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With support from the Japan Foundation

This English-language edition published by Verso 2020

Originally published in Japanese as Marukusu sono kanōsei no chūshin, 1974 © Kōjin Karatani 2020

Translation and Introduction © Gavin Walker 2020

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ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-058-7

ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-779-1 (LIBRARY)

ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-059-4 (UK EBK)

ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-060-0 (US EBK)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Karatani, Kōjin, 1941- author.

Title: Marx : towards the centre of possibility / Kojin Karatani.

Other titles: Marukusu sono kanōsei no chūshin. English

Description: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been amongst 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 Marx laid the groundwork for a new reading, unfamiliar to the existing Marxist discourse in Japan at the time. Karatani’s Marx takes on insights from semiotics, deconstruction, and the reading of Marx as a literary thinker, treating Capital as an intervention in philosophy that could be read as itself a theory of signs. Marx is 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, centered on his theory of the value-form, will go on to form the basis of his globally-influential work”– Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019044487 | ISBN 9781788730587 (paperback) | ISBN 9781788737791 (library binding) | ISBN 9781788730600 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Socialism. | Marxian economics. | Communism and literature. | Marx, Karl, 1818–1883.

Classification: LCC HX73 .K36413 2020 | DDC 335.4–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019044487

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