Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy by Kōjin Karatani

• Authors: Morgan Jason
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a review of the book: Kōjin Karatani, Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy, trans. Joseph A. Murphy (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2017). According to the author, Karatani’s book is an attempt to refound the West in a Marxist version of ancient Greek history and philosophy.

Keywords

EN

Kōjin Karatani; isonomia; philosophy; Marxism

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 901-914

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Morgan Jason

• Reitaku University, Chiba, Japan

References

• Brennan, Jason. When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019.
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• https://web.archive.org/web/20070416092300/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=9899. Accessed July 18, 2019.
• Karatani, Kōjin. Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy. Translated by Joseph A. Murphy. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Karatani, Kōjin. The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange. Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2014.
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Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066

ISSN

2577-0314

DOI

10.26385/SG.080438