Introduction

Gabriella Stanchina holds a Phd in Western Philosophy from the Catholic University of Milan, and a PhD in Chinese Philosophy from Fudan University, Shanghai. Her research area is Chinese-Western Comparative Philosophy, with particular focus on the problem of self-consciousness in Mou Zongsan and Novalis. Her publications include Il limite generante. Analisi delle Fichte Studien di Novalis [The generating boundary. Analysis of Novalis’ Fichte Studien] (2002), and several comparative articles including: ‘Zhi 知as unceasing dynamism and practical effort. The common root of knowledge and action in Wang Yangming and Peter Sloterdijk’ (Wenxue Journal 2015), ‘The butterfly dream as “creative dream”: dreaming and subjectivity in Zhuangzi and María Zambrano’ (Asian Philosophy 2018), and ‘Naming the unnamable: a comparison between Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Laozi and Derrida's Khōra’ (Dao, 2020).