Kojin Karatani's History and Repetition

A Classic of Modern Japanese Thought Now Available in English   History and Repetition  Kojin Karatani  edited by Seiji M. Lippit Order Your Copy Now and Save 30%! We'd like to offer you 30% off orders of History and Repetition. To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code HISKA in the "Redeem Coupon" field at check out. Click on the "redeem coupon" button and your savings will be calculated. Read the Table of Contents Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War and the death of the Shōwa emperor in 1989. Karatani developed a theory of history based on the repetitive cycle of crises attending the expansion and transformation of capital. His work led to a rigorous analysis of political, economic, and literary forms of representation that recast historical events as a series of repeated forms forged in the transitional moments of global capitalism. History and Repetition cemented Karatani's reputation as one of Japan's premier thinkers, capable of traversing the fields of philosophy, political economy, history, and literature in his work. The first complete translation of History and Repetition into English, undertaken with the cooperation of Karatani himself, this volume opens with his innovative reading of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, tracing Marx's early theoretical formulation of the state. Karatani follows with a study of violent crises as they recur after major transitions of power, developing his theory of historical repetition and introducing a groundbreaking interpretation of fascism (in both Europe and Japan) as the spectral return of the absolutist monarch in the midst of a crisis of representative democracy. For Karatani, fascism represents the most violent materialization of the repetitive mechanism of history. Yet he also seeks out singularities that operate outside the brutal inevitability of historical repetition, whether represented in literature or, more precisely, in the process of literature's demise. Closely reading the works of Ōe Kenzaburō, Mishima Yukio, Nakagami Kenji, and Murakami Haruki, Karatani compares the recurrent and universal with the singular and unrepeatable, while advancing a compelling theory of the decline of modern literature. Merging theoretical arguments with a concrete analysis of cultural and intellectual history, Karatani's essays encapsulate a brilliant, multidisciplinary perspective on world history.      ORDER THE BOOK      $27.50 $19.25 (with discount code HISKA)  / £19.00  paper  272 pages For more titles in: Asian History  Asian Literature  Literary Criticism and Theory  Political Philosophy  FOLLOW Columbia University Press:

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