Ken'ichi Mishima

Ken'ichi Mishima (三島 健一, Mishima Ken'ichi, born November 11, 1942), is a Japanese social philosopher and university professor.

Ken'ichi Mishima
三島健一
Born	11 November 1942 Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japan
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Known for	Social and Contemporary Philosophy
Scientific career
Fields	Philosophy
Institutions	University of Tokyo Chiba University Tokyo Keizai University

About

Mishima studied philosophy, German and comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Tokyo.[1] Between 1970 and 1980 he spent several years in Germany as a scholarship holder of the DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[2] From 1994 to 1995 he was a guest at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.[3] He was a professor at Osaka University until he moved to Tokyo University of Economics and Business as 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, above all the reception of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin, the theory and empiricism of selective and multiple modernity as well as intellectual discourses in Germany.[1][4]

Awards and honors

• Philipp Franz von Siebold Prize (1987)[5]
• Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize (2001)[6]
• Honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin (2011)[7]
• Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow (2017)[4]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Ken'ichi, Mishima; Wolfgang, Schwentker (2015). Geschichtsdenken im modernen Japan: Eine kommentierte Quellensammlung (in German). IUDICIUM Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86205-044-4.
• Habermas, Jurgen; Mishima, Ken'ichi; Suzuki, Tadashi; OÌ, Atsuko (2010). ああ、ヨーロッパ (in Japanese). 岩波書店. ISBN 978-4-00-022063-7.
• Marx, Karl Heinrich; Imamura, Hitoshi; Mishima, Ken'ichi; Tatsumi, Shinji; Hosomi, Kazuyuki; Muraoka, Shin'ichi; Kosuda, Ken; Yoshida, Tooru (2005). フランスの内乱・ゴータ綱領批判・時局論 (in Japanese). 筑摩書房. ISBN 978-4-480-40116-8.
• Mishima, Ken'ichi (2006). 現代ドイツ: 統一後の知的軌跡 (in Japanese). 岩波書店. ISBN 978-4-00-430994-9.

References

1. Akbaba, Ceren (2 January 2012). "ZAK | Public Science - Karlsruhe Dialogues - 2012: Everything in (dis)order? New obscurities in a globalized world - Speakers - Kenichi Mishima". www.zak.kit.edu.
2. "Prof. Kenichi Mishima - Humboldt Network". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
3. "Von, über und mit Japan reden : 120 Jahre Japan ~ Forschung in Berlin" (PDF). www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de (in German). Free University of Berlin.
4. "Robert Bosch Academy - Ken'ichi Mishima". www.robertboschacademy.de. Robert Bosch Academy.
5. "DFG, German Research Foundation - Contributions to German–Japanese Cooperation". Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 9 February 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-02-09.
6. "DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Eugen und Ilse Seibold-Preis 2001". www.dfg.de. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
7. "Freie Universität verleiht Ehrendoktorwürde an japanischen Sozialphilosophen Dr. Ken'ichi Mishima". idw-online.de. Nicole Körkel Press and Communication. Retrieved 12 August 2020.