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. Practicing Philosophy between China and Japan. Tokyo: UTCP, 2011.11.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. The Chinese Turn in Philosophy. Tokyo: UTCP, 2007.3.
Edited Books
  • Ames, Roger, and Takahiro Nakajima, eds. Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015.4.
  • Tomokazu, Nakajima Takahiro & Baba, ed. Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization Hawai‘i Conference, CPAG Booklet vol.3: CPAG, 2014.3.
  • Nakajima Takahiro, Lam Wing-keung,, and Baba Tomokazu, eds. Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization ANU Conference, CPAG Booklet vol.4: CPAG, 2014.3.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro, ed. Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization ANU Conference: CPAG, 2014.3.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro, ed. Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization Hawai‘i Conference: CPAG, 2014.3.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Takeuchi Yoshimi and Civilization.”Frontiers of Literary Studies in China: Beijing: Higher Education Press 15, no. 1 2021.3: 32-47.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucian Modernity in Japan: Religion and the State.”the Journal of Japanese Philosophy: State University of New York Press 6 2020.6: 45-62.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Constitutionalism and Sovereignty: On Constitutional Problems in Japan,.”Telos: Telos Press Publishing, no. 189 2019.12: 156-168.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Seeking a Place for Earthly Universality in Modern Japan: Suzuki Daisetz, Chikazumi Jōkan, and Miyazawa Kenji.” Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation. Edited by Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames.: University of Hawaii Press, 2019: 216-227.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Open Philosophy,.”SAI: International Association of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies, Sungkyunkwan University 2019.5: 227-250.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucianism in Modern Japan.” The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: Bloomsbury, 2017: 43-63.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Japanese Nationalism in the Age of Globalization: Toward an Earthly Universalism.” Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia: Routledge, 2017: 178-196.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucianism in Modern Japan.In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy.” The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy. Edited by Michicho Yusa.London: London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2017: 43-63.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Japanese Nationalism in the Age of Globalization: Toward an Earthly Universalism.” Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia. Edited by Sungmoon Kim, and Hsin-wen Lee: London and New York: Routledge, 2017: 178-196.
  • 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. Edited by Sébastien Billioud: Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017: 153–175.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Conditional Universlity and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia.” The ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’ in Early Modern and Modern East Asia: Brill, 2017: 39-51.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia.” The ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’ in Early Modern and Modern East Asia. Edited by Benjamin A. Elman, and Chao-Hui Jenny Liu: Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2017: 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. Ed. Jenco, Leigh: SUNY Press, 2016: 55-74.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. ““Contemporary Japanese Confucianism from a Genealogical Perspective”.” Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia, Eds.Philip J. Ivanhoe and Sungmoon Kim: SUNY Press, 2016: 169-181.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Contemporary Japanese Confucianism from a Genealogical Perspective.” Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia: SUNY, 2016: 169-181.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Can a Presumed Consent Stop Organ Trafficking?” The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues: Oxford University Press, 2014: 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: Brill, 2013: 135-154.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Critique and Morality: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Katsumi Umemoto,.” Whither Japanese Philosophy? Ⅲ. Edited by Takahiro Nakajima, UTCP Booklet 19. Tokyo: UTCP, 2011: 9-23.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Enlightenment and Autobiography in Japanese Modernity,.” Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts. Edited by Takahiro Nakajima, Xudong Zhang, and Hui Jiang, UTCP Booklet 21. Tokyo: UTCP, 2011: 29-43.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Does the Word Exhaust Meaning?”Diogenes: CIPSH, no. 57 2010.8: 66-76.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “La parole épuise-t-elle le sens?”Diogène, Presses Universitaires de France: CIPSH, no. 227 2009.7: 95-105. (in French)
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “The Restoration of Confucianism in China and Japan: A New Source of Morality and Religion,.” Facing the 21st Century. Edited by Lam Wing-keung, and Cheng Ching-yuen. Tokyo: Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture, 2009: 37-50.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Religion et sécularisation en Chine : Pour un confucianisme critique.” Sécularizations et Laïcités. Edited by Haneda Masashi, UTCP Booklet7. Tokyo: UTCP, 2009: 79-92.
Book Reviews
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Book Review on Prasenjit Duara, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future.”“Dialogical Transcendence and Hope.” In International Journal of Asian Studies: Cambridge University Press 14, no. 2 (2017.7): 197-206.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Dialogical Transcendence and Hope.”International Journal of Asian Studies 14, no. 2 (2017.7): 197–206.
Conference
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Figurative Reality: Compound of Reality and Fiction in Kūkai’s Shōjijissōgi,.” Presented at the Reality and Fiction in Philosophy and Literature(発表), University of Bonn/Tokio University/New York University, Online Conference, May 14 2021.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Universalizing tianxia in East Asian Context,.” Presented at the PKU Bergren Institute “Tianxia in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Models of Geopolitical Order,”(発表), Online, April 18 2021.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Okinawa in the Eyes of Ōta Masahide,.” Presented at the Colloque international “Historians of Asia on political violence”(発表), amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Collège de France, June 27 2019.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Dream of Association: Rethinking of Miki Kiyoshi.” Presented at the 2018 International Conference “Reconsidering the Universal and the Particular in East Asia”, Hokkaido University, August 8 2018.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Civil Society and Spirituality in the Post-secular Age,.” Presented at the Secular Religiosity and Religious Secularity: Rethinking the Asian Agency in the Shaping of Modernity, Ito International Research Center (3F), The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus), March 9 2018.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucian Modernity in Japan: Religion and the State,.” Presented at the China House and ICCT, NYU, 8 Washington Mews, NY, February 20 2018.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Constitutionalism and Sovereignty: On Japanese Constitutional Problems,.” Presented at the The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference on Constitutional Theory as Cultural Problem, Deutsches Haus of New York University, February 2018.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Civil Society in the Post-Secular Age,.” Presented at the Rethinking Universalism and Global Citizenship from East Asia, Yonsei University, December 6 2017.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucian Modernity in Japan: Religion and the State,.” Presented at the Confucian Modernity as Japanese Experience in East Asian Context, Kyoto University, November 2017.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Heavenly Universality or Earthly Universality?” Presented at the Conférence du Centre Chine, avec Madame Anne Cheng comme discutante, salle de l’IMAF, 96 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, May 23 2017.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Confucianism in Modern Japan.” Presented at the Dans le cadre du séminaire de Guillaume Carré, Annick Horiuchi, Aleksandra Kobiljski, « Histoire du Japon moderne et contemporain : permanences et ruptures », salle 7, 105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, May 18 2017.
  • Nakajima, Takahiro. “Different Forms of Modern Enlightenment in East Asia.” Presented at the Dans le cadre du séminaire collectif « Savoirs, institutions, économies. Histoires connectées et dynamiques globales » du projet Global History Collaborative, salle M. & D. Lombard, 96 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, May 5 2017.

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