Report: Political Philosophy "The Method unto Death: Cogito on Hideo Kobayashi"
1 May, 2008
KIM Hang
The second meeting of public joint research "Political Philosophy" was held on April 11. The speaker was Prof. Kim Hang, the former UTCP fellow. He is currently Research Professor at the Institute of Korean Culture, Korea University.
His talk, "The Method unto Death," was part of his dissertation The Genealogy of Security: Imperial Japan between Life and Death submitted to Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. Prof. Kim examined Hideo Kobayashi's thought from the 1930s to the Second World War in relation to situations at that time, in particular, to the Second World War.
