Associate Professor
wisechen@263.netDr. Chen Wei is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He also holds the honorary position of Teacher at Capital Normal University. Dr. Chen completed his academic qualifications at Peking University, School of Government, where he obtained his Ph.D. (2005), M.A. (2002), and B.A. (1999) in political theory.
Since joining the Department of Politics at the International Studies School of Renmin University of China in 2005, Dr. Wei has been dedicated to teaching and research in the field. His expertise has led him to serve as a visiting scholar at prominent institutions such as Academia Sinica in Taiwan, as well as the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) and the Political Science Department at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nuremberg.
History of Political Thought
Political Theory
Political Philosophy
Hannah Arendt and the Recovery of the Political, Beijing: Law Press, 2008.
Carl Schmitt and the Logic of Politics, Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2015.
A History of Western Political Thought (Two-Volume Set), Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2020.
Morality and State: Two Premises of Modern Market– Oriented Economy: New Interpretation of Adam Smith’s Thought, Journal of Kunming University of Science and Technology (Social Sciences), 2001(04).
The Basic Ideas of Western Classic Republicanism, Fudan Journal (Social Sciences Edition), 2004(05).
An Analysis of Hannah Arendt’s Concept of ‘the Political’, Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences, 2005(09).
Carl Schmitt’s Critique on Thomas Hobbes, Academia Bimestris, 2012(01).
Republicanism, Patriotism and Modernity, Academia Bimestris,2014(03).
The Taiping Rebellion in the Perspective of Millenarianism,The Journal of Yunnan University Social Sciences Edition, 2015(03).
Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Action, World Philosophy, 2016(05).
From Voting to Acclamation: Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Exceptional Democracy, Studies on Party and Government, 2021(01).
Hannah Arendt and Jewish Politics, Jewish Studies, 2021; 17.
Selected Reading of the Classics of Political Theory
History of Western Political Thought
Selected Reading of the Classics of Political Theory