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Author Karatani, Kōjin, 1941-

Title History and repetition / Kojin Karatani ; Edited by Seiji M. Lippit.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Weatherhead books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: on repetition, singularity, and historicity -- Seiji M. Lippit -- Introduction: on the eighteenth brumaire of Louis Bonaparte -- History and repetition in Japan -- The discursive space of modern Japan -- The allegory of Oe Kenzaburo: football in the year man'en 1 -- The landscape of Murakami Haruki: pinball in the year 1973 -- Translated by Hisayo Suzuki -- The end of the modern novel -- Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs -- Buddhism and Fascism.
Summary Kojin Karatani, one of Japan's most influential thinkers, wrote the essays collected in History and Repetition during a period of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War order and the death of the Sh?wa emperor in 1989. Through an original reading of Marx, 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 theoretical analysis of political, economic, and literary forms of representation-joined by a detailed, empirical study of Japan's modern history-th.
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Subject Historiography.
Historiography.
Japan -- History -- 1868- -- Historiography.
Japan.
Chronological Term 1868-
Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
History.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Chronological Term Since 1868
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Lippit, Seiji M.
Added Title Rekishi to hanpuku. English
Other Form: Print version: 9780231157285 0231157282 (DLC) 2011012631
ISBN 0231528655 (electronic book)
9780231528658 (electronic book)
9780231157285 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231157282 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231157292 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0231157290 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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