Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher and founder of the New Associationist Movement (NAM). His books in English include Origins of Modern Japanese Literature; Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money; and Transcritique: On Kant and Marx. Seiji M. Lippit is associate professor of modern Japanese literature and culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Topographies of Japanese Modernism and editor of The Essential Akutagawa.

[The essays] are not for beginners, but will intrigue, challenge, and inform students of modern Japanese intellectual history and cultural studies,.. Highly recommeded. Choice Karatani's intelligence is prodigious... His penetrating grasp of this world makes trenchant his concerns and makes them worthy of serious attention by all who think that modernity--as well as Japan's confrontation with and existence in it--deserves profound consideration. Journal of Asian Studies

• Author's Preface to the English Edition Introduction: On Repetition, Singularity, and Historicity, by Seiji M. Lippit 1. Introduction: On The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 2. History and Repetition in Japan 3. The Discursive Space of Modern Japan 4. The Allegory of Oe Kenzaburo: Football in the Year Man'en 1 5. The Landscape of Murakami Haruki: Pinball in the Year 1973, Translated by Hisayo Suzuki 6. The End of the Modern Novel, Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs 7. Buddhism and Fascism Glossary Works Cited Index

Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher and founder of the New Associationist Movement (NAM). His books in English include Origins of Modern Japanese Literature; Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money; and Transcritique: On Kant and Marx. Seiji M. Lippit is associate professor of modern Japanese literature and culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Topographies of Japanese Modernism and editor of The Essential Akutagawa.

[The essays] are not for beginners, but will intrigue, challenge, and inform students of modern Japanese intellectual history and cultural studies,.. Highly recommeded. Choice Karatani's intelligence is prodigious... His penetrating grasp of this world makes trenchant his concerns and makes them worthy of serious attention by all who think that modernity--as well as Japan's confrontation with and existence in it--deserves profound consideration. Journal of Asian Studies

• Author's Preface to the English Edition Introduction: On Repetition, Singularity, and Historicity, by Seiji M. Lippit 1. Introduction: On The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 2. History and Repetition in Japan 3. The Discursive Space of Modern Japan 4. The Allegory of Oe Kenzaburo: Football in the Year Man'en 1 5. The Landscape of Murakami Haruki: Pinball in the Year 1973, Translated by Hisayo Suzuki 6. The End of the Modern Novel, Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs 7. Buddhism and Fascism Glossary Works Cited Index