Saitō Kōhei

Associate professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Born in 1987. Received his PhD in philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin with a focus on economic and social thought. His 2017 book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy won the 2018 Deutscher Memorial Prize and has been translated into nine languages. His 2020 Japanese bestseller Hito shinsei no shihonron (Capital in the Anthropocene) won the Asia Book Award. Other publications include Zero kara no “Shihonron” (“Das Kapital” from Zero) and Boku wa Ūbā de nenza shi, yama de shika to tatakai, Minamata de naita (I Injured Myself in an Uber, Fought Deer in the Mountains, and Cried in Minamata).