Kohei Saito

Kohei Saito
斎藤 幸平
Saito at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2024
Born (1987-01-31) January 31, 1987
Education
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo (withdrawal)
Wesleyan University (BA)
Free University of Berlin (MA)
Humboldt University of Berlin (PhD)
ThesisNatur gegen Kapital (Nature versus Capital)
Philosophical work
EraContemporary
RegionJapanese philosophy
SchoolContinental, Marxism
InstitutionsOsaka City University
University of Tokyo
Main interests
Notable worksKarl Marx's Ecosocialism (2017), Capital in the Anthropocene (2020)

Kohei Saito (斎藤 幸平, Saitō Kōhei) (born January 31, 1987) is a Japanese philosopher. He is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Saito works on ecology and political economy from a Marxist perspective. His 2020 book Capital in the Anthropocene has been credited for inspiring a resurgence of interest in Marxist thought in Japan.