The Structure of World History
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- Author: Kojin Karatani and Michael K. Bourdaghs
- ASIN: B00K3I14RC
- ISBN: 0822376687
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B00K3I14RC
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I would like to acknowledge the research assistance that I received from Scott Aalgaard in preparing this translation. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION This book is an attempt to rethink the history of social formations from the perspective — location: 288
that I received from Scott Aalgaard in preparing this translation. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION This book is an attempt to rethink the history of social formations from the perspective — location: 289
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while the political, religious, and cultural have been considered the ideological superstructure. In the way it splits the economic from the political, this view is grounded in capitalist — location: 293
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societies, viewing the state and nation as simply ideological — location: 296
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and political science. This, however, resulted in a tendency to underestimate the importance of the economic base. Many social scientists and historians rejected economic determinism and asserted the autonomy of other dimensions. Even as it led to — location: 301
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actuality, all around the world socialist movements that aimed to bring about mode of exchange D were generally carried out under the guise of universal religions. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, socialism became — location: 355
is religious; it is whether socialism intends mode of exchange D. Socialism in the twentieth century was only able to realize societies dominated by modes of exchange B and C, and as a result it lost its appeal. But so long as modes of exchange B and C remain dominant, the drive to transcend them will never disappear. In some form or another, mode of exchange D will emerge. Whether or not this takes religious form is unimportant. This drive is fundamentally rooted in that which has been repressed from nomadic society. It has persisted throughout world history, and will not disappear in the future—even if we are unable to predict the form in which it will appear. — location: 357
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April 20, 2012 PREFACE This book marks — location: 362
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was inherently limited. My own views often conflicted with theirs, and there were many domains and problems that they never considered. Accordingly, in taking up the problem of the structure of world history, I felt the need to construct my own theoretical system. I have always disliked systematic undertakings and was never particularly good at them. Nonetheless, I am now for the first time in my life venturing to construct a theoretical system. This is because the problem I am wrestling with here can only be explicated systematically. — location: 423
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itself. In plain language, without these illusions we would lapse into schizophrenia. — location: 457
For example, with regard to world history, Kant says that looking at developments up until now, we can regard — location: 458
UN system is already something more than a simple united nations. The situation is different in the first and second domains, because they are closely related to the state and capital. They have a determinative impact on today’s United Nations. In other words, modes of exchange B and C continue to determine today’s United Nations. If the same sort of characteristics found in the third domain were to be realized in the first and second domains, we would in effect have a new world system. But this will not simply happen as a kind of natural outgrowth of the expansion of world intercourse: it will no doubt face resistance from the state and capital. Transforming the United — location: 6157
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