Ichiro Kishimi

Japanese · b. 1956

Ichiro Kishimi spent decades translating Alfred Adler and Plato in Kyoto before staging them together: The Courage to Be Disliked, written with Fumitake Koga as five nights of Socratic combat, sold millions across Asia by arguing your past determines nothing. He practices what he publishes — a philosopher taking counseling clients in the classical style.