Kohei Saito
Kohei Saito (born 31 January 1987) is a Japanese philosopher and researcher. He studies the history of economics. He is especially interested in Karl Marx and his philosophy and economics. He is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. He was one of the winners of 17th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize for 2020. He won the award for his work on "An Ecological Turn in Marxian Economics."
His book, "Marx in the Anthropocene : Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism" (Ren Xin Shi nomarukusu:Tuo Cheng Chang nokomiyunizumuhenoDao ) became a surprise best-seller. It is especially popular with younger Japanese people. It is part of a new popularity for Marx in Japan.
Education
He graduated from Shiba High School. Saito entered University of Tokyo and studied there for three months. He went to Weslyan University because he got a scholarship.
2009 Graduated Weslyan University
2012 Completed Masters Degree in Philosophy Free University of Berlin
2014 Submitted "Doctoral Thesis Natur gegen Kapital" to the Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
2015 Completed doctoral course in philosophy, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Visiting Researcher at Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
2016 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellow at California University Santa Barbara Visiting Researcher
2017 Associate Professor, Osaka City University
2022 Associate Professor University of Tokyo
Writing
Hegel and Capitalism, Andrew Buchwalter, Michalis Skomvoulis, Kohei Saito, Ardis B. Collins, Nicholas Mowad, Giorgio Cesarale, C. J. Pereira Di Salvo, Michael J. Thompson, Richard Dien Winfield, Lisa Herzog, Nathan Ross, Tony Smith, Louis Carre (SUNY Press, 2015)
The Unfinished System of Karl Marx: Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge for Our Times, Judith Dellheim, Frieder Otto Wolf, Riccardo Bellofiore, Fred Moseley, Joachim Bischoff, Kohei Saito, Georgios Daremas, Jan Toporowski, Patrick Bond, Michael Brie (Palgrave, 2018)
2018 Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy, Received the Deutscher Memorial Award for Marxist Research. Monthly Review Press, 2017. At the age of 31, he was the youngest to win the prize. He also became the first Japanese to win the award.
2021 New Book Award for his "People's Theory of Capital" (Ren Xin Shi no[Zi Ben Lun ] )
Other websites
Dong Jing Da Xue Da Xue Yuan Zong He Wen Hua Yan Jiu Ke Jiao Yang Xue Bu Zhai Teng Xing Ping
Researchmap: Kohei Saito
References
Marxists
Japanese philosophers
1987 births
Living people