that creates types or forms. In response to the growing labour movements in Japan during the late 1920s, Miki published three successive books on the subject of Marxism: Modern Consciousness and the Materialist View of History (1928), Preliminary Idea of Social Science (1929), and Idealist Theory of Form (1931). During this time Miki made efforts to distinguish his own philosophy from Marxism, especially following his arrest in 1930, and remained critical of Marxism as a political ideology. He had been, for a time, a member of the Proletariat Science Research Institute [プロレタリア科学研究所] prior to his expulsion. Miki would however not broach Marxism again in his later works. Kenn Nakata Steffensen suggests that to consider Miki's work as either fascist or Marxist is incorrect, stating that it stands in critique of liberalism, Marxism, nationalism and idealism. Miki developed a reading of Heidegger's early philosophy as essentially being in the tradition of Christian individualism, reaching back to Saint Augustine and being fundamentally anti-Greek in character. As such, his reading of Heidegger falls with the broad class as Jean-Paul Sartre, in that it ignores the priority Heidegger gives to the ontological question of Being, in favor of seeing Heidegger's philosophy as an analysis of human existence. The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was influential in his intellectual development. List of works Monographs Study of the Human Being in Pascal [パスカルにおける人間の研究] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten [岩波書店], 1926). Ch. 1 - The Analysis of the Human Being [人間の分析] Ch. 2 - The Wager [賭] Ch. 3 - Discourse on the Passion of Love [愛の情念に関する説] Ch. 4 - The Three Orders [三つの秩序] Ch. 5 - Method [方法] Ch. 6 - The Religious Interpretation of Life [宗教における生の解釈] Modern Consciousness and the Materialist View of History [唯物史観と現代の意識] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten [岩波書店], 1928). Ch. 1 - The Marxian Form of Anthropology [人間学のマルクス的形態] Ch. 2 - Marxism and Materialism [マルクス主義と唯物論] Ch. 3 - The Philosophies of Pragmatism and Marxism [プラグマチズムとマルキシズムの哲学] Ch. 4 - Hegel and Marx [ヘーゲルとマルクス] Preliminary Idea of Social Science [社会科学の予備概念] (Tokyo: Tettō Sho’in [鉄塔書院], 1929). Ch. 1 - The Structure of Inquiry [問の構造] Ch. 2 - The Basic Idea of Hermeneutical Phenomenology [解釈学的現象学の基礎概念] Ch. 3 - The Task of Scientific Critique [科学批判の課題] Ch. 4 - Theory, History, Policy [理論歴史政策] Ch. 5 - Organicism and Dialectic [有機体説と弁証法] Ch. 6 - Materialism and Its Actual Form [唯物論とその現実形態] Problems of the Idealist Philosophy of History [史的観念論の諸問題] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten [岩波書店],