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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Nation and Aesthetics shows curious connections between nationalism and aesthetics through examining various fields such as art, language, and religion. This connection is not accidental, but inherent. Nation connects capitalism and the state, thus creating the problematic modern social formation of capital-nation-state. Zusammenfassung Nation and Aesthetics shows curious connections between nationalism and aesthetics through examining various fields such as art, language, and religion. This connection is not accidental, but inherent. Nation connects capitalism and the state, thus creating the problematic modern social formation of capital-nation-state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Jonathan E. Abel's Preface: One Karatani, Indivisible Hiroki Yoshikuni's Introduction: Exchange and Gift Note on the Text Preface to English Edition (2015) 1) Empire and Nation: an Introduction 2) Transcritique on Kant and Freud 3) History as Museum: Okakura Kakuzo and Ernest Fenollosa 4) The Utility of Aesthetics: After Orientalism 5) Nation-State and Linguistics 6) Geopolitics of the Character: Japan-Psycho-Analysis Afterword
