Shinichiro Kurimoto

Shinichiro Kurimoto (栗本慎一郎) was born at Tokyo in 1941 and is a Japanese author and a politician. He is also an economic anthropologist and a philosopher who introduced the ideas of Karl Polanyi and his younger brother Michael Polanyi to Japan. He was a professor at universities such as Meiji University and Northwestern University.^[1]

During the 1980s his works were categorized in Japan as "new academism", which included works by Akira Asada, Kojin Karatani and Shigehiko Hasumi.^[2]

He acted as a judge in the television show "Iron Chef".^[3]

Works

Academic books

• Economic anthoropology 経済人類学
• Economy as illusions　幻想としての経済
• Apes in pants　パンツをはいたサル ISBN 4768468993 ISBN 978-4768468999
• The iron maiden　鉄の処女
• Meaning and Living　意味と生命
• Budapest story ブダペスト物語

Literary books

• Against girls 反少女(short stories)
• Against literary theories 反文学論(criticism)
• The blood of Tokyo cries doooooooon 東京の血はどおーんと騒ぐ　(an essay like a novel)

Political Affiliations

• Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)^[4]
• Internet Breakthrough Party of Japan

See also

• tacit knowing
• Peter F Drucker　- He visited Japan to talk with Kurimoto about Karl Polanyi who discovered his talent.^[5]
• Masayuki Yamato - a scientist who instructed Haruko Obokata.He was influenced by Kurimoto in philosophy and identified himself as a member of 'Kurimoto school' in an essay titled 'SMALLTALK between AI and TK(tacit knowing)'.^[6]

Sources

1. http://horipro.co.jp/talent/SC001/
2. "Japanese Thought" written by Atushi Sasaki (Kodansha gendai shinsho)
3. http://horipro.co.jp/talent/SC001/
4. http://horipro.co.jp/talent/SC001/
5. Budapest story ISBN 4794937776 ISBN 978-4794937773
6. 'Contemporary Thought'(Gendai Shisou 現代思想　April 1987 published by Seidosha)

External links

• Homopants.com