Kohei Saito

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Kohei Saito
斎藤さいとう 幸平こうへい
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)
Main interests

Kohei Saito (斎藤さいとう 幸平こうへい, Saitō Kōhei) (born January 31, 1987)[1] is a Japanese philosopher. He is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Saito works on ecology and political economy from a Marxist perspective. His book, Capital in the Anthropocene, has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in Marxist thought in Japan.[2][3]

Early life and education

After graduating from Shiba Junior & Senior High School (芝しば中学校ちゅうがっこう・芝しば高等こうとう学校がっこう), a private school in Tokyo, Saito studied at first at the University of Tokyo (UT) for three months and voluntarily withdrew from UT to enroll in Wesleyan University, Connecticut from 2005 to 2009 as a Freeman Asian Scholarship recipient.[4][5] He later began his master's studies at the Free University of Berlin in 2009, and then completed his doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[6]

In 2016, Saito published the book Nature versus Capital: Marx's Ecology in his Unfinished Critique of Capitalism, which is based on his doctoral dissertation. In it, he performs the reconstruction of Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, in which he draws on extensive manuscripts and excerpts from Marx's estate.[7]

Saito co-edited Volume 18 of Division Four of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, which was published in 2019. Work on this book also informed his dissertation, which he completed at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Andreas Arndt was his doctoral advisor. In 2017, the English-language version of his book was published, and in 2020 he was awarded the JSPS Prize for it by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Furthermore, in 2018 Saito won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for Marxist Research named after Isaac Deutscher,[8] holding the distinction as the first Japanese and youngest person to receive the award.[9]

Saito was subsequently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and from 2017 to March 2022 he was an associate professor at Osaka Metropolitan University. He was made an associate professor at the University of Tokyo in April 2022.[10]

His 2020 published volume Capital in the Anthropocene became an unexpected bestseller in Japan, selling over 250,000 copies by May 2021,[11] sales of which rose to more than 500,000 by mid-2022.[12][13]

In February 2023 he published Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism.[14] An English translation of his "degrowth manifesto" has been published early the following year.[15]

Publications (selected)

See also

References

  1. ^ Kohei Saito [@koheisaito0131] (31 January 2011). 誕生たんじょう日びだが [it's my birthday] (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-09-20 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ NEWS, KYODO. "FEATURE: More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis". Kyodo News+. Retrieved 2022-10-20. The book's success has inspired a renaissance of interest in Marxist thought.
  3. ^ McCurry, Justin (2022-09-09). "'A new way of life': the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-10-20. . . . bookshop chains cleared space for special displays of revivalist Marxist literature.
  4. ^ 斎藤さいとう, 幸平こうへい (2022). "私わたしの駒場こまばとマルクス - 教養きょうよう学部がくぶ報ほう - 教養きょうよう学部がくぶ報ほう". www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Retrieved 2022-10-21. 同時どうじに、私わたしがアメリカに留学りゅうがくした際さい、ウェズリアン大学だいがくがくれた「フリーマン奨学しょうがく金きん」には受給じゅきゅう条件じょうけんが一ひとつだけありました。
  5. ^ 栄さかえ陽子ようし (2008-01-25). 留学りゅうがく奨学しょうがく金きんと節約せつやく術じゅつ: アメリカ留学りゅうがくにかかる費用ひよう (in Japanese). 三修社さんしゅうしゃ. p. 129. ISBN 978-4-384-02050-2.
  6. ^ "Kohei Saito". researchmap.jp. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  7. ^ "Kohei Saito". perlentaucher.de. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  8. ^ "'Karl Marx's Ecosocialism' wins the 2018 Deutscher Prize". Climate and Capitalism. 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  9. ^ "斎藤さいとう幸平こうへい『大だい洪水こうずいの前まえに』待望たいぼうの文庫ぶんこ化か。発売はつばい即そく重版じゅうはんも決定けってい！". プレスリリース・ニュースリリース配信はいしんシェアNo.1｜PR TIMES. Retrieved 2022-10-26. 斎藤さいとう幸平こうへいさんは、この『大だい洪水こうずいの前まえに』でマルクス研究けんきゅう者しゃの最高さいこう権威けんいドイッチャー記念きねん賞しょう（2018年度ねんど）を日本人にっぽんじん初はつ・史上しじょう最年少さいねんしょう（当時とうじ31歳さい）で受賞じゅしょう。
  10. ^ "齋藤さいとう 幸平こうへい（サイトウ コウヘイ） - 新任しんにん教員きょういん紹介しょうかい". University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ "More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis". Kyodo News. 2021-09-05. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  12. ^ McCurry, Justin (9 September 2022). "'A new way of life': the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan". The Guardian.
  13. ^ Schmelzer, Matthias; Vansintjan, Aaron (19 September 2022). "Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  14. ^ Maya Goodfellow (2023-02-28). "A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  15. ^ Slow down. The degrowth manifesto, Astra publishing, ISBN 9781662602368
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