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Papers by Takashi Kibe

Routledge eBooks, Aug 14, 2023

Journal of Social and Political Philosophy

It seems to be a challenging task for those non-Western scholars who are deeply immersed in Europ... more It seems to be a challenging task for those non-Western scholars who are deeply immersed in European intellectual resources to theorise multiple forms of modernity and deparochialise political theory. What difficulty awaits us in non-Western contexts, when we attempt to throw off these shackles and to open up alternative views of modernity? To address this question, this article attempts to critically examine Maruyama Masao (丸山眞男, 1914–1996), an influential scholar on the history of Japanese political thought, with respect to his view of Japanese modernity, thereby exploring what obstacles await him in pursuing the multiplicity view of modernity and how he actually or potentially overcomes them. In doing so, I develop two arguments. First, Maruyama's move towards multiple modernities remains incomplete because he fails to throw off the shackles of universal history. Second, however, we can identify an alternative way in his own thought that, though not taken by himself, potentia...

Machiavelli in Northeast Asia, Aug 18, 2022

Introduction: Legacies and Possibilities, Giorgio Shani and Takashi Kibe 1. Tagore and the Concep... more Introduction: Legacies and Possibilities, Giorgio Shani and Takashi Kibe 1. Tagore and the Conception of Critical Nationalism, Sudipta Kaviraj 2. Midnight's Children: Religion and Nationalism in South Asia, Giorgio Shani 3. Articulations of Religiously-Motivated Nationalism within Philippine Catholicism: A Critical Assessment, Manuel Victor J. Sapitula 4. Reconsidering the Relation between 'Sectarianism' and Nationalism in the Middle East, Fanar Haddad 5. The Irony of Secular Nation-Building in Japanese Modernity: Inoue Kowashi and Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takashi Kibe 6. Buddhism, Cosmology, and Great East Asian Co-prosperity Area: Multiculturalism and Nationalism in the Pre-war period Japan, Kosuke Shimizu 7. Political modernity in East Asia: Religion, nationalism and subversion of imperialism, Atsuko Ichijo 8. Religious Nationalism with Non-domination: Ahn Changho's Cosmopolitan Patriotis, Jun-Hyeok Kwak 9. The Structural Problem of Religious Freedom in China: Towards a Confucian-Christian Synthesis, Zhibin Xie 10. Augustine's Critique of Religious Identity and Its Implications for the Chinese Church, Wei Hua 11. Post-Chinese Reconnections through Religion: Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism, Chih-yu Shih 12. Conclusion, Takashi Kibe and Giorgio Shani

Religion and Nationalism in Asia, 2019

Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia, 2019

The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association

This article contributes to the critical engagement with luck egalitarianism by advancing two arg... more This article contributes to the critical engagement with luck egalitarianism by advancing two arguments. Firstly, it questions the cogency of the dichotomies – e.g., luck/choice, person/circumstance, agency/structure – and the accompanying moral ideal of pure voluntarism. This makes it difficult for luck egalitarianism to dissect appropriately the inequalities embedded in social relations, such as social networks and involuntary associations, in which voluntariness and contingency as well as agency and structure are intertwined. Secondly, it suggests that the relational approach, which has been developed, inter alia, in the empirical study of inequality, provides a morally and practically adequate perspective on egalitarian justice. The relational approach achieves this by converging upon those in‐between social relations that are irreducible to the macro‐level structure and to micro‐level agency. Moreover, a relationally sensitive perspective on inequality can adeptly respond to the difficulties that luck‐egalitarian theories encounter.

Citizenship Studies, 2006

It is a widely shared view that Japan is a culturally homogeneous country. This view is often dep... more It is a widely shared view that Japan is a culturally homogeneous country. This view is often deployed as justification for certain policy orientations to preserve cultural homogeneity. The goal of this article is to show that this line of thought is not acceptable on empirical and normative ...

Books by Takashi Kibe

Routledge, 2019

This book re-examines the relationship between religion and nationalism in a contemporary Asian c... more This book re-examines the relationship between religion and nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East, South and South East Asia.

Addressing empirical, analytical, and normative questions, it analyses selected case studies from across Asia, including China, India, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka and compares the differences and commonalities between the diverse configurations of nationalism and religion across the continent. It then goes on to explain reasons for the regional religious resurgence and asks, is the nation-state model, aligned with secularism, suitable for the region? Exploring the two interrelated issues of legacies and possibilities, this book also examines the relationship between nationalism and modernity, identifying possible and desirable trajectories which go beyond existing configurations of nationalism and religion.

Bringing together a stellar line up of contributors in the field, Religion and Nationalism in Asia will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian religion and politics as well as sociology, ethnicity, nationalism and comparative politics.