Kōjin Karatani

Kōjin Karatani's books connect philosophy, economics, history, literature, and social organization through comparative criticism. Transcritique places Kant and Marx in a shared field, using each to reopen questions of value, exchange, and critique. The Structure of World History expands accounts centered on production by examining modes of exchange and the relations among different social forms.

Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy studies equality and rule through ancient thought. History and Repetition asks how earlier structures return without simply reproducing the past, while Architecture as Metaphor turns toward the systems created by language, number, and money. Across these works, comparison does not erase difference. It exposes the conceptual passages between disciplines and shows how an argument changes when read from another intellectual position.