Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He received PhD in philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017) was awarded the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize of 2018, the most prestigious academic award for Marxian studies, making him the youngest recipient of that honor. The book has been published in 8 languages.
Saito’s “Capital” in the Anthropocene (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2020) opened up a pathbreaking interpretation of Marx’s theory of postcapitalism in the age of climate crisis, selling 500,000 copies in Japan. His introduction to Marx’s Capital that was utilized as a textbook for a TV program on the NHK network sold more than 100,000 copies to date.
Capital in the Anthropocene received "Best Asian Books of the Year" in the Asia Book Awards 2021
