Li Qiankun, born in 1987 in Shangqiu, Henan Province, graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Heilongjiang University in 2010, and graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Nanjing University in 2017 with a PhD in philosophy. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Marxism of Nanjing University. He is a member of the Chinese Society for the History of Marxist Philosophy, a member of the Chinese Society for the Study of Marxist-Engels Text and Literature, a member of the International Lukács Society, and a Fellow of the Institute for Critical Theory (InkriT) in Berlin, and was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council as a visiting scholar at Humboldt University of Berlin from October 2015 to September 2016.
He is currently engaged in research on the history of Marxist development and foreign Marxism, especially the tradition of critique of political economy of the Frankfurt School, and a compare study on the German and French Critical Theory. His representative work is: “Value-Form, State Derivation and Critical Theory: A Study of the New Marx Reading Movement in Germany”(2021). He has published more than 50 papers and 10 translations in journals such as Philosophical Research, Philosophical Trends, Marxism and Reality, and the Yearbook of the International Lukács Society. He presided over one project of the National Social Science Foundation of China, one project of the Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, and participated in one major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China.