Spirits Are the Powers That Compel People
- Article: Science of Spirit. By Kojin Karatani. Crisis & Critique, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 183=
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Abstract
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"This paper is an examination of “spirits”. There are four kinds of spirits, and they originate in the four modes of exchange A, B, C, and D, respectively. Spirits, in other words, are the powers that compel people. Understanding these spirits is essential for the realization of D (communism)."
2. Kojin Karatani:
"Several years ago, I contributed a thesis titled “Capital as Spirit” to Crisis & Critique. In this thesis, I developed some of the thoughts I had after writing The Structure of World History . It was an attempt to reconsider ““modes of exchange”“ that I proposed in that book.
Since then, I have been rethinking the mode of exchange in the same line, which will become a book titled “Power and Modes of Exchange”. At the heart of that book is what might be called the “science of spirits”. My consideration of “spirit” has some of its origins in Hegel’s spirits (especