Taguchi Takumi teaches at the faculty of letters in Chuo university. Takumi specialises in the literature and science of modern France, and pursues the ontology of human beings in “the nuclear age” which gave birth to “the geological time.” Takumi’s publications include Diderot Genkai no Shiko: Shosetsu ni Kansuru Shiron (Diderot and the Limits of Thinking: Essay on Literature) (Kazuma Shobo, 2009) and Kaibutsuteki Shiko, Kindai Shiso no Tenpukusha Diderot (Diderot, the One who Developed Monstrous Thinking by which Modern Thinking was Overturned) (Kodansha, 2016).