concepts to the latter, as well as to question the boundaries of research objects, asking how classifications operate that include or exclude epistemological traditions from the field of philosophy as it has been defined in the European and North American worlds.
Ralph Weber is Associate Professor of European Global Studies at the Institute for European Global Studies. He specializes in Political Theory, Chinese Politics, and modern Confucianism. Currently, he is the President of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy and the Chair of the Section on Political Theory in the Swiss Political Science Association.
Philippe Major is a postdoctoral researcher in the SNSF-funded project The Exterior of Philosophy at the Institute for European Global Studies. His research interests include Modern Chinese Philosophy, Modern Chinese Intellectual History, New Confucianism, Sociology of Philosophy, The Relationship between Modernity and Tradition, as well as Textual Authority.
Yim Fong Chan is an SNSF fellow in the project The Exterior of Philosophy at the Institute for European Global Studies. In her dissertation, she investigates Confucian philosophy in China between 1949 and 1976. Her general research interests lie in the area of New Confucianism and Chinese intellectual history.
Milan Matthiesen is a research fellow in the SNSF-funded project The Exterior of Philosophy at the Institute for European Global Studies. His research interests include New Confucianism in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the development of modernity in the 19th and early 20th century in Europe and Asia, the history of philosophy, conceptual History, and the sociology of philosophy, as well as contemporary political theory.