Transcritique on Kant and Marx / Kojin Karatani ; translated by Sabu Kohso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karatani, Kōjin, 1941- author.

Standardized Title:

Toransukuritīku. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Political science.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262276726

0262276720

0585481725

9780585481722

OCLC:

53889024

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