Dr Wong Tai Tak, Andy

BA (HKBU) . MA (CUHK) . MA & MPhil (KU Leuven) . PhD (Liège)

. Lecturer
. Department of Social Science

Intro

Dr. Wong obtained his Ph.D in philosophy at the Université de Liège in 2017. His dissertation is entitled “Critical Life: Bergson, Canguilhem and the Critical Investigation of Life and the Living” under the supervision of Prof. Florence Caeymaex and Dr. Charles T. Wolfe. He is now preparing the publication of his first monograph entitled “Bergson and Canguilhem: A Critical Study of Philosophy of Life,” currently under review by Edinburgh University Press. He also received his MA and MPhil in philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, his MA in Intercultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his BA in Religious Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University.

Research Interests

Philosophy of Life; Contemporary French Philosophy; History of Modern Chinese Thought; Ethics, Religion and Secularization

Major Discipline

Journal Articles

黃大德 （2020）。〈從柏格森到岡居朗：二十世紀法國生命哲學的技術啟示〉，姚大志主編《自然辯證法研究》之〈法蘭西傳統：思考20世紀法國科技哲學傳統〉專題特輯。北京：中國科學技術協會 / 中國自然辯證法研究會 (審校中)
Wong, A. T. T. (2011). Hegel et Engels sur la famille et le politique. (Traduction par G. Lejeune). Revue Mosaique, 54-67.

Selected Conference Presentations

Wong, A. T. T. (2019, May 9). The Vital and the Political: Bergson on the Reinvention of the Politics. Paper presented at International Conference on Phenomenology and the Political, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Wong, A. T. T. (2016, April 22). Vie et Technique: Canguilhem et le renouvellement du bergsonisme. Paper presented at the Symposium on Georges Canguilhem. Science, technique, politique : perspectives actuelles, Université de Liège.
Wong, A. T. T. (2014, December 3). Life and technology in Bergson’s Creative Evolution. Paper presented at the workshop on Bergson and twentieth-century history of philosophy in France, Universiteit Gent.
Wong, A. T. T. (2013, June 21). Life as Constraint and as Challenge: Bergson, Canguilhem and the Perplexity of Vitalism. Paper presented at the Symposium on Forms of Vitalism, Universiteit Gent.
Wong, A. T. T. (2012, March 1). The Triumph of Seeing – Jacques Ellul on the Critique of Technology. Paper presented at the Symposium on Technique, politique et médiation, Université de Liège.
Wong, A. T. T. (2011, December 8). Critical Investigation of the Concept of Life: Canguilhem or Bergson. Paper presented at the Séminaire interuniversitaire des doctorants 2011-2012, Université de Liège.
Wong, A. T. T. (2011, June 28). Deleuze on the revival of Bergson’s élan vital. Paper presented at the 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference: Creation, Crisis, Critique, Copenhagen Business School.
Wong, A. T. T. (2011, May 6). Hegel and Engels on the Family and the Politics. Paper presented at the Symposium on Hegel and the Politics, Université Libre de Bruxelles.