教員紹介

教員紹介

学歴/Education

Ph.D. The University of Pittsburgh

経歴/Appointment

國立臺灣大學政治學系 訪問學者/Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan University, The Department of Political Science
早稲田大学 日本学術振興会PD/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Waseda University
東京大学教養学部 講師/Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo, The College of Arts and Sciences

研究テーマ/Research Theme

I’m a historian of political thought with a regional focus on modern East Asia as well as a political theorist interested in the relationship between politics and language/rhetoric. My research primarily concerns modernity’s internal contradiction, equalizing while differentiating people, capital, time, and space. I’m currently working on my first book project, tentatively titled, Modernity’s Disquiet: Order and Crisis in History of Modern Japanese Political Thought. In this book, I examine how modern Japan’s (1868-) intellectual discourse has been “overdetermined” within this contradiction. The existing scholarship tends to access modern Japanese political thought according to the so-called Western liberal thought. This tendency derives from their scholarly assumption that Japan is a closed political unit and a latecomer to modernity. On the contrary, I read Japan’s modern political thought as a distinctive response to the global and contemporaneous issue of modernity. Thus, the book asks how the overdetermination of contradictory elements in the relevant discourse of capitalism, colonialism, and nationalism triggered the constant awareness of the crisis in modern Japan’s socio-economic and political order among intellectuals. Such overdetermination appeared, for example, in modern Japan’s earlier settlement of its border by incorporating yet simultaneously differentiating the ingenious people from the mainlanders, her constitution’s incorporation of the archaic origin in its liberal appearance, her colonialist desire to assimilate other ethnicities into Japan’s allegedly monoethnic purity, capitalism’s invention of democratic bourgeois and simultaneous exclusion of others, etc. Through close textual reading, this book argues that the relevant intellectual discourse on Japan’s modern nation-state creation from its onset was overdetermined, thus leading to the awareness of the socio-economic and political crisis, which was also carried over in the postwar period.

In the second book project, Transpacific Idea in Practice: Pragmatism in Taiwan, U.S., China, and Japan in the Early 20th Century, titled provisionally, I will be working on how the idea of pragmatism in the early 20th century has been moved around transapically and practiced locally as resistance against modern capitalism and imperialism. The typical scholarly discourse has focused on the philosophical reception of pragmatism in each nation from America (for example, Japan’s postwar pragmatism brought by Tsurumi Shunsuke and Hu Shih’s pragmatism in China’s New Culture Movement), therefore, missed to see how pragmatism has historically responded to concrete socio-political issues in global contexts. Therefore, this book will examine the contemporaneous practice of pragmatism in the early 20th century across borders to consider how the idea of pragmatism laid the groundwork for the shared practice of resistance to modern imperialism and capitalism in different forms in each region.

業績/Publication

論文/Journal Article	Tomonori Teraoka. “Fragmented Legitimacy: The Rhetorical Construction of Constitutional Legitimacy in Postwar Japan.” Global Intellectual History 7 (2022): 346-372 doi:10.1080/23801883.2020.1855080.
	Tomonori Teraoka & Keren Wang. “Legitimation Crisis of the Japanese Constitution: Reflection on Japan’s Judicial Rhetoric and the Post WWII Constitutionalization Process.” Communication Law Review 20, no.1 (2020): 99-127.
	Tomonori Teraoka. “A Court as the Process of Signification: Legal Semiotics of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 30, no. 1 (2017): 115–127. doi: 10.1007/S11196-016-9484-7.
	Tomonori Teraoka. “Towards the New Democratic Accessibility: The Politics of Mis- Communication and Democracy 2.0.” Keio Communication Review 39 (2017): 55-72.
本の章/Book Chapter	Tomonori Teraoka, Keren Wang, Larry Backer, and Nabih Haddad, “Democratizing the Global Business and Human Rights Project by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation from the Bottom Up” in Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back. Edited by Karen E. Bravo and Jena Martin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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