Takashi Shogimen - Curriculum Vitae#
RESEARCH FIELDS
- Medieval European Political Thought
- Modern Japanese Political Thought
- Comparative/Global Intellectual History
EMPLOYMENT
- Professor, Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, 2015 to present
- Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, 2012 to 2015
- Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Otago, 2007 - 2012
- Lecturer, Department of History, University of Otago, 2004 - 2007
- Research Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1997 - 2000
- Research Assistant, Medieval Texts Editorial Committee, British Academy, 1997 - 2001
DEGREES
- PhD University of Sheffield July 1998
- LLB Keio University (Japan) March 1991
GRANTS, HONOURS, FELLOWSHIPS
- 2013 The 35th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (History and Civilization Section), Japan
- 2008 - 2010 Marsden Award (Standard), The Royal Society of New Zealand
- 2006 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- 2006 Early Career Award for Distinction in Research, University of Otago
- 2004 PBRF Quality Evaluation Improvement Grant, University of Otago
- 1993 - 1995 Overseas Research Students Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom
BOOKS AND EDITED BOOKS
[1]] The Structure of Patriotism (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2019).
[2]] Patriotism: The Textbook for the Japanese Nation (Tokyo: Hyakuman’nen Shobō, 2019).
[3]] The Suppression of Speech: Mapping the Yanaihara Incident (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2014).
[4]] Visions of Peace: Asia and the West, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Vicki A. Spencer (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014; Oxford: Routledge, 2016).
[5]] The Birth of European Political Thought (Nagoya: University of Nagoya Press, 2013).
[6]] Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
[7]] Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition, 2010).
[8]] Political Diagnostics: An Introduction (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2006).
[9]] Against the Tyrant: An Intellectual History (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2002).
ARTICLES
[1]] ‘Rethinking Heresy as a Category of Analysis’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2020) online advance publication available: https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfaa039
[2]] ‘On the Elusiveness of Context’, History and Theory 55.2 (2016): 233-252.
[3]] ‘Dialogue, Eurocentrism and Comparative Political Theory: A View from Cross-Cultural Intellectual History’, Journal of the History of Ideas 77.2 (2016): 323-345.
[4]] ‘The Pressure of Coherence and the Diachronic Reconfigurations of Metaphorical Discourse: The Case of the Body Politic Metaphor in Medieval Political Texts’, Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3.1 (2016): 50-69.
[5]] ‘Censorship, Academic Factionalism, and University Autonomy in Wartime Japan: The Yanaihara Incident Reconsidered’, Journal of Japanese Studies 40.1(2014): 57-85.
[6]] ‘The “Armed Hand” of the Body Politic: Vegetius and a Military Dimension of Medieval Political Thought’, Storia del pensiero politico 2.3(2013): 407-424.
[7]] ‘The Best Medicine? Medical Education, Practice and Metaphor in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Metalogicon’, Viator 42 (2011): 55-74– co-authored with Cary J. Nederman; my contribution is 50%.
[8]] ‘European Ideas of Peace in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries’, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 7 (2010): 871-885.
[9]] ‘“Another” Patriotism in Early Shōwa Japan (1930-1945)’, Journal of the History of Ideas 71 (2010): 139-160 – reprinted in Critical Readings on Christianity in Japan, ed. Mark R. Mullins, 4 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), vol. 3.
[10]] ‘Treating the Body Politic: The Medical Metaphor of Political Rule in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan’, The Review of Politics 70 (2008): Special Issue on Comparative Political Theory: 77-104.
[11]] ‘“Head or Heart?” Revisited: Physiology and Political Thought in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,’ History of Political Thought 28 (2007): 208-229.
[12]] ‘Defending Christian Fellowship: William of Ockham and the Crisis of the Medieval Church, History of Political Thought 26 (2005): 607-624.
[13]] ‘William of Ockham on Christian Fellowship, Hōgaku Kenkyū 76 (2003): 321-341.
[14]] ‘Marsilius of Padua and Ogyu Sorai: Community and Language in the Political Discourse in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan’, The Review of Politics 64.3 (2002): 497-523.
[15]] ‘Yanaihara Tadao and the Ideal of Japan as the Pacifist State’, Shisō 938 (2002): 27-46.
[16]] ‘From Disobedience to Toleration: William of Ockham and the Medieval Discourse on Fraternal Correction’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52 (2001): 599-622.
