{"product_id":"marx-towards-the-centre-of-possibility-kojin-karatani-by-working-class-history-shop","title":"Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility – Kojin Karatani by Working Class History | Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFulfilled by our friends at Working Class History | Shop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US and UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassic study of Marx by Japan’s leading critical theorist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarx: Towards the Centre of Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and violence, with widespread political exhaustion for the competing sectarian visions of Marxism from 1968, Karatani’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elaid the groundwork for a new reading, unfamiliar to the existing Marxist discourse in Japan at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaratani’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes on insights from semiotics, deconstruction, and the reading of Marx as a literary thinker, treating\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas an intervention in philosophy that could be read as itself a theory of signs.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis unique in this sense, not only because of its importance in post-’68 Japanese thought, but also because the heterodox reading of Marx that Karatani debuts in this text, centred on his theory of the value-form, will go on to form the basis of his globally influential work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003eAuthor: Kojin Karatani \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781788730587 \u003cbr\u003ePublished: 03\/2020\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePage count: 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"VYSN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42650420215902,"sku":"carro-15650506","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/6555\/6830\/files\/Marxcentreofpossibility.jpg?v=1776283636","url":"https:\/\/impossible-girls-2.myshopify.com\/products\/marx-towards-the-centre-of-possibility-kojin-karatani-by-working-class-history-shop","provider":"Impossible girl's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}