Areas of Focus
- Social Theory
- Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School
Academic Background & Achievements
- PhD: Freie Universität Berlin, Sociology
- 2012: Awarded Outstanding Young Scholar by the German Time Politics Society
- 2015 & 2022: Best Paper Award at the Sociology Annual Conference
- 2019: Selected as Hubei Province Chutian Scholar
- 2020: Third Prize in the 16th Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement
- 2020: First batch of National First-Class Undergraduate Courses (Course: Western Sociological Theory (Part 1 & 2))
- 2021: Excellence Award in the First Nanjing University Teaching Competition
Publications
- The Time of Society: Formation, Change, and Problems, Zheng Zuoyu, 2018
- Soziale Geschwindigkeit: Ein theoretischer Grundriss und eine zeitpolitische Fragestellung, Zheng Zuoyu, 2012
- On the quadrants of the thing-world relations: a critical revision of Hartmut Rosa’s resonance theory in terms of thing-world, Zheng Zuoyu, 2023
- The Basic Categories of Thing-Human Relations: A Comprehensive Review of New Materialism, Zheng Zuoyu, 2023
- Reconsidering the Critique of Instrumental Rationality in the Algorithmic Animism World, Zheng Zuoyu, 2023
- The Systemic Composition of Time: The Concept of Time in Luhmann's Social System Theory, Zheng Zuoyu, 2022
- A critical review of Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, Zheng Zuoyu, Zhang Shuwen, 2021
- Die Max-Weber-Rezeption in der chinesischen Soziologie. Historisch-gesellschaftlicher Hintergrund, Übersetzungen und Forschungsansätze, Zheng Zuoyu, Huang Xinye, 2021
- The German Experience of 'Sociology Localization': The Role Controversy and Its De-Americanization Effect, Zheng Zuoyu, 2021
- The Institutionalization of the Life Course: Paradigms and Methods of Continental Life Course Research, Zheng Zuoyu, Hu Shan, 2017
Awards
- 2012: Awarded Outstanding Young Scholar by the German Time Politics Society
- 2015: Best Paper Award at the Sociology Annual Conference
- 2022: Best Paper Award at the Sociology Annual Conference
- 2019: Selected as Hubei Province Chutian Scholar
- 2020: Third Prize in the 16th Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement
- 2020: First batch of National First-Class Undergraduate Courses (Course: Western Sociological Theory (Part 1 & 2))
- 2021: Excellence Award in the First Nanjing University Teaching Competition
