Publications

Below is a list of my most recent publications, some of them available online. In time, I plan to upload everything here. 

Books

  • 2020 Asian Philosophical Texts: Exploring Hidden Sources, Milan: Mimesis International. Co-edited with Takeshi Morisato (Mar. 2020)
  • 2010 日本語を勉強しよう! Manual de limba japoneză pentru anul I, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press (359 pages). Co-authored with Ruxandra Raianu and Eri Utsunomiya

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Book manuscript

  • Nature, Self and Language: the Philosophy of Andō Shōeki (provisional title)

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Book chapters and peer-reviewed articles

  • 2020 “The Self-with-others and environmental ethics”, M. Kirloskar-Steinbach & M. Diaconu (eds.), Environmental Ethics: Cross-cultural Explorations, Verlag Karl Alber (Mar. 2020), 101-114
  • 2019 “‘Flowers Wear the Dress of Raindrops’: Reading, Writing and Experiencing Nature”, I. Holca & C. Săpunaru Tămaş (eds.), Japan in the World, The World in Japan. A Methodological Approach II, Bucharest: Pro Universitaria (Oct. 2019), 145-169
  • 2018 “From Descartes and Hegel to Andō Shōeki and Nishida Kitarō: Philosophy in Japanese Textbooks for Civil Servants (Part 2)”, Bulletin of the Research Institute for Japanese Studies at Kanda University of International Studies, Vol. 10 (Mar. 2018), 118-106
  • 2017 “Beyond Ecology and Utopia: Reframing Andō Shōeki’s Philosophy”, L. Bălan & M. Zlotea (eds), A Festschrift for Florentina Vişan, University of Bucharest Press (Dec. 2017), 313-327
  • 2017 “The Dialectic of Multiple Modernities in Japan”, New Ideas in East Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh (Dec. 2017), 23-30
  • 2017 “Andō Shōeki: Parabola păsărilor”, European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, No. 2, Chisokudō Publications (Oct. 2017), 263-294
  • 2017 “Volume on Shintō as Private Law: Andō Shōeki on Shintō – Fragments from Shihō shinsho no maki”, Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, Volume 71, Issue 2, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (May 2017), 527-543
  • 2017 “Dealing with Identity Slippage: A Few Considerations based on Life Story Interviews With a Non-native Japanese Language Teacher”, Journal of Kanda University of International Studies, Vol. 29 (Mar. 2017), 279-295
  • 2017 “From Descartes and Hegel to Andō Shōeki and Nishida Kitarō: Philosophy in Japanese Textbooks for Civil Servants (Part 1)”, Bulletin of the Research Institute for Japanese Studies at Kanda University of International Studies, Vol. 9 (Mar. 2017), 266-252
  • 2016 “Homo Naturalis – Andō Shōeki’s Understanding of the Human Being”, Morisato T., ed. Critical Perspectives on Japanese Philosophy, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture & Chisokudō Publications (Nov. 2016), 78-99
  • 2016 “Modernity as Continuity: The Samurai and the Merchants in Post-historical Tokugawa Japan”, The Bulletin of the Research Institute for Japanese Studies at Kanda University of International Studies, Vol. 8 (Mar. 2016), 130-119

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Reviews

  • 2018 飯野令子著『日本語教師の成長ーライフストーリーからみる教育実践の立場の変化』,「早 稲田日本語教育学」25号 (Dec. 2018)
  • 2018 Callicott, J. Baird; McRae, James; eds., Japanese Environmental Philosophy. H-Japan, H-Net Reviews. March, 2018. (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=50527)
  • 2017 山崎庸男『安藤昌益の実像:近代的視点を超えて』, European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, No. 2, Chisokudō Publications (Oct. 2017), 323-326
  • 2015 「質的研究 文献案内」, 舘岡洋子(編)『日本語教育のための質的研究入門』ココ出版 (Oct. 2015), 369-377

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Translations

  • 2015 Kōbō Abe, Fantoma e aici (Yūrei wa koko ni iru), Sibiu: “Radu Stanca” Theater (with Irina Holca)
  • 2014 Kenzaburō Ōe, 17 (Sebuntīn), Bucharest: Polirom Publishing House
  • 2014 Kenzaburō Ōe, J. Fiinţa sexuală (Seiteki ningen), Bucharest: Polirom Publishing House
  • 2010 Oriza Hirata, Însemnări din Tokyo (Tōkyō Nōto), Seinendan tour in Romania
  • 2010 Kenzaburō Ōe, Strigătul înăbuşit (Man’en gannen no futtobōru), Bucharest: RAO Publishing House
  • 2010 Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist, Netocraţia (Netocracy), Bucharest: Publica Publishing House
  • 2008 Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Pînă la lăsarea serii (Yūgure made), Bucharest: Trei Publishing House
  • 2007 Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Club Gourmet (Bishoku kurabu), Bucharest: Nemira Publishing House
  • 2007 Mari Akasaka, Vanilie (Vaniyu), Bucharest: Nemira Publishing House
  • 2007 Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Labirintul destinului (Manji), Bucharest: Trei Publishing House
  • 2006 Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Un bărbat, o pisică şi două femei (Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna), Bucharest: Nemira Publishing House
  • 2006 Banana Yoshimoto, NP (NP), Bucharest: RAO Publishing House
  • 2006 Kerri Sakamoto, Cîmpul electric (The Electrical Field), Bucharest: Nemira Publishing House
  • 2005 Mari Akasaka, Vibrator (Vaiburētā), Bucharest: Nemira Publishing House
  • 2004 Kenzaburō Ōe, O experienţă personală (Kojintekina taiken), Bucharest: RAO Publishing House
  • 2004 Sei Shōnagon, Însemnări de căpătîi (Makura no sōshi) (second edition, revised), Bucharest: RAO Publishing House