Harry D. Harootunian

Professor Harry D. Harootunian is the Max Palevsky Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of Chicago and Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at New York University. He is also currently the Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He brought the study of Japanese intellectual history into dialogue with the concerns of scholars of modernity around the world and has writen on subjects as diverse as samurai activism, early modern nativism, and twentieth-century modernism. Professor Harootunian is the author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan and his most recent publication is Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capital (2015). His current research interests the repetition of fascism in Japan, questions relating to the status of the remnant and anachrony and philosophic discourse in prewar Japan.