Germaine A. Hoston

Biography

Germaine A. Hoston is an American and French political scientist, political theorist, and political theologian and professor at the University of California San Diego, specializing in comparative politics and political theory, East Asian and European continental political philosophy and theology, and the relationship between political history and the political and economic development of China and Japan. A notable scholar of East Asian and comparative political philosophy and theology, she is known for her multilingual scholarship at the intersection of political theory, nationalism, state formation, and reformist and revolutionary change in modern East Asia. Working on both Chinese and Japanese political thought, as well as continental political philosophy, Hoston published her first book, Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan (1986), remains the definitive English-language source on the Japanese capitalism debate (Nihon shihon-shugi ronsō) of the 1920s and 1930s.

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