Researcher Profile and Settings

Affiliation

• Research Faculty of Media and Communication　Media and Communication　Public Communication and Journalism

Job Title

• Professor

Degree

• Ph.D.（2014/10 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences）
• Master's degree（2006/03 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences）
• Bachelor's degree（2004/03 The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences）

J-Global ID

• 201501008104270090

Research Interests

• カント   社会思想史   政治思想史   社会契約論   18世紀   

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / History of thought

Educational Organization

•  Master's degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies
•  Doctoral (PhD) degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

Academic & Professional Experience

• 2015/04 - Today Hokkaido University Research Faculty of Media and Communication Division of Media and Communication Associate Professor
• 2022/05 - 2023/03 Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Filosofia Piero Martinetti Visiting Scholar
• 2014/04 - 2015/03 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo Integrated Human Sciences Program (IHS) Project Assistant Professor
• 2006/04 - 2009/03 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo Graduate Dept. of Advanced Social and International Studies Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)
• 2007/10 - 2009/01 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Faculty of Philosophy I Guest Researcher

Education

• 2006/04 - 2013/09  The University of Tokyo  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences  Graduate Dept. of Advanced Social and International Studies
• 2009/09 - 2010/03  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg  Faculty of Philosophy I
• 2004/04 - 2006/03  The University of Tokyo  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences  Graduate Dept. of Advanced Social and International Studies
• 2002/04 - 2004/03  The University of Tokyo  College of Arts and Sciences  Department of Social and International Relations (Interdisciplinary Social Sciences)
• 2000/04 - 2002/03  The University of Tokyo  College of Arts and Sciences  Human Sciences II

Association Memberships

• La Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani (Italian Kant Society)   JAPANISCHE KANT-GESELLSCHAFT   THE JAPANESE CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT   THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHTS   The Philosophical Association of Japan   

Research Activities

Published Papers

• Universality and Partisanship: the Concept of "Way of Thinking" in Kant's Political Philosophy

  Takuya Saito

  Japanese Kant Studies (22) 53 - 65 2021/07 [Invited]
  
• Kant on patriotism: ‘civic dignity’ and ‘way of thinking’

  Kant’s Concept of Dignity 303 - 324 2019/12/16 [Invited]
  
• Kant on Cosmopolitan Right between the "Universal" and "Particular": Republic, Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism

  Takuya Saito

  State of Community 2016 Report (Dhillon Marty Foundation) 52 - 64 2017/09 [Invited]
  
• The Conception of Wisdom in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant

  Takuya Saito

  Reason and Will in Political Thought (The Japanese Journal of Political Thought No. 16) 政治思想学会 (16) 144 - 175 1346-924X 2016/05 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Paradox of Democracy and the Concept of Republic in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant

  Takuya Saito

  Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought 藤原書店 (39) 92 - 110 0386-4510 2015/09 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Was ist der Naturzustand für Kant? Die Elemente und Ursprünge des Begriffs bei Kant

  Takuya Saito

  European Studies (13) 15 - 27 2014/01 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• The Problem of ”Government” in the Social Thought of Immanuel Kant: Or the Acquisition and Praxis of Patriotic "Way of Thinking"

  Takuya Saito

  Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought 藤原書店 (36) 50 - 67 0386-4510 2012/09 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Die andere „bürgerliche Gesellschaft“ bei Kant: das Problem des moralischen Bösen und die Strategie der Aufklärung

  Takuya Saito

  Working Paper for JSPS-DFG Japanese-German Graduate Externship 9 1 - 20 2012/08 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Kants Konzeption der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft als Lösung des Problem des Bösen

  Takuya Saito

  The Japanese Journal of Political Thought 風行社 (10) 303 - 334 1346-924X 2010/05 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Politics and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant

  Takuya Saito

  Komaba Studies in Society (16) 35 - 49 2007/03 [Refereed][Not invited]
  

Books etc

• Kant, Ethics and Politics: Way of Thinking, Civil Society, and Republic

  Takuya Saito (Single work)
  Kōyō Shōbō 2019/07 (ISBN: 9784771032286) 333 + 23 

  UTokyo BiblioPlaza: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/biblioplaza/en/A_00150.html

Conference Activities & Talks

• Kant and Ernst Ferdinand Klein on Political Legitimacy  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  2nd Kantian Foundations of Democracy Conference: Progressivism and Conservatism in Kantian Political Thought  2023/09
• How to Govern in Accordance with the Idea of Reason: Kant’s Second Thoughts on Patriotic Government in his Published Writings  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Kant on the Ideas of Reason: Meeting of the Italian Kant Society  2022/11
• Regierung oder Nation? Republikanischer Patriotismus bei Kant und Johann Adam Bergk  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Kolloquium „Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte“  2022/11
• Kant and Johann Adam Bergk on Patriotism  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Kantian Foundations of Democracy  2022/08
• Respect for Free Legislative Will as a Condition for Patriotism in Kant's Political Philosophy  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 9th Osaka Philosophy Seminar  2021/01  Online Conference  Osaka Philosophy Seminar
  
• Universality and Partisanship: Patriotism in Kant's Political Philosophy  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 45th Annual Conference of Japanese Kant Society (Joint Discussion 1)  2020/11  Online Conference  The Japanese Kant Society
  
• Kant on state of nature  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 13th international Kant Congress  2019/08  University of Oslo  The Norwegian Kant Society
  
• Kant’s Cosmopolitanism between Westphalian and Liberal World Order? Tomonaga Sanjuro’s first systematic Interpretation of Kant’s political thought in Japan  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  2018 International Conference “Reconsidering the Universal and the Particular in East Asia”  2018/08  Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University  Takuya Saito
  
• Kants Patriotismus als Denkungsart  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Kolloquium „Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte“  2018/05  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Germany)  Prof. Dr. Harald Bluhm
  
• The Universal and the Particular in the Reception of Kant's Political Thought in Modern Japan  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Rethinking Universalism and Global Citizenship from East Asia  2017/12  Conference Room of Institution of Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul  Professor Hang Kim
  
• Kant's Patriotism Reconsidered: Dignity and "Way of Thinking"  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  International Workshop: Kant's Concept of Dignity  2017/07  The Hitotsubashi University  The Kakenhi-Project (No.25770027), the TOYOTA-Foundation-Project to „Würde alter Menschen“ (D14-R-0798) and the Japanese-German Association of Applied Ethics (Principal Investigator: Professor Yasushi Kato)
  
• Kant on Justice: Dynamics of Political Development  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 14th Japan-Korea International Joint Conference for the Study of Political Thought "Justice Reconsidered"  2017/06  Rikkyo University  The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought
  
• Kant on Cosmopolitan Right between the "Universal" and the "Particular": Republic, Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  State of the Community 2016 "Citizens, Communities, and Multilayered Identities"  2016/11  The UNESCO Heritage Center, Paris  Dhillon Marty Foundation
  
• Kant and the Patriotism in German-speaking countries in the Late 18th Century  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 41st Research Conference of the Society for the History of Social Thought  2016/10  Chuo University  The Society for the History of Social Thought
  
• The Paradox of Democracy and Kant's Idea of Republic  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 39th Research Conference of the Society for the History of Social Thought  2014/10  Meiji University (Surugadai Campus)  The Society for the History of Social Thought
  
• Two Concepts of Commonwealth in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Workshop: “Universal Values in a Post-secular Era – the Case of China and Japan”  2014/09  The University of Tokyo (Komaba I Campus)  The University of Tokyo IHS Programm (Project 2)
  
• Kant's Social Contract Theory and Rawls  [Invited]

  Takuya Saito

  The 18th Research Convention of the Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought  2011/05  Himeji Dokkyo University  The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought
  
• The Political Meaning of Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  International Symposium on Attempts to Construct a "Philosophy of Coexistence" in Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions  2009/03  Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University  Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University
  
• Der Republikanismus Kants  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Kolloquium im Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456)  2008/07  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Germany)  Internationales Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456)
  
• Welche Bedeutung kann der Republikanismus Kants in der politischen Theorie haben?  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Die 3. Internationale Doktorandenkonferenz der vom DAAD geförderten Zentren für Deutschland- und Europastudien  2008/07  CIERA, Paris  CIERA(Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne)
  
• The Role of the History of Philosophy by Kant  [Not invited]

  Takuya Saito

  Kolloquium im Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456)  2007/10  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle/Germany)  Internationales Graduiertenkolleg von Deutscher Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich“ (Projekt Nr. 1456)
  

MISC

• Immanuel Kant, Ethics and Politics - Way of Thinking, Civil Society and Republic: The author-meets-critics-session's note

  Takuya Saito, Sosuke Amitani, Kazutaka Inamura, Hae Kim  Media and Communication Studies  74-  (73)  59  -83  2021/03  [Refereed]
  
• Enlightenment and the idea of perpetual peace: Kant

  Takuya Saito  Dictionary of German Culture  582  -583  2020/10  [Invited]
  
• Reading Guide: Avishai Margalit, The Decent Society, Harvard University Press, 1996.

  Takuya Saito  Yasushi Kato/ Tsuyoshi Kojima, Dignity and Society (Vol. 2), Hosei University Press  127  -132  2020/03  [Invited]
  
• Comments on Sosuke Amitani, The Idea of Republic (Hosei University Press, 2018)

  Takuya Saito  Research Report of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Towards a global standard of dignity as a philosophical concept: theoretical approaches, conceptual histories, and cross-cultural comparisons (18H05218)  147  -152  2019/03  [Invited]
  
• Book Review: Kim Hae, Kant's Political Philosophy (Keiso Shobo, 2017)

  Takuya Saito  Annals of the Society for the History of Social Thought  (42)  140  -143  2018  [Invited]
  

Awards & Honors

• 2018/09 The University of Tokyo University of Tokyo Academic Publication Grant
   Immanuel Kant, Ethics and Politics: Way of Thinking, Civil Society and Republic 

  受賞者: Takuya Saito
• 2015/11 The Society for the History of Social Thought Young Scholar Prize
   Paradox of Democracy and the Concept of Republic in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant 

  受賞者: Takuya Saito受賞論文「民主政のパラドクスとカントの共和制概念」、『社会思想史研究』第39号、2015年、92-110頁。
• 2010/05 The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought Young Scholar Prize
   Kants Konzeption der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft als Lösung des Problem des Bösen 

  受賞者: Takuya Saito受賞論文「『悪』の問題の解決策としてのカントの『市民社会』」、『政治思想研究』第10号、2010年、303-334頁。

Educational Activities

Teaching Experience

Committee Membership

• 2020/12 -2022/12   Japanese Kant Society   Editorial Board
• 2017/06 -2021/05   Japan Broadcasting Corporation   Member of the Hokkaido Regional Broadcasting Program Council

Social Contribution

Social Contribution

Social Contribution

• Can the "will of the people" be formed? Kant's Idea of Public Will

  Date (from-to) : 2017/11/02-2017/11/02

  Role : Lecturer

  Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication

  Event, Program, Title : Can the will of the people be wrong? The Idea of Democracy in the History of Thought (4)
• Kant's Political Thought in "For the Perpetual Peace" (1795)

  Date (from-to) : 2017/10/26-2017/10/26

  Role : Lecturer

  Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication

  Event, Program, Title : Can the will of the people be wrong? The Idea of Democracy in the History of Thought (3)

Others

• 2021/08 Excellent teachers in class questionnaires for university-wide education courses (Academic Year 2020, Summer Semester)

  The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education (Hokkaido University) selects the 31 teachers with the highest overall scores in the class survey results for all university education courses as "Excellent Teachers in the Class Survey for All University Education Courses" according to the selection criteria and publishes their names and other information on the university website.(https://www.high.hokudai.ac.jp/class-questionnaire/)
• 2017/07 Excellent teachers in class questionnaires for university-wide education courses (Academic Year 2016, Winter Semester)

  The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education (Hokkaido University) selects the 32 teachers with the highest overall scores in the class survey results for all university education courses as "Excellent Teachers in the Class Survey for All University Education Courses" according to the selection criteria and publishes their names and other information on the university website.(https://www.high.hokudai.ac.jp/class-questionnaire/)