Deng Xiaomang: Male, 1948 was born in the northeast of China and grew up in Changsha. He is a famous philosopher, aesthetician and critic in China. His sister is writer Can Xue (formerly Deng Xiaohua). Master of Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy of Wuhan University. Professor, Department of Philosophy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Director of German Philosophy Research Center. He is also the executive director of the All-China Society for the History of Foreign Philosophy, the vice president of the Hubei Society for the History of Philosophy, and the editor-in-chief of German Philosophy.
It mainly studies German philosophy, aesthetics, cultural psychology, and the comparison between Chinese and Western cultures. He founded "new practical aesthetics" and "new criticism", actively carried out academic criticism and cultural criticism, and intervened in the ideological process and spiritual construction of contemporary China, which had great influence in academic and ideological circles.