Transcritique on Kant and Marx / Kojin Karatani ; translated by Sabu Kohso.
2003
JC181.K3 K37 2003eb
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Title
Transcritique on Kant and Marx / Kojin Karatani ; translated by Sabu Kohso.
Author
Karatani, Kōjin, 1941-
Uniform Title
Toransukuritīku. English
ISBN
9780262276726 (electronic bk.)
0262276720 (electronic bk.)
0585481725 (electronic bk.)
9780585481722 (electronic bk.)
0262276720 (electronic bk.)
0585481725 (electronic bk.)
9780585481722 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages)
Call Number
JC181.K3 K37 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
320/.01
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 theoretical dogma in order to restore it to its proper place in the sphere of ethics and praxis. With this as his own critical model, he then presents a reading of Marx that attempts to liberate Marxism from longstanding Marxist and socialist presuppositions in order to locate a solid theoretical basis for a positive activism capable of gradually superseding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State.
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