Shinichiro Kurimoto

Shinichiro Kurimoto (栗本 慎一郎, Kurimoto Shin'ichirō, born 1941 in Tokyo) is a Japanese author and a politician. He is also an economic anthropologist and a philosopher who introduced the ideas of Karl Polanyi and his younger brother Michael Polanyi to Japan. He was a professor at universities such as Meiji University and Northwestern University.[1]

During the 1980s his works were categorized in Japan as "new academism", which included works by Akira Asada, Kojin Karatani and Shigehiko Hasumi.[2]

He frequently acted as a judge in the television show Iron Chef, appearing more often than any other judge.[3]

Works

Academic books

  • Economic anthropology 経済人類学
  • Economy as illusions 幻想としての経済
  • Apes in pants パンツをはいたサル ISBN 4768468993 ISBN 978-4768468999
  • The iron maiden 鉄の処女
  • Meaning and Living 意味と生命
  • Budapest story ブダペスト物語

Literary books

  • Against girls 反少女(short stories)
  • Against literary theories 反文学論(criticism)
  • The blood of Tokyo cries doooooooon 東京の血はどおーんと騒ぐ (an essay like a novel)

Political Affiliations

See also

Sources

  1. http://horipro.co.jp/talent/SC001/
  2. "Japanese Thought" written by Atushi Sasaki (Kodansha gendai shinsho)
  3. http://horipro.co.jp/talent/SC001/
  4. http://horipro.co.jp/talent/SC001/
  5. Budapest story ISBN 4794937776 ISBN 978-4794937773
  6. 'Contemporary Thought'(Gendai Shisou 現代思想 April 1987 published by Seidosha)
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