NCID-1407
James Garrison
Teaching Fellow
University of Bristol
Education/Degree:
1 Philosophy (University of Vienna)
About
James Garrison obtained his doctorate in 2015 from University of Vienna's Department of Philosophy, where he has been teaching courses on ethics, Judith Butler, classical Chinese philosophy, and American transcendentalism. His dissertation deals with Confucian, phenomenological, pragmatist, and post-structuralist approaches to subject life (title: The Aesthetic Life of Power).He previously studied at the University of Hawaii at Minoa, where he had the good fortune to work with professor Roger Ames and make Chinese philosophy, language, and culture significant components of his scholarship in the course of research work at Hainan University, Peking University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Additionally, he is interested in using Hegelian approaches like that of Judith Butler to consider questions of race, class, and gender
Current Work
Hopeful Irony - Kant, Arendt, and Li Zehou on the role of aesthetics in political philosophyBlack Bodies That Matter - Expanding Judith Butler's framework to address the Black Lives Matter phenomenonSocialism with Confucian Characteristics - A look at the role of Confucianism in the contemporary rhetoric and practice of the People's Republic of China. .His work can be found in books including Sovereign Justice: Global Justice in a World of Nations (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011), Applied Ethics: Old Wine in New Bottles? (Sapporo: Hokkaido University, 2011), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013) and Non-Western Encounters with Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (London: Ashgate, 2015) as well as in journals such as Contemporary Pragmatism, teorema, and Frontiers of Philosophy in China.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Afroamerican and African studies, philosophy