현대 일본의 비평과 그 임계점 - 가라타니 고진 『마르크스 그 가능성의 중심』

Abstract

This paper reads Karatani Kojin's Marx, toward its center of possibility in the context of modern Japanese intellectual history. Through this, we argue that the book is a work located at the intersection of modern Japanese criticism and Marxism, and examine how modern Japanese self-identification of criticism repeats on the spot. First of all, Karatani's ciriticism can be defined as the work of inheriting the critical dialogue between Kobayashi Hideo and Maruyama Masao. It means that Karatani inherits the genealogy that has critically explored the self-identity of modern Japan while confronting Marxism. In addition, it is noteworthy that Marx, toward its center of possibility appeared in the early 1970s in the phase of New Left's bankruptcy. Karatani repeated the criticism through the process of self-destruction of the New Left, and at this time, he made Uno Kozo's reading of The Capital a key reference, which had a profound influence on the study of Marxian political economics in Japan. He actively re-read Uno economics, which was heresy from the perspective of the Marxist movement, and tried to internalize the ideological criticism of modern Japan by transferring Marx's texts not as ideologies but as criticism. In that sense, Marx, toward its center of possibility is at the critical point of criticism in modern Japanese intellectual history and can be evaluated as a classic that dictates its fundamental limitations.