[17]] ‘The Relationship between Theology and Canon Law: Another Context of Political Thought in the Early Fourteenth Century’, Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1999): 417-31.
[18]] ‘William of Ockham and Guido Terreni’, History of Political Thought 19 (1998): 517-30.
BOOK CHAPTERS
[1]] ‘Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis’, Democratic Moments: Reading Democratic Texts, ed. Xavier Márquez (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 49-56.
[2]] ‘Debating Japanese Patriotism in the Global Context: Alfred Ligneul and the Controversy on the Clash between Education and Religion’, Japanese Studies Down Under: History, Politics, Literature, and Art, eds. Nanyan Guo and Takashi Shogimen (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2018), pp. 129-136.
[3]] ‘William of Ockham and Medieval Discourses on Toleration’, in Toleration in Comparative Perspective, ed. Vicki A. Spencer (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. 3-21.
[4]] ‘William of Ockham’s Ecclesiology and Political Thought’, The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350), ed. Michael J. P. Robson (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 335-353.
[5]] ‘The French Missionary Ligneul and the Controversy on the Clash between Education and Religion’, Japanese Literature Cultivated by Christians ed. N. Guo (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2017), pp. 205-217.
[6]] ‘John of Paris and the Idea of Peace in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries’, John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power, ed. Chris Jones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 239-61.
[7]] ‘William of Ockham on Ecclesiastical Censorship’, Censorship Moments (Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought series), ed. Geoff Kemp (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 39-46.
[8]] ‘Patriotism and Republicanism in Japan: A Century Ago and Today’, Republicanism in Northeast Asian Context, eds. Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Leigh Jenco (London: Routledge, 2015), pp. 158-74.
[9]] ‘Ockham, Almain, and the Idea of Heresy’, Religion, Power and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card, eds. Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 153-68.
[10]] ‘Visions of Peace in Medieval European Political Thought’, Visions of Peace: Asia and the West, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Vicki A. Spencer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 103-118.
[11]] ‘Introduction’ (co-authored with Vicki A. Spencer), Visions of Peace: Asia and the West, ed. Shogimen and Spencer, pp. 1-9.
[12]] ‘Thomas Aquinas’, Sources of the History of Western Political Thought, eds. Osamu Kawasaki and Atsushi Sugita (Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2014), pp. 30-35.
[13]] ‘The Legacies of Uchimura Kanzō’s Patriotism: Tsukamoto Toraji and Yanaihara Tadao’, Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzō, eds. Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2013), pp. 93-112.
[14]] ‘Medicine and the Body Politic in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis’, A Companion to Marsilius of Padua, eds. Cary J. Nederman and Gerson Moreno-Riaño (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2012), pp. 71-115.
[15]] ‘Ockham’s Political Philosophy’, Islamic Philosophy and the Christian Middle Ages, vol. 2 Moral and Political Philosophy, eds. Masataka Takeshita and Shirō Yamauchi (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2012), pp. 91-113.
[16]] ‘William of Ockham’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (London: Sage, 2010), pp. 1424-1425.
[17]] ‘Wyclif’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (London: Sage, 2010), pp. 1433-1434.
[18]] ‘Wycliffism’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (London: Sage, 2010), pp. 1434-1436.
[19]] ‘War and Peace in the Political Thought of Medieval Europe’, The Idea of Peace in the History of Political Thought, ed. Shin Chiba (Tokyo: Ohfu Publishing, 2009), pp. 23-45.
[20]] ‘Imagining the Body Politic: Metaphor and Political Language in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan’, Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), pp. 279-300.
[21]] ‘William of Ockham and the Idea of Heresy in Medieval Europe’, The Crossroad of Political Thought and Intellectual History, eds. Seiichi Sumi and Shin Chiba (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2008), pp. 89-110.
[22]] ‘Wyclif’s Ecclesiology and Political Thought’, A Companion to John Wyclif, ed. Ian Christopher Levy (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006), pp. 199-240.
[23]] ‘William of Ockham and Conceptions of Heresy, c.1250-c.1350’, Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen and Cary Nederman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 59-70.
[24]] ‘Constitutionalism’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005) vol. 2, pp. 458-461.
[25]] ‘Heresy and Apostasy’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005) vol. 3, pp. 981-982.
