Kojin Karatani

Kōjin Karatani (Japanese柄 谷 行人, Karatani Kōjin; born August 16, 1941 in Amagasaki ) is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic.

Karatani studied at the University of Tokyo economics and English literature. He then taught at Hosei University in Tokyo and worked as a literary critic. For an essay on Natsume Soseki, he received the 1969 Young Investigator Award Gunzo. In 1975 he was a visiting professor at Yale University, where he among other things, met with Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson. Since 1990 he has been a professor at Columbia University.

In 1980 he published in English Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. With headings like Architecture as Metaphor: language, number, money and Transcritique: on Kant and Marx, he then turned to more literary theory questions. With Akira Asada he gave out to 2002, the quarterly magazine Critical Space.

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