Nation and Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud

by Kōjin Karatani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190622970
• ISBN13: 9780190622978
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"