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Nation and Aesthetics - On Kant and Freud (Hardcover)
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Nation and Aesthetics - On Kant and Freud (Hardcover)
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Nation and Aesthetics is a unique attempt to examine the ambiguous
nature of nationalism and nation by examining them through
aesthetics. In this translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H.
Tsen, and Hiroki Yoshikuni, Karatani grasps the modern social
formation as a nexus of three different "modes of exchange", namely
capital-nation-state. Nation here plays the role of complementing
capitalism and the state. Benedict Anderson defined nation as an
"imagined community". Through rethinking Kant, Karatani suggests
that "imagination" here is not a mere fancy, but very real, in the
sense that it mediates state and capital. Usually imagination is
regarded as fancying what is not present here. Kant grasped
imagination as a faculty to imagine what we can understand but
cannot sense; that is, to say, a faculty to mediate reason and
sensibility. This observation provided the foundation to Modern
aesthetics, which in the course of time became an important source
of nationalism. In Italy, Germany, and Japan, nationalism appeared
as fascism. They found in aesthetics a moment to go beyond
capitalism and the state. The key to go beyond nation, Karatani
argues, lies also in the thoughts of Kant, a cosmopolitan and an
advocate of a world republic. It is well-known that the League of
Nations was formed after First World War under the influence of his
"Perpetual Peace". Karatani draws attention to the overlooked fact
that around the same time Freud made a radical revision of his
notion of the "superego". Karatani introduces article nine of
Japan's postwar constitution, which renounces the right to wage
war, as a crystallization of Kant's ideal of peace and Freud's
superego. By providing a unique explanation of, and ways to
counter, current nationalistic and imperialistic tendencies, Nation
and Aesthetics argues that theories of Kant and Freud, which are
usually understood to contrast, are deeply linked and suggest ways
to go beyond capital-nation-state.
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