Zhang Shiying (张世英; born 1921) is a Chinese philosopher. He became a philosophy professor at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

in 1952. He began doing research into German Idealism in the 1950s. He emphasized God as a material force in order to justify his analysis into Hegel's theology. In 1972 he published a materialist analysis of Hegel that was translated and commented upon by Alain Badiou. In opposition to the Idealist System, Hegelian Contradiction was interpreted in light of the theory of One Divides Into Two. Since the 1970s he has written works in dialogue with the broader stream of

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, including Husserl and Derrida.

Sources

Negativity and Dialectical Materialism: Zhang Shiying's Reading of Hegel's Dialectical Logic Peter Button The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic Alain Badiou Tzuchien Tho (ed. and trans.)

References

{{Reflist People's Republic of China philosophers Marxist theorists Academic staff of Peking University