近代日本におけるマルクス主義理論と歴史の政治学 The Sublime Perversion of Capital : Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan (Asia-pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Walker, Gavin

Duke University Press（2016/03発売）

Duke University Press（2016/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822361602
• DDC分類 952.033

Full Description

In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's culmination in the work of Uno Kōzō, whose investigations into the development of capitalism and the commodification of labor power are essential for rethinking the national question in Marxist theory. Walker's analysis of Uno and the Japanese debate strips Marxist historiography of its Eurocentric focus, showing how Marxist thought was globalized from the start. In analyzing the little-heralded tradition of Japanese Marxist theory alongside Marx himself, Walker not only offers new insights into the transition to capitalism, the rise of globalization, and the relation between capital and the formation of the nation-state; he provides new ways to break Marxist theory's impasse with postcolonial studies and critical theory.  

Contents

Acknowledgments  ix

Note on Translations  xiii

Three Orientations  xv

1. The Sublime Perversion of Capital   1

2. The Feudal Remnant and the Historical Outside  28

3. Primitive Accumulation, or the Logic of Origin  75

4. Labor Power: Capital's Threshold  108

5. The Continent of History and the Theoretical Inside  152

6. "The Ready-Made World of Capital"  182

Notes  195

Bibliography  225

Index  243