[26]] ‘Liberty’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005) vol. 3, pp. 1272-1279.
[27]] ‘Leadership and the Public Sphere in the History of Political Thought’ Public Philosophy vol. 14: Leadership and the Public Sphere, eds. Yoshiaki Kobayashi and Kim Tae-Chang (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2004), pp. 1-34.
[28]] ‘Academic Controversy’, in G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 233-249.
[29]] ‘Ockham’s Vision of the Primitive Church’, The Church Retrospective: Studies in Church History 33, ed. R. N. Swanson (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1997): 163-75.
[1]] The Structure of Patriotism (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2019).
[2]] Patriotism: The Textbook for the Japanese Nation (Tokyo: Hyakuman’nen Shobō, 2019).
[3]] The Suppression of Speech: Mapping the Yanaihara Incident (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2014).
[4]] Visions of Peace: Asia and the West, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Vicki A. Spencer (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014; Oxford: Routledge, 2016).
[5]] The Birth of European Political Thought (Nagoya: University of Nagoya Press, 2013).
[6]] Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
[7]] Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition, 2010).
[8]] Political Diagnostics: An Introduction (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2006).
[9]] Against the Tyrant: An Intellectual History (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2002).
ARTICLES
[1]] ‘Rethinking Heresy as a Category of Analysis’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2020) online advance publication available: https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfaa039
[2]] ‘On the Elusiveness of Context’, History and Theory 55.2 (2016): 233-252.
[3]] ‘Dialogue, Eurocentrism and Comparative Political Theory: A View from Cross-Cultural Intellectual History’, Journal of the History of Ideas 77.2 (2016): 323-345.
[4]] ‘The Pressure of Coherence and the Diachronic Reconfigurations of Metaphorical Discourse: The Case of the Body Politic Metaphor in Medieval Political Texts’, Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3.1 (2016): 50-69.
[5]] ‘Censorship, Academic Factionalism, and University Autonomy in Wartime Japan: The Yanaihara Incident Reconsidered’, Journal of Japanese Studies 40.1(2014): 57-85.
[6]] ‘The “Armed Hand” of the Body Politic: Vegetius and a Military Dimension of Medieval Political Thought’, Storia del pensiero politico 2.3(2013): 407-424.
[7]] ‘The Best Medicine? Medical Education, Practice and Metaphor in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Metalogicon’, Viator 42 (2011): 55-74– co-authored with Cary J. Nederman; my contribution is 50%.
[8]] ‘European Ideas of Peace in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries’, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 7 (2010): 871-885.
[9]] ‘“Another” Patriotism in Early Shōwa Japan (1930-1945)’, Journal of the History of Ideas 71 (2010): 139-160 – reprinted in Critical Readings on Christianity in Japan, ed. Mark R. Mullins, 4 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), vol. 3.
[10]] ‘Treating the Body Politic: The Medical Metaphor of Political Rule in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan’, The Review of Politics 70 (2008): Special Issue on Comparative Political Theory: 77-104.
[11]] ‘“Head or Heart?” Revisited: Physiology and Political Thought in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,’ History of Political Thought 28 (2007): 208-229.
[12]] ‘Defending Christian Fellowship: William of Ockham and the Crisis of the Medieval Church, History of Political Thought 26 (2005): 607-624.
[13]] ‘William of Ockham on Christian Fellowship, Hōgaku Kenkyū 76 (2003): 321-341.
[14]] ‘Marsilius of Padua and Ogyu Sorai: Community and Language in the Political Discourse in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan’, The Review of Politics 64.3 (2002): 497-523.
[15]] ‘Yanaihara Tadao and the Ideal of Japan as the Pacifist State’, Shisō 938 (2002): 27-46.
[16]] ‘From Disobedience to Toleration: William of Ockham and the Medieval Discourse on Fraternal Correction’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52 (2001): 599-622.
[17]] ‘The Relationship between Theology and Canon Law: Another Context of Political Thought in the Early Fourteenth Century’, Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1999): 417-31.
[18]] ‘William of Ockham and Guido Terreni’, History of Political Thought 19 (1998): 517-30.
BOOK CHAPTERS
[1]] ‘Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis’, Democratic Moments: Reading Democratic Texts, ed. Xavier Márquez (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 49-56.
