Marx : towards the centre of possibility / Kojin Karatani ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Gavin Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karatani, Kōjin, 1941- author.

Contributor:

Walker, G. (Gavin), editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Marukusu sono kanōsei no chūshin. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Marxian economics.

Communism and literature.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 118 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been amongst his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and violence, with widespread political exhaustion for the competing sectarian visions of Marxism from 1968, Karatani's Marx laid the groundwork for a new reading, unfamiliar to the existing Marxist discourse in Japan at the time. Karatani's Marx takes on insights from semiotics, deconstruction, and the reading of Marx as a literary thinker, treating Capital as an intervention in philosophy that could be read as itself a theory of signs. Marx is unique in this sense, not only because of its importance in post-68 Japanese thought, but also because the heterodox reading of Marx that Karatani debuts in this text, centered on his theory of the value-form, will go on to form the basis of his globally-influential work"-- Provided by publisher.

"Originally publish in Japanese as Marukusu sono Kanōsei no chūshin, 1974" -- title page verso.

Transleted from the Japanese.

ISBN:

9781788730587

1788730585

9781788737791

1788737792

OCLC:

1105147728