Contributors
- Contributors
Richard F. Calichman teaches at the City College of New York, CUNY, where he is an associate professor of Japanese studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. His publications include Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West (2004), What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (2005), Contemporary Japanese Thought (2005), and Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan (2008).
Chris Goto-Jones is Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and director of the Modern East Asia Research Centre (www.mearc.eu). He studied at Cambridge and Keiō universities and received his PhD from Oxford University. He has published on themes in the intellectual history of modern Japan, with a focus on the history of political and ethical philosophy. His publications include Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and Co-prosperity (2005) and (ed.) Re-politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy (2007). He is currently working on a book for Cambridge University Press, "Warrior Ethics in Japan: Bushidō as Intellectual History." [End Page 239]
Lewis E. Harrington teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation at Cornell University in the field of East Asian literature was on wartime Japanese philosophical discourses of production, technology, and subjectivity. He has published translations of book chapters and essays by Kamei Hideo, Ukai Satoshi, Kasai Hirotaka, and Morinaka Takaaki. He is translating essays for The Miki Kiyoshi Reader and is finishing translations of Miki's Logic of Imagination (Kōsōryoku no ronri) and Philosophy of Technology (Gijutsu tetsugaku).
John Namjun Kim is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches theory and criticism at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His publications include "The Temporality of Empire: The Imperial Cosmopolitanism of Miki Kiyoshi and Tanabe Hajime" (2006), "Kant's Secret Article: Irony, Performativity, and History in Zum Ewigen Frieden" (2007), and "Südländisch: The Optics of Fear in Reference to Foucault" (forthcoming). He is a member of the editorial collective of Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation (University of Hong Kong Press) and is currently (2008—9) senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz.
Takeshi Kimoto is a PhD candidate in East Asian literature at Cornell University. For his dissertation he is working on Japanese philosophical discourse in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the Kyoto School of philosophy in the context of Japanese empire and total war.
Aaron Stephen Moore is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Arizona State University. He is currently working on a book manuscript on discourses of technology among intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers in Japan and its empire during the interwar and wartime periods.
Naoki Sakai is a professor in the departments of comparative literature and Asian studies and the graduate field of history at Cornell University. He has published in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, studies of racism and nationalism, and histories of semiotic and literary multitude. His publications include Translation and Subjectivity (in English, Japanese, and Korean); Voices of the Past (in English and Japanese; Korean forthcoming); Stillbirth of the Japanese as an Ethnos and as a Language (in Japanese and Korean); Japan, Image, the United States — Community of Sympathy and Imperial Nationalisms (in Japanese and Korean); TRACES 1, "Specter of the West"; and TRACES 4, "Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference" (coedited with Jon Solomon). [End Page 240]
Christian Uhl studied Japan studies and modern sinology at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg (Germany), Nihon University (Japan), and Shanghai Foreign Languages University. His dissertation, "Wer war Takeuchi Yoshimis Lu Xun? Ein Annaeherungsversuch an ein Monument der japanischen Sinologie" ("Who Was Takeuchi Yoshimi's Lu Xun? Approaching a Monument of Japanese Sinology"), was awarded the JaDe-Prize 2003 and was published as a book in the same year by Iudicium. He was a Japanese Interpreter and a guest lecturer at the universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg and then worked at the University of Leiden, first as a postdoctoral research fellow and subsequently as a full-time lecturer. He is currently a professor of Japanese studies at the University of...
