The structure of world history : from modes of production to modes of exchange
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The structure of world history : from modes of production to modes of exchange
Duke University Press, 2014
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- : pbk
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Sekaishi no kōzō
世界史の構造
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-344) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In The Structure of World History, he traces different modes of exchange, including the pooling of resources that characterizes nomadic tribes, the gift exchange systems developed after the adoption of fixed-settlement agriculture, the exchange of obedience for protection that arises with the emergence of the state, the commodity exchanges that characterize capitalism, and, finally, a future mode of exchange based on the return of gift exchange, albeit modified for the contemporary moment. He argues that this final stage-marking the overcoming of capital, nation, and state-is best understood in light of Kant's writings on eternal peace. The Structure of World History is in many ways the capstone of Karatani's brilliant career, yet it also signals new directions in his thought.
Table of Contents
Translator's Note vii
Author's Preface to the English Translation ix
Preface xiii
Introduction. On Modes of Exchange 1
Part I. Mini World Systems 29
1. The Sedentary Revolution 35
2. The Gift and Magic 50
Part II. World-Empire 57
3. The State 63
4. World Money 81
5. World Empires 104
6. Universal Religions 127
Part III. The Modern World System 157
7. The Modern State 165
8. Industrial Capital 182
9. Nation 209
10. Associationism 228
Part IV. The Present and the Future 265
11. The Stages of Global Capitalism and Repetition 267
12. Toward a World Republic 285
Acknowledgments 309
Notes 311
Bibliography 339
Index
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