Transcritique: On Kant and Marx

by Kōjin Karatani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262612070
• ISBN13: 9780262612074
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher