Kohei Saito | |
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| 斎藤 幸平 | |
.jpg) Saito at theFrankfurt Book Fair in 2024 | |
| Born | (1987-01-31)January 31, 1987 (age 38) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo(withdrawal) Wesleyan University(BA) Free University of Berlin(MA) Humboldt University of Berlin(PhD) |
| Thesis | Natur gegen Kapital (Nature versus Capital)[citation needed] |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Region | Japanese philosophy |
| School | Continental,Marxism |
| Institutions | Osaka City University University of Tokyo |
| Main interests | |
| Notable works | Karl Marx's Ecosocialism (2017),Capital in the Anthropocene (2020),Marx in the Anthropocene -Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (2022) |
Kohei Saito (斎藤 幸平,Saitō Kōhei) (born January 31, 1987)[1] is a Japanesephilosopher. He is anassociate professor at theUniversity of Tokyo. Saito works on ecology and political economy from aMarxist perspective. His 2020 bookCapital in the Anthropocene has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in Marxist thought in Japan.[2][3]
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Saito graduated from Shiba Junior & Senior High School (芝中学校・芝高等学校), a private school in Tokyo.[when?] Saito studied [philosophy?] at theUniversity of Tokyo (UTokyo) for three months[when?] and voluntarily withdrew from UTokyo. He enrolled inWesleyan University,Connecticut from 2005 to 2009 as a Freeman Asian Scholarship recipient.[4][5] In 2009, he began his master's studies at theFree University of Berlin, and in 2012 he switched toHumboldt University of Berlin where he was enrolled until 2015.[6]Andreas Arndt was his doctoral advisor.[citation needed]
Saito was subsequently[when?] a visiting scholar at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.[citation needed] In 2016, Saito published the bookNature versus Capital: Marx's Ecology in his Unfinished Critique of Capitalism, which is based on his doctoral dissertation. In it, he reconstructsKarl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, by drawing on the manuscripts and excerpts from Marx's estate.[7]
Saito co-edited Volume 18 of Division Four of theMarx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, which was published in 2019. Work on this book had informed his dissertation, which he completed at theHumboldt University of Berlin.[when?] In 2017, the English-language version of his book was published. From 2017 to March 2022 he was an associate professor atOsaka City University.[6] He was made an associate professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies in April 2022.[8]
His 2020 published volumeCapital in the Anthropocene became an unexpectedbestseller in Japan, selling over 250,000 copies by May 2021,[2] sales of which rose to more than 500,000 by mid-2022.[3][9] In February 2023, Saito publishedMarx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism,[10] and the English translation of his "degrowth manifesto" was published in 2024.[11]
In 2018, Saito won theDeutscher Memorial Prize for Marxist Research named afterIsaac Deutscher,[12] as first Japanese and youngest person to receive the award.[13] In 2020, he was awarded the JSPS Prize by theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science for his book Capital in the Anthropocene.
The book's success has inspired a renaissance of interest in Marxist thought.
... bookshop chains cleared space for special displays of revivalist Marxist literature.
同時に、私がアメリカに留学した際、ウェズリアン大学がくれた「フリーマン奨学金」には受給条件が一つだけありました。
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)斎藤幸平さんは、この『大洪水の前に』でマルクス研究者の最高権威ドイッチャー記念賞（2018年度）を日本人初・史上最年少（当時31歳）で受賞。
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