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is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic.〔"Kojin Karatani at Stanford:Beyond the Trinity of Capital, Nation, and State A Special Series of Events with Japan's Leading Philosopher and Literary Critic at Stanford University, October 8-October 11, 2007". ''Department of Asian Languages''. ''Stanford University''. 2007. Retrieved 21 Mar. 2009. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/asianlang/cgi-bin/?q=karatani〕 ==Biography== Karatani was educated at University of Tokyo, where he received a BA in economics and an MA in English literature. The Gunzō Literary Prize, which he received at the age of 27 for an essay on Natsume Sōseki, was his first critical acclaim as a literary critic. While teaching at Hosei University, Tokyo, he wrote extensively about modernity and postmodernity with a particular focus on language, number, and money, concepts that form the subtitle of one of his central books: ''Architecture as Metaphor''. In 1975, he was invited to Yale University to teach Japanese literature as a visiting professor, where he met Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson and began to work on formalism. Starting from a study of Natsume Sōseki, the variety of the subjects examined by Karatani became so wide that he earned the nickname ''The Thinking Machine''. Karatani collaborated with novelist Kenji Nakagami, to whom he introduced the works of Faulkner. With Nakagami, he published ''Kobayashi Hideo o koete'' (''Overcoming Kobayashi Hideo''). The title is an ironic reference to “Kindai no chokoku” (''Overcoming Modernity''), a symposium held in the summer of 1942 at Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University) at which Hideo Kobayashi (whom Karatani and Nakagami did not hold in great esteem) was a participant. He was also a regular member of ANY, the international architects' conference that was held annually for the last decade of the 20th century and that also published an architectural/philosophical series with Rizzoli under the general heading of ''Anyone''. Since 1990, Karatani has been regularly teaching at Columbia University as a visiting professor. Karatani founded the New Associationist Movement (NAM) in Japan in the summer of 2000.〔Harootunian, Harry. "Out of Japan: The New Associationist Movement". ''Radical Philosophy''. Issue 108 (July/August 2001). Retrieved 21 Mar. 2009. http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=9899〕 NAM was conceived as a counter–capitalist/nation-state association, inspired by the experiment of LETS (Local Exchange Trading Systems, based on non-marketed currency). He was also the co-editor, with Akira Asada, of the Japanese quarterly journal, ''Hihyōkūkan'' (''Critical Space''), until it ended in 2002. In 2006, Karatani retired from the chair of the International Center for Human Sciences at Kinki University, Osaka, where he had been teaching. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kojin Karatani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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