Nation and Aesthetics
On Kant and Freud
Nation and Aesthetics is a unique attempt to examine the ambiguous nature of nationalism and nation by examining them through aesthetics. In this translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H. Tsen, and Hiroki Yoshikuni, Karatani grasps the modern social formation as a nexus of three different modes of exchange, namely capital-nation-state. Nation here plays the role of complementing capitalism and the state. Benedict Anderson defined nation as an imagined community. Through rethinking Kant, Karatani suggests that imagination here is not a mere fancy, but very real, in the sense that it mediates state and capital. Usually imagination is regarded…
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Weitere Autoren: Abel, Jonathan E. (Übers.) / Yoshikuni, Hiroki (Übers.) / Tsen, Darwin H. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-062298-5
- EAN: 9780190622985
- Produktnummer: 29056135
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'220 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 b/w images
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Kojin Karatani is an internationally renowned literary theorist. Previously, he was a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, Kinki University in Osaka, and Columbia University. Among the dozens of books that he has written in Japanese, four have been translated into English: History and Repetition; Transcritique: Kant and Marx; Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money.
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