Name: Liu Shangming
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Han
Native place: Yongfeng, Ji’an, Jiangxi Province
Education: Ph.D. (graduate)
Title/Position: Associate Professor
Research fields:
- Basic principles of Marxism
- Philosophy of value
Department: Teaching & Research Section for “Introduction to Basic Principles of Marxism”
E-mail: lsm1994@scut.edu.cn
Education
1994.09 – 1998.06 Jiangxi Normal University – Bachelor of Law
1998.09 – 2001.06 Jiangxi Normal University – Master of Philosophy
2001.09 – 2004.06 Fudan University – Doctor of Philosophy
Professional Experience
2004 – present South China University of Technology (successively in School of Politics & Public Administration, School of Ideological and Political Education, and School of Marxism)
Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
- “Introduction to Basic Principles of Marxism”
- “Marxist Theory and Practice”
- “Situation and Policy”
Postgraduate courses:
- “Special Topics on Western Marxism”
- “Selected Readings of Original Marxist Philosophical Works”
- “Philosophy of Value”
- “Seminar on ‘Sein und Zeit’”
Research
Principal investigator of three provincial/ministerial projects, including “Value Nihilism and Marxist Philosophy” and “Exploring Paths to Overcome Value Nihilism.”
Has published 40+ papers since joining the university, many reprinted by RUC Photocopies.
Representative works:
- “The Value-theory Turn of Philosophy” (2005)
- “The Modernity Standpoint of Marxist Philosophy” (2005)
- “On Value Emotionalism” (2006)
- “A New Vision for Constructing the Essence of Value” (2007)
- “Constructing Absolute Value Ideas: An Epistemological Perspective” (2008)
- “On Establishing Absolute Value Ideas: A Critique of Value Relativism and Value Nihilism” (2011)
- “The Hidden Worry of Modernity: Value Nihilism” (2014)
- “Strauss’s Reflections on German Nihilism” (2014)
- “The Core, Dimensions and Space of the Party’s Political Construction” (2017)
- “The Commodification of Human Beings and Its Consequences” (2018)
Monograph: How Are Absolute Value Ideas Possible? (People’s Publishing House, 2014), awarded the Third SCUT Philosophy & Social Science Outstanding Book Prize.
Academic affiliations: None