[2]] ‘Debating Japanese Patriotism in the Global Context: Alfred Ligneul and the Controversy on the Clash between Education and Religion’, Japanese Studies Down Under: History, Politics, Literature, and Art, eds. Nanyan Guo and Takashi Shogimen (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2018), pp. 129-136.
[3]] ‘William of Ockham and Medieval Discourses on Toleration’, in Toleration in Comparative Perspective, ed. Vicki A. Spencer (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. 3-21.
[4]] ‘William of Ockham’s Ecclesiology and Political Thought’, The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350), ed. Michael J. P. Robson (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 335-353.
[5]] ‘The French Missionary Ligneul and the Controversy on the Clash between Education and Religion’, Japanese Literature Cultivated by Christians ed. N. Guo (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2017), pp. 205-217.
[6]] ‘John of Paris and the Idea of Peace in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries’, John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power, ed. Chris Jones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 239-61.
[7]] ‘William of Ockham on Ecclesiastical Censorship’, Censorship Moments (Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought series), ed. Geoff Kemp (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 39-46.
[8]] ‘Patriotism and Republicanism in Japan: A Century Ago and Today’, Republicanism in Northeast Asian Context, eds. Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Leigh Jenco (London: Routledge, 2015), pp. 158-74.
[9]] ‘Ockham, Almain, and the Idea of Heresy’, Religion, Power and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card, eds. Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 153-68.
[10]] ‘Visions of Peace in Medieval European Political Thought’, Visions of Peace: Asia and the West, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Vicki A. Spencer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 103-118.
[11]] ‘Introduction’ (co-authored with Vicki A. Spencer), Visions of Peace: Asia and the West, ed. Shogimen and Spencer, pp. 1-9.
[12]] ‘Thomas Aquinas’, Sources of the History of Western Political Thought, eds. Osamu Kawasaki and Atsushi Sugita (Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2014), pp. 30-35.
[13]] ‘The Legacies of Uchimura Kanzō’s Patriotism: Tsukamoto Toraji and Yanaihara Tadao’, Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzō, eds. Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2013), pp. 93-112.
[14]] ‘Medicine and the Body Politic in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis’, A Companion to Marsilius of Padua, eds. Cary J. Nederman and Gerson Moreno-Riaño (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2012), pp. 71-115.
[15]] ‘Ockham’s Political Philosophy’, Islamic Philosophy and the Christian Middle Ages, vol. 2 Moral and Political Philosophy, eds. Masataka Takeshita and Shirō Yamauchi (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2012), pp. 91-113.
[16]] ‘William of Ockham’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (London: Sage, 2010), pp. 1424-1425.
[17]] ‘Wyclif’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (London: Sage, 2010), pp. 1433-1434.
[18]] ‘Wycliffism’, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (London: Sage, 2010), pp. 1434-1436.
[19]] ‘War and Peace in the Political Thought of Medieval Europe’, The Idea of Peace in the History of Political Thought, ed. Shin Chiba (Tokyo: Ohfu Publishing, 2009), pp. 23-45.
[20]] ‘Imagining the Body Politic: Metaphor and Political Language in Late Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan’, Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), pp. 279-300.
[21]] ‘William of Ockham and the Idea of Heresy in Medieval Europe’, The Crossroad of Political Thought and Intellectual History, eds. Seiichi Sumi and Shin Chiba (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2008), pp. 89-110.
[22]] ‘Wyclif’s Ecclesiology and Political Thought’, A Companion to John Wyclif, ed. Ian Christopher Levy (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006), pp. 199-240.
[23]] ‘William of Ockham and Conceptions of Heresy, c.1250-c.1350’, Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen and Cary Nederman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 59-70.
[24]] ‘Constitutionalism’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005) vol. 2, pp. 458-461.
[25]] ‘Heresy and Apostasy’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005) vol. 3, pp. 981-982.
[26]] ‘Liberty’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005) vol. 3, pp. 1272-1279.
[27]] ‘Leadership and the Public Sphere in the History of Political Thought’ Public Philosophy vol. 14: Leadership and the Public Sphere, eds. Yoshiaki Kobayashi and Kim Tae-Chang (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2004), pp. 1-34.
[28]] ‘Academic Controversy’, in G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 233-249.
[29]] ‘Ockham’s Vision of the Primitive Church’, The Church Retrospective: Studies in Church History 33, ed. R. N. Swanson (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1997): 163-75.
