Akira Asada

Akira Asada (Japanese浅田 彰, Akira Asada, born March 23, 1957 in Kobe ) is a Japanese economist, philosopher and cultural critic.

Asada studied at Kyoto University, where he taught after completion of studies at the Institute for Economic Research. Later he headed the Graduate School of Kyoto University of Art and Design. He is considered a prominent representative of the Japanese post-modern philosophy of the 1980s. He debuted in 1983 with the signature Kozo to chikara: Kigōron o Koete (構造 と 力 記号 論 を 超え て, "Structure and performance semiotics addition. "). In 1984, his most famous work Tōsōron: Sikizu Kizzu no boken (逃走 論 スキゾ·キッズ の 冒険, " discussions on the principle of escape The Adventures of Schizo -Kids. "). In 1994 Rekishi no owari (歴史の終わり, "End of History " ) and 1999 's successor " Rekishi no owari " o Koete ( 「歴史の終わり」を 超え て, "After the end of history ' " ), in the following year Eiga no Seikimatsu (映画 の 世紀 末, " the end of the century of cinema "). With Karatani Kōjin he gave up in 2002, the Journal Hihyōkūkan out.

Source

• Francis Mulhern, " Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait", Verso Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84467-699-6, pp. 278 ff

• Author
• Economist
• Philosopher of postmodernism
• Philosopher ( 20th century)
• Philosopher ( 21st century)
• University teachers ( Kyoto University )
• Born in 1957
• Man
• Japanese