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Takahiro Nakajima

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Takahiro
Nakajima


Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

BIO

Takahiro is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His research focus is oriented towards East Asian philosophy in the comparative context of inter-East Asian and Western Philosophy, and World Philosophy by seeking for the “universalizing.” Previously, he was editor in chief of the International Journal of Asian Studies, an interdisciplinary, English-language forum for research in the humanities and social sciences. Today, he is director of the East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, where projects on world philosophy, world literature, and world history are carried out with young talented scholars.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Takahiro was involved in the program “The Human Condition in the 21st Century”.

PUBLICATIONS

“Takeuchi Yoshimi and Civilization”, in: Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2021


“Confucian Modernity in Japan: Religion and the State”, in: Journal of Japanese Philosophy, 2020


“Constitutionalism and Sovereignty: On Constitutional Problems in Japan”, in: Telos, 2019


Practicing Philosophy between China and Japan, 2011


The Chinese Turn in Philosophy, 2007

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