Ken'ichi Mishima
Ken'ichi Mishima ( Japanese 三島 憲 一 , Mishima Ken'ichi ; born November 11, 1942 in Tokyo Prefecture ), is a Japanese social philosopher and university professor .
Life
Mishima studied philosophy , German and comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Tokyo . Between 1970 and 1980 he spent several years in Germany as a scholarship holder of the DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 1994 to 1995 he was a guest at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . He was a professor at Osaka University until he moved to Tokyo University of Economics as a professor of social philosophy and contemporary philosophy . Mishima is considered an important mediator of the so-called critical theory in East Asia. Other focal points of his work are modern philosophy, especially the reception of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin , the theory and empiricism of selective and multiple modernity, and intellectual discourses in Germany.
Awards
- 1987: Philipp Franz von Siebold Prize
- 2001: Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize
- 2011: Honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin
Fonts
- Essays
- Some “inadequate remarks” on the subject: Max Weber and Japan , in: Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Wolfgang Schwentker (ed.): Max Weber and das moderne Japan , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 9783525362419 , pp. 351 ff.
- Nietzsche in Japan from right to left. Rethinking the East-West dichotomy in entangled modernity , in: European Review, vol. 8, no. 4, Cambridge 2000, pp. 59-69
- Aestheticization between criticism of hegemony and self-assertion , in: Iwo Amelung: Discourses of Self-Assertion in Asia: China - Japan - Korea , Iudicium, 2003, ISBN 9783891298459 , pp. 25–47
- The crux of the matter. Since Fukushima, the Japanese public has noticed that it has been disempowered , Die Zeit of May 5, 2011, page 54
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2001 , DFG website , accessed on February 8, 2011
- ↑ Nicole Körkel: Free University awards honorary doctorate to Japanese social philosopher Dr. Ken'ichi Mishima , press release in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft dated February 7, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2011
- ↑ It points to our blind spot laudation by Jürgen Habermas in: FAZ , from February 18, 2011, page 33
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mishima, Ken'ichi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 三島 憲 一 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |