Akira Asada

Akira Asada ( Japanese 浅田 彰 , Asada Akira , born March 23, 1957 in Kobe ) is a Japanese economist, philosopher and cultural critic.

Asada studied at the University of Kyoto , where he taught at the Institute for Economic Research after graduating. He later headed the Graduate School of the Kyōto University of Art and Design . He is considered a prominent exponent of Japanese postmodern philosophy of the 1980s. He made his debut in 1983 with the font Kōzō to chikara: Kigōron o koete ( 構造 と 力 記号 論 を 超 え て , "Structure and performance. Beyond the semiotics "). 1984 followed his best-known work Tōsōron: Sikizu kizzu no boken ( 逃走 論 ス キ ゾ ・ キ ッ ズ の 冒 険 , "Discussions on the principle of escape. The adventures of the Schizo-Kids"). In 1994 Rekishi no owari ( 歴 史 の 終 わ り , "End of the story") and in 1999 the successor "Rekishi no owari" o koete ( 「歴 史 の 終 わ り」 を 超 え て , "After the 'end of the story'"), the following year Eiga no seikimatsu ( 映 画 の 世紀末 , "The end of the century of cinema"). With Karatani Kōjin he edited the journal Hihyōkūkan until 2002 .

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• Francis Mulhern: "Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait" , Verso Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84467-699-6 , pp. 278 ff