Dr. Cao Cong（曹聪）
POSITIONS
XIAN JIAOTONG University
Associate Professer on Philosophy, Department of Philosophy 2021-
University College London
Visiting lecture, Department of Greek and Latin 2018-2019
Yang Zhou University
Lecture，Department of Philosophy 2013-2021
EDUCATION
Sun Yat-Sen University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2013
Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Dissertation: Plato’ Parmenides and Classical Dialectic
Northwest University
Bachelor Degree (B.S.) 2006
Chinese language & literature, The Department of Chinese Language
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Enlightening for Justice: The Philosophical Education of the Youth, by Cao Cong, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press,2021
Peer-reviewed publications
“The Surface and the Core of Nietzsche’ Thought”，in Humanities & Social Science Journal of Hainan University, 2017.No.5, p20-26.
“Leo Strauss’s Last Philosophical Education: A Reading of Leo Strauss’s 1971-72 Nietzsche Course”.in The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies, summer 2016/No. 26, p46-67.
“The Philosophy Descending to the City：the Opening of Plato’ Parmenides”.in Journal of Lanzhou University (social sciences), vol.40.2, p33-37.
“The Unfinished Conversion of A Philosophical Soul: Preliminary Considerations on Plato’s Parmenides”, in The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies, summer 2012/No.8,p69-82.
“Young Socrates in Aporia”, in The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies, autumn 2012/No.9，p47-61.
Book chapter
“Recollection and Imagination Leading to Being”, in Revelation and Reason(vol.7), ed. By Jia Dongyang, Shanghai: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016, p151-160.
“A Nietzschean Critique of Philosophy”, in Restart from the classical, ed. By Zhang Wentao &Cheng Zhimin, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2015, p465-479.
Book reviews
“What Is the Fragility of Goodness? ” Review of Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2001. In China Book Review,2008. No.12, p 75-78.
Translations
English to Chinese:
Leo Strauss, Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil: A course offered in 1971-1972, Edited with an introduction by Mark Blitz. Translated by Cao Cong, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2017.
Mitchell H. Miller, Plato's Parmenides: the conversion of the soul, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Translated by Cao Cong, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2015.
Michael Davis, The Autobiography of Philosophy: Rousseau's the Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Translated by Cao Cong& Liu Zhen, Beijing: Huaxia Publishing House, 2011.
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought, University of Chicago Press, 1992. Translated by Cao Cong, Beijing: Huaxia Publishing House,2010.
Michael Davis, Ancient Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Science, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. Translated by Guo Zhenhua& Cao Cong, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2008.
Greek to Chinese:
Plato’s Parmenides, coming soon.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
（“Limitations to Corporeity and Life in Chuang Tzu”）,Chinese Comparative Classical Studies Association annual meeting, December, 2013.
(“A Natural Transgression of Nature”), National Conference on Classical Natural Law, Chongqing University, June, 2015.
(“The Tyranny of Nature and Morality”), Youth Forum of Chinese Classics, Zhejiang University, Septenmber, 2016.
LANGUAGES
Chinese (native)
English (fluent)
German (reading knowledge)
Ancient Greek (reading knowledge)
