Transcritique On Kant and Marx

by Karatani, Kojin; Kohso, Sabu

• ISBN13: 9780262612074
• ISBN10: 0262612070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-14
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Kojin Karatani's Transcritiqueintroduces 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 Reasonand 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: What Is Transcritique?	1	(26)
I Kant	27	(104)
The Kantian Turn	29	(26)
The Copernican Turn	29	(6)
Literary Criticism and the Transcendental Critique	35	(9)
Parallax and the Thing-in-Itself	44	(11)
The Problematic of Synthetic Judgment	55	(26)
Mathematical Foundations	55	(10)
The Linguistic Turn	65	(11)
Transcendental Apperception	76	(5)
Transcritique	81	(50)
Subject and Its Topos	81	(11)
Transcendental and Transversal	92	(8)
Singularity and Sociality	100	(12)
Nature and Freedom	112	(19)
II Marx	131	(176)
Transposition and Critique	133	(52)
Transposition	133	(9)
The System of Representation: Darstellung and Vertretung	142	(10)
The Economic Crisis as a Parallax	152	(9)
The Micro Difference	161	(4)
Marx and Anarchists	165	(20)
The Crisis of Synthesis	185	(38)
The Form of Value qua Synthetic Judgment: Ex Ante Facto and Ex Post Facto	185	(8)
The Form of Value	193	(7)
Capital's Drive	200	(11)
Money and Its Theology, Its Metaphysics	211	(6)
Credit and Crisis	217	(6)
Value Form and Surplus Value	223	(42)
Value and Surplus Value	223	(5)
The Linguistic Approach	228	(6)
Merchant Capital and Industrial Capital	234	(7)
Surplus Value and Profit	241	(10)
The Global Nature of Capitalism	251	(14)
Toward Transcritical Counteractions	265	(42)
The State, Capital, and Nation	265	(18)
A Possible Communism	283	(24)
Notes	307	(42)
Index	349