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Kohei Saito

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Kohei Saito
Trai đằng hạnh bình
Born(1987-01-31)January 31, 1987 (age 37)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo(withdrawal)
Wesleyan University(BA)
Free University of Berlin(MA)
Humboldt University of Berlin(PhD)
Notable workKarl Marx's Ecosocialism(2017),Capital in the Anthropocene(2020)
EraContemporary
RegionJapanese philosophy
SchoolContinental,Marxism
InstitutionsOsaka City University
University of Tokyo
ThesisNatur gegen Kapital (Nature versus Capital)[citation needed]
Main interests

Kohei Saito(Trai đằng hạnh bình,Saitō Kōhei)(born January 31, 1987)[1]is a Japanesephilosopher.He is anassociate professorat theUniversity of Tokyo.Saito works on ecology and political economy from aMarxistperspective. His 2020 book,Capital in the Anthropocene,has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in Marxist thought in Japan.[2][3]He is an advocate ofdegrowth communism.

Early life and education

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Kohei Saito was born in Japan.[where?] He graduated from Shiba Junior & Senior High School ( chi trung học giáo ・ chi cao đẳng học giáo ), a private school in Tokyo.[when?]

Saito studied [philiosophy?] at theUniversity of Tokyo(UTokyo) for three months[when?]and voluntarily withdrew from UTokyo. He enrolled inWesleyan University,Connecticutfrom 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 Berlinwhere he was enrolled until 2015.[6]Andreas Arndt was his doctoral advisor.[citation needed]

Career

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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 Metropolitan 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]

Work

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His 2020 published volumeCapital in the Anthropocenebecame an unexpectedbestsellerin 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, he publishedMarx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism,[10]and the English translation of his "degrowth manifesto" was published in 2024.[11]

Awards

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Publications (selected)

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See also

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References

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  1. ^Kohei Saito [@koheisaito0131] (31 January 2011).Đản sinh nhật だが[it's my birthday] (Tweet) (in Japanese).Retrieved2022-09-20– viaTwitter.
  2. ^abNEWS, KYODO."FEATURE: More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis".Kyodo News+.Retrieved2022-10-20.The book's success has inspired a renaissance of interest in Marxist thought.
  3. ^abMcCurry, Justin (2022-09-09)."'A new way of life': the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan ".the Guardian.Retrieved2022-10-20....bookshop chains cleared space for special displays of revivalist Marxist literature.
  4. ^Trai đằng, hạnh bình (2022)."Tư の câu tràng とマルクス - giáo dưỡng học bộ báo - giáo dưỡng học bộ báo".www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp.Retrieved2022-10-21.Đồng thời に, tư がアメリカに lưu học した tế, ウェズリアン đại học がくれた “フリーマン thưởng học kim” には thụ cấp điều kiện が nhất つだけありました.
  5. ^Vinh dương tử (2008-01-25).Lưu học thưởng học kim と tiết ước thuật: アメリカ lưu học にかかる phí dụng(in Japanese). Tam tu xã. p. 129.ISBN978-4-384-02050-2.
  6. ^ab"Kohei Saito".researchmap.jp.Retrieved2022-07-07.
  7. ^"Kohei Saito".perlentaucher.de.Retrieved2022-07-07.
  8. ^"Trai đằng hạnh bình ( サイトウ コウヘイ ) - tân nhậm giáo viên thiệu giới".University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022.Retrieved20 April2022.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^Schmelzer, Matthias; Vansintjan, Aaron (19 September 2022)."Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite".www.aljazeera.com.Retrieved2022-10-20.
  10. ^Maya Goodfellow (2023-02-28)."A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis".theguardian.com.Retrieved2023-02-28.
  11. ^Slow down. The degrowth manifesto,Astra publishing,ISBN9781662602368
  12. ^"'Karl Marx's Ecosocialism' wins the 2018 Deutscher Prize ".Climate and Capitalism.2018-11-25.Retrieved2022-07-07.
  13. ^"Trai đằng hạnh bình 『 đại hồng thủy の tiền に』 đãi vọng の văn khố hóa. Phát mại tức trọng bản も quyết định!".プレスリリース・ニュースリリース phối tín シェアNo.1｜PR TIMES.24 October 2022.Retrieved2022-10-26.Trai đằng hạnh bình さんは, この『 đại hồng thủy の tiền に』でマルクス nghiên cứu giả の tối cao 権 uy ドイッチャー ký niệm thưởng ( 2018 niên độ ) を nhật bổn nhân sơ ・ sử thượng tối niên thiếu ( đương thời 31 tuế ) で thụ thưởng.
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