Transcritique
On Kant and Marx
$70.86
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2005
Summary
Kojin Karatani’s Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant’s transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant. In a direct challenge to standard academic approaches to both thinkers, Karatani’s transcritical readings discover the ethical roots of socialism in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and a Kantian critique of money in Marx’s Capital.Karatani reads Kant as a philosopher who sought to wrest metaphysics from the discredited realm of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262612074 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262612070 |
| Author: | Kojin Karatani, Sabu Kohso |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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“An immensely ambitious theoretical edifice in which new relations between Kant and Marx are established, as well as a new kind of synthesis between Marxism and anarchism. The book is timely from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and stands up well against a tradition of Marx exegesis that runs from Rosdolsky and Korsch to Althusser and Tony Smith.” - Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”
About The Author
Kojin Karatani
Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher who teaches at Kinki University, Osaka, and Columbia University. He is the author of Architecture as Metaphor (MIT Press, 1995) and Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. He founded the New Associationist Movement (NAM) in Japan in 2000.
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