Kei Hiruta

AIAS-COFUND Fellow, Assistant Professor

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
building 1630, 104
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
kei.hiruta@aias.au.dk
Phone: +4587153753

Kei Hiruta is Assistant Professor and AIAS-COFUND Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. He is the author of Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity (Princeton University Press, 2021) and editor of Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He received his DPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford and was previously a EURIAS Junior Fellow at l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris (2018–19), Research Fellow (2016–2019) and Junior Research Fellow (2013–16) at Wolfson College, Oxford, and Global Ethics Fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City (2011–15). He has also been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Bard College, and the University of Tokyo, served as Associate Editor (2012–18) of the Journal of Practical Ethics, and is a co-founder and Associate Editor of Arendt Studies.

Selected publications

Published
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity
Hiruta, K., Nov 2021, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 288 p.
Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
Published
Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution
Hiruta, K. (ed.), 2019, Palgrave Macmillan. 302 p. (Philosophers in Depth).
Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
Published
Value Pluralism, Realism and Pessimism
Hiruta, K., Nov 2020, In: Res Publica. 26, 4, p. 523-540 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Published
Hannah Arendt, liberalism, and freedom from politics
Hiruta, K., 7 Mar 2019, Arendt on freedom, liberation, and revolution. Hiruta, K. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 17-45 29 p. (Philosophers in Depth).
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
An 'anti-utopian age?': Isaiah Berlin's England, Hannah Arendt's America, and utopian thinking in dark times
Hiruta, K., 2017, In: Journal of Political Ideologies. 22, 1, p. 12-29 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review