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UNO Shigeki

Division Department of Comparative Contemporary Politics
Research Fields History of Political Thought, Political Philosophy
E-mail unoiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Homepage https://researchmap.jp/unoshigeki?lang=en

Teaching and Research Appointments

April 1999 −
March 2007		 Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
August 2000 −
July 2002		 Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), France
April 2007 −
March 2011		 Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
May 2010 −
March 2011		 Mori Hamada Distinguishe Visitor, Cornell Law School
April 2011 − Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2018 −
July 2018		 Visiting teacher, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
April 2020 − March 2022 Vice Director, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2024 − Director, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Topics of Research

1Democracy and Religion
2Conservatives and Liberals in Modern Japan
3Contemporary Political Philosophy in the Comparaive Perspective: America, France and Japan
4History of French Political Thought in 19th century

Selected Publications

  • “Aspects of French Liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville,” Kokkagakkaizasshi, Vol.107, No.5-6, 1994, pp.153-202. (in Japanese)
  • Living in the Age of Democracy: Tocqueville' s Re-discovery of the Political, Sobunsha, 1998. (in Japanese)
  • “Tocqueville and J.-S. Mill: An Essay on the Transformation of Liberalism in the 19th Century,” Hougakuronshu, Vol.13, No.3, Chiba University, 1999, pp.37-102. (in Japanese)
  • “Liberal-Communitarian Debate and its Consequences,” Hougakuronshu, Vol.14, No.2, Chiba University, 1999, pp.19-49. (in Japanese)
  • “A History of Political Thought on Representative Democracy,” The Journal of Social Science, Vol.52, No.3, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2001, pp.5-36. (in Japanese)
  • “Conservatism,” A. Fukuda and M. Taniguchi ed., Political Science of Democracy, University of Tokyo Press, 2002, pp.19-36. (in Japanese)
  • “Three Aspects of Subjectivity in the Thought od Maruyama Masao,” M. Kobayashi ed., Maruyama Masao, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2003, pp.40-74. (in Japanese)
  • For Political Philosophy: Dialogues with Contemporary French Political Philosophers, University of Tokyo Press, 2004. (in Japanese)
  • “La Modernisation politique au Japon et l'idée de subjectivité chez MARUYAMA Masao”, Ebisu--Études japonaise, 32 (Printemps-Été 2004), Maison Franco-Japonaise, 2004, pp.67-83. (in French)
  • “Re-integration of Liberalism and Republican Liberty,” Shiso, 965, 2004, pp.84-101. (in Japanese)
  • “European Integration as a Propblem of Political Philosophy,” T. Nakamura ed., New Horizon of the Study for European Union, Kyoto, Minerva Shobo, 2005, pp.247-279. (in Japanese)
  • “Les idées politiques du Japon de l'époque moderne”, Jean-Francois Sabouret (ed.), La Dynamique du Japon, Paris, Saint-Simon, 2005, pp.83-92. (in French)
  • “La redécouverte de Tocqueville et sa signification,” Revue de Philosophie Francaise, 11, Société franco-japonaise de philosophie, 2006, pp.40-48. (in Japanese)
  • “Transformation of Japanese Social Sciences in the 1990s,” The Journal of Social Science, Vol.58, No.1, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2006, pp.99-123. (in Japanese)
  • “The Reformation of Intermediate Groups and the Social : From the Perspective of Political Philosophy,” Y. Mizumachi ed., Individuals or Groups?: Changing Labor and Law, Keiso Shobo, 2006, pp.39-59. (in Japanese)
  • Tocqueville: A Theorist of Equqlity and Inequality, Kodansha, 2007. (in Japanese)
  • “A Political Philosophy of Social Ties: Focusing on the Thought of Tocqueville,” Y. Ogawa and S. Endo ed., Global Society of Dialogue, Akashi Shoten, 2007, pp.189-217. (in Japanese)
  • “To Speak of Hope in the Social Sciences,” Shigeki Uno ed. (with Y. Genda), Speaking of Hope: Towards a New Horizon in the Social Sciences, Social Sciences of Hope 1, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2009., pp.267-291. (in Japanese)
  • “Tomin Suzuki as a Mayor of Kamaishi,” Y. Genda and N. Nakamura ed., Reproducing Hope: What the History and Industry of Kamaishi Tell Us, Social Sciences of Hope 2, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2009., pp.267-291. (in Japanese)
  • “Tocqueville and the Renewal of Political Philosophy: Tocqueville on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” R. Matsumoto, N. Miura and S. Uno eds., Tocqueville and Democracy Today, University of Tokyo Press, 2009, 370-385.(in Japanese)
  • “Synergy and Offset of Liberty and Equality,” J. Saito ed., For the Mutual Recogniton of Socail Integration and Liberty, Iwanami Shoten, 2009, pp.51-74. (in Japanese)
  • “A Political Philosophy of Labor and Inequality,” The Journal of Social Science, Vol.62, No.3-4, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2010, pp.153-172. (in Japanese)
  • Democracy in the Age of Meism, 2010, Iwanamishinsho. (in Japanese)
  • “Tocqueville and Neo-Tocquevillian,” N. Miura ed., French Liberalsim in Debate, Keiso Shobo, 2010, pp.205-235. (in Japanese)
  • “When Politics starts to talk Social Ties,” S.Uno ed., Social Ties and Political Studies, Fukosha, 2010, pp.269-296. (in Japanese)
  • “Human Rights and Coservatism,” Y. Ichinokawa ed., Reconsidering Human Rughts, Horitsu Bunkasha, 2010, pp.158-176. (in Japanese)
  • “Politics and Knowledge in France: Republic of Science, School and Knowledge,” K. Tsutsui ed., Political Leadership and Culture, Chikura Shobo, 2011, pp. 233-249. (in Japanese)
  • In Defence of Democracy: A Response to Reflexive Modernization, with T. Tamura and N. Yamazaki, 2011, Nakanishiya Shuppan. (in Japanese)
  • “Education and Politics in the Age of Meism,” S. Uno, A. Inoue and N. Yamazaki eds., Political Philosophy in Practice, 2012, Nakanishiya Shuppan. (in Japanese)
  • “Liberal-Communitarian DebateRevisited,” The Journal of Social Science, Vol.64, No.2, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2013, pp.89-108. (in Japanese)
  • How to Make Democracy?, 2014, Chikumashobo. (in Japanese)
  • A History of Western Political Thought, 2014, Yuhikaku. (in Japanese)
  • “The Meaning of Legislation in the French Political Thought,” T. Iunoue ed., The Frontier of Legislation Studies, Nakanishiya Shoten, 2014, pp.219-240. (in Japanese)
  • “Pragmatism: Customs, Experiences and Democracy,” S. Uno ed., The Transformation of the Modernity, University of Tokyo Press, 2014, pp.177-199. (in Japanese)
  • “Re-Considering Local Governance,” S. Uno and K. Iokibe eds., Local Governance in Japan, Yûhikaku, 2015, pp.15-35. (in Japanese)
  • “The Birth of a New Model Governor?,” S. Uno and K. Iokibe eds., Local Governance in Japan, Yûhikaku, 2015, pp.197-215. (in Japanese)

Educational Activities

Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Reading Alexis de Tocqueville, De la démocratie en Amérique II
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