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.
With this as his own critical model, he then presents a reading of Marx that attempts to liberate Marxism from longstanding Marxist and socialist presuppositions in order to locate a solid theoretical basis for a positive activism capable of gradually superseding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State..
Karatani reads Kant as a philosopher who sought to wrest metaphysics from the discredited realm of theoretical dogma in order to restore it to its proper place in the sphere of ethics and praxis.
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.
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
