Albert Galvany

Albert Galvany

Dr. Albert Galvany (Barcelona, 1973) earned his degree in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1997, obtained an M.A. in East Asian Studies (Sinology) from Université Paris 7 in 2000, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Granada in 2007. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (2008–2010), Friedrich-Alexander Universität (2010–2011), the University of Cambridge (2011), Pompeu Fabra University (2011–2013), Université Paris-Diderot (2014), and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2014). He is the author of several monographs (his most recent work is Figuras de la excepción en la China antigua: sabios, desviados y autócratas, published by Editorial Trotta) and the editor of collective volumes (most recently The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China, published by the State University of New York Press). His articles on the intellectual history of ancient China, classical Chinese thought, and comparative philosophy of antiquity have appeared in leading international academic journals in these fields, such as Asiatische Studien, Monumenta Serica, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy East and West, Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, T’oung Pao, and Early China. He is currently engaged in teaching and research in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

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