Scott Cook
Humanities (Chinese Studies and History)
Professor
Tan Chin Tuan Professor of Chinese Studies
Head of Studies, History
Research Specialisations
- Pre-imperial Excavated Manuscripts
- Early Chinese Intellectual History
- Pre-imperial Textual Formation
- Early Chinese Musical Thought
Teaching Modules
- Classical Chinese;Chinese Poetry
- Chinese Prose;Chinese Tales of the Strange
- The Historiography of Sima Qian
- Kong Zi: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
- The Annals of Lü Buwei, the First Book of Chinese Empire
- Intellectual History of Warring States China
- Philosophy and Political Thought 1
- Literature and Humanities 1
Teaching Modules
Since joining Yale-NUS, Associate Professor Kang has designed and taught a range of courses, including The Problem of Evil from the Enlightenment to Auschwitz, The History of History, History and Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, and Nietzsche: An Untimely Thinker and His Times. In the Common Curriculum, he has taught both Philosophy and Political Thought (PPT) and Literature and Humanities (LH).
Research Specialisations
- Political Theory
- History of Political Thought
- Carl Schmitt
- Militant Democracy
- Constitutional Theory
Teaching Modules
- Populism
- Continental Political Theory
- Theorizing the State
- Democratic Theory
- Comparative Social Inquiry
- Modern Social Thought
