Research Faculty

NAKAJIMA Takahiro

NAKAJIMA Takahiro

Professor
Department of East Asian Studies (ii),
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
nakajima[at]
Research theme: East Asian Comparative Philosophy, World Philosophy

World Philosophy in East Asia

Research Topics

Comparative Asian Philosophy, World Philosophy


Research activities

Books
  • Nakajima, Takahiro, Wing-keung Lam, and Tomokazu Baba. Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization: After Confucianism: Whither Modern Chinese Philosophy?: Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization vol.4, 2014.3.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro, and Tomokazu Baba. Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization: Hawai’i conference: Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization vol.3, 2014.3.
  • 中島隆博, and 馬場智一. Contemporary philosophy in the age of globalization : Hong kong conference: 東京大学東洋文化研究所グローバル化時代における現代思想, 2014.1.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. Practicing Philosophy between China and Japan: UTCP, 2011.11.
  • 中島隆博. 解構与重建-中国哲学的可能性: UTCP, 2010.3. (in Japanese)
  • 中島隆博, and 小林康夫. いま、〈古典〉とはなにか――クラシカル・ターンを問う: UTCP, 2008.3. (in Japanese)
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. The Chinese Turn in Philosophy: UTCP, 2007.5.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Universalizing Tianxia in an East Asian Context.”Tianxia In Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Models For A Possible Planetary Order, 2023.10: 236-249.
  • 中島隆博. “リアル ノ テザワリ 、 カソウ ノ ツナガリ.”未来哲学: [東京] : 未来哲学研究所 ; 2020-, no. 5 2023.1: 173-176. (in japanese)
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “The Influence of Chinese Sources on the Formation of Philosophy in the Tokyo School: Focusing on Kuwaki Gen’yoku.”Journal of Japanese Philosophy 9 2022.9: 31-52.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Who Teaches What to Whom?”The Future of the Humanities and Social Sciences 3 2022.2: 8-13.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Takeuchi Yoshimi and Civilization.”Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 15, no. 1 2021.3: 32-47.
  • Takahiro, Nakajima. “Confucian Modernity in Japan Religion and the State.”Journal of Japanese Philosophy: Project MUSE 6, no. 1 2020: 45-62.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Seeking a Place for Earthly Universality in Modern Japan: Suzuki Daisetz, Chikazumi Jōkan, and Miyazawa Kenji.”Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation 2019.6: 216-227.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Civil Spirituality and Confucian Piety Today: The Activities of Confucian Temples in Qufu, Taipei, and Changchun.”The Varieties of Confucian Experience: Documenting a Grassroots Revival of Tradition 2018.7: 153-175.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Circulated and Contested Concepts: Prasenjit Duara’s “Dialogical Transcendence” and D. T. Suzuki’s “Japanese Spirituality”.”Studies in Japanese Philosophy : Nihon Tetsugakushi Kenkyu: 京都大学大学院文学研究科日本哲学史研究室 14 2017.12: 45-62. (in japanese)
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Japanese Nationalism in the Age of Globalization: Toward an Earthly Universalism.”Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asi 2017.9: 178-196.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucianism in Modern Japan.”The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy 2017.9: 43-63.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Conditional University and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia.”The ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’ in Early Modern and Modern East Asia 2017.1: 39-51.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Grounding Normativity in Ritual: A Rereading of Confucian Texts.”Chinese Thought as Global Theory: Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities 2016.5: 55-74.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Contemporary Japanese Confucianism from a Genealogical Perspective.”Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia 2016.3: 169-181.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Can a Presumed Consent Stop Organ Trafficking?”The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues 2014.1: 421-425.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “An Eschatological View of History: Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s.”The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia 2013.10: 135-154.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Introduction: Ogyû Sorai.”Philosophie japonaise – Le néant, le monde et le corps 2013.4: 113-123.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro, and Eddy Dufourmon. “La distinction des noms.”Philosophie japonaise – Le néant, le monde et le corps 2013.4: 124-145.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. ““Enlightenment and Autobiography in Japanese Modernity”(29-43).” Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts: UTCP, 2011.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “”Preface”(7-8)&”Critique and Morality: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Katsumi Umemoto”(9-23).” Whither Japanese Philosophy? III Reflections through other Eyes: UTCP, 2011.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Does the Word Exhaust Meaning?”Diogenes 57 2010.8: 66-76.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “La parole épuise-t-elle le sens?”Diogène 227 2009.7: 92-105.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “The Restoration of Confucianism in China and Japan : A New Source of Morality and Religion.” Facing the 21st Century, 2009: 37-50.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Religion et sécularisation en Chine : Pour un confucianisme critique.”Sécularizations et Laïcités 2009.3: 79-92.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Preface(7-9).” Whither Japanese Philosophy? Reflections through other Eyes: UTCP, 2009.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Preface (pp. 7-12) & “Critical Comparability in the Age of “Classical Turn”” (pp.77-92).” Utopia: Here and There: UTCP, 2008.
Misc. Articles
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Revisiting Ethics and Relationships with Others.”Hitachi Review 69, no. 1 (2020.1): 4-5.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Human-Co-becoming: Redefining What it Means to be Human for the Super Smart Society.”Hitachi Review 68, no. 5 (2019.11): 4-5.

Experience

YearEducation
March, 1991
The University of Tokyo (UT), Doctoral course in Chinese philosophy
March, 1989
UT, Master’s course in Chinese philosophy M.A. (1989)
March, 1987
UT, Faculty of Law Bachelor of Law (1987)

Professional Employment
present
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
present
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
March, 2014
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
April, 2000 – September, 2012
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, UT
April, 1997 – March, 2000
Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
April, 1996 – March, 1997
Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
April, 1991 – March, 1996
Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, UT
YearAcademic experience