{"id":2700,"date":"2025-04-01T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:53:25","slug":"adachi-tsuyoshi-associate-professor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/faculty-en\/2025\/04\/01\/2700\/","title":{"rendered":"HIRUTA Kei, Associate Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/keihiruta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100004395_en.html#item_syllabus_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Courses Offered<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100004395_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers Database<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2692 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kei-Hiruta_thumbnail-610x454.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kei-Hiruta_thumbnail-610x454.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kei-Hiruta_thumbnail-940x699.png 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kei-Hiruta_thumbnail-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kei-Hiruta_thumbnail-1536x1143.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kei-Hiruta_thumbnail.png 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Comparative Political Theory<\/p>\n<h3>Academic Degrees<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>DPhil, University of Oxford, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Short Bio<\/h3>\n<p>I am a political theorist working at the intersection of normative philosophy and intellectual history. My primary area of research is liberty\/freedom and its related concepts, including oppression, domination, power, agency, citizenship and nationality. I seek to do political theory imaginatively and creatively, combining different methods and approaches beyond the conventional sub-disciplinary divides.<br \/>\nMy publications include Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity (Princeton University Press, 2011), Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and \u2018Fukuzawa Yukichi\u2019s Liberal Nationalism\u2019, American Political Science Review (2023).<br \/>\nPrior to joining Waseda University in 2025, I worked at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2022-25), Aarhus University (2019-22), I\u2019Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes avanc\u00e9es de Paris (2018-19), University of Oxford (2012-18), and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (2008-15). I also held visiting positions at Columbia University (2010-11), University of Tokyo (2012), and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College (2017).<br \/>\nI lead the Comparative Political Theory Project at Waseda University with a special interest in the development of liberal (and ostensibly \u2018Western\u2019 or \u2018originally Western\u2019) ideas in Japan and East Asia. I welcome applications from prospective postgraduate students who want to work on issues in Comparative Political Theory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fpse\/pse\/en\/about\/faculty\/\">Back to the List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Website Courses Offered Researchers Database Research Interests Political Theory, Political Philosoph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en","research_field-political_thought-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}