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Sakurai Takamichi

サクライ タカミチ | Sakurai Takamichi
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Senior Researcher
Research field  (5): History of thought ,  Sociology ,  Politics ,  Sociology ,  Local studies
Research keywords  (11): comparative political theory ,  post-fascism ,  alienation ,  authoritarianism ,  fascism ,  totalitarianism ,  Erich Fromm ,  Critical Theory ,  psychoanalysis ,  narcissism ,  democracy
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2013 - 2013 Political Theory and Narcissism
  • 2011 - Grant for Teaching Assistantship
Papers (11):
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. The authoritarian orientation in liberal democracies: Labor market and workplace authoritarianism. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (Wiley). 2024. 1-10
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. Postfascism in Germany: Application of a Frommian theory of authoritarianism. Polity (University of Chicago Press). 2024. forthcoming
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. Introduction to symposium on left authoritarianism: Comparative politics and comparative political theory. Comparative Political Theory (Brill). 2021. 1. 2. 153-158
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. Aspirational fascism versus postfascism: A conceptual history of a far-right politics. History of European Ideas (Routledge, Taylor & Francis). 2021. Online First. 1-12
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. The socio-theoretical relevance of Erich Fromm’s psychoanalytic conception of narcissism: Towards a Frommian critical social theory of narcissism. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory (Berghahn). 2021. 68. 166. 1-30
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MISC (11):
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. Ukraine crisis and ending of Germany’s reliance on Russia. Journal Jōkyō. 2022. 5. 2. 164-166
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. What is Baader-Meinhof? The rise and fall of the Red Army Faction. Journal Jōkyō. 2022. 5. 1. 140-146
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. The German far-right party AfD put on watchlist. Journal Jōkyō. 2021. 4. 3. 218-223
  • Sakurai, Takamichi, Tampio, Nicholas. Editorial statement. Comparative Political Theory (Brill). 2021. 1. 1. 1-2
  • Sakurai, Takamichi. The perennial dilemmas for Germany in the corona crisis. Journal Jōkyō. 2020. 3. 3. 99-105
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Books (4):
  • Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought
    Edward Elgar 2024
  • Erich Fromm: A Political Theory of Fascism (Routledge series "Political Theorists beyond the Canon")
    Routledge (under contract) 2023
  • New Perspectives on Comparative Political Theory
    Palgrave Macmillan (under contract) 2022
  • Political Theories of Narcissism: Towards Self-Reflection on Knowledge and Politics from the Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Erich Fromm and Fujita Shōzō (Politikwissenschaft, Band 212)
    LIT Verlag 2018 ISBN:9783643909770
Lectures and oral presentations  (20):
  • The authoritarian orientation in liberal democracies: Labour market and workplace authoritarianism
    (Political Studies Association (PSA), 72th Annual International Conference, University of York, UK (accepted) 2022)
  • Reflections on comparative political theory: A methodological aporia
    (American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, US 2021)
  • The scope of postfascism: A perspective on Macronism
    (Political Studies Association (PSA), 71st Annual International Conference, Queens University Belfast, UK 2021)
  • The Tennō system and totalitarianism: An intellectual history of 20th-century Japan as seen in Fujita Shōzō
    (34. Tagung der Initiative zur historischen Japanforschung, Free University of Berlin 2019)
  • The socio-theoretical significance of Erich Fromm’s psychoanalytic conception of narcissism in his socio-pathological theory of alienation
    (2019 International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) Conference, University of Queensland 2019)
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Education (2):
  • - 2017 Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance
  • 2009 - 2014 University of Heidelberg Faculty of Philosophy
Professional career (1):
  • Dr. phil. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Work history (6):
  • 2022/05 - 現在 Cross Philosophies, Ltd. Collaborative Researcher
  • 2019/10 - 現在 Keio University SFC Campus Keio Research Institute Senior Researcher
  • 2020/04 - 2021/09 Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Language and Cultural Studies - Japanese Studies Lecturer
  • 2019/04 - 2019/09 Hamburg German-Japanese Society Lecturer in Japanese Language
  • 2017/06 - 2018/07 Universitity Clinic Heidelberg Department of General Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine Visiting Scholar
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Committee career (3):
  • 2022 - 現在 Routledge book series "Political Theorists beyond the Canon" (contracted) Co-Editor
  • 2021 - 現在 Association for Global Political Thought (Harvard University) Member of the Advisory Council
  • 2020 - 現在 Comparative Political Theory (Brill) Founder & Co-Editor-in-Chief
Association Membership(s) (11):
American Political Science Association ,  The Association for Political Theory ,  Political Studies Association ,  International Erich Fromm Society ,  THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY ,  JAPANESE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ,  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ,  THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT ,  JAPANESE CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT ,  THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY IN JAPAN ,  三田社会学会
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