From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 02:33:55 EDT
I don't think Karatani discusses Max Adler. To my knowledge the only substantial discussion in English of that neo Kantian is by Leszek Kolakowski in the second volume of his study of Marx. Transcritique : On Kant and Marx by Kojin Karatani # Publisher: MIT Press; (July 2003) # ISBN: 0262112744 Book Description 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 superceding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State. Synopsis Kojin Karatani's "Transcritique" introduces a different dimension to Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read 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 superceding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State.
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