Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Courage to Be Disliked | 2013 | Buy |
| The Courage to Be Happy | 2016 | Buy |
Ichiro Kishimi is a Japanese philosopher born in Kyoto in 1956. He holds an M.A. in philosophy from Kyoto University, where he specialized in Classical Western philosophy and Platonic thought. Since 1989, he has worked as a certified counselor and consultant for the Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology, where he serves as Director. He has taught philosophy and ancient Greek at Kyoto University of Education and Nara Women’s University.
His two English-language books were co-written with Fumitake Koga, a professional writer who studied with Kishimi in Kyoto. Kishimi provided the philosophical and psychological substance, while Koga shaped their conversations into the Socratic dialogue format used in both books. The pair’s collaboration came about after Koga encountered Adlerian psychology and sought out Kishimi as a teacher. Both books were originally published in Japanese — The Courage to Be Disliked in 2013 and The Courage to Be Happy in 2016 — with English translations following in 2018 and 2019 through Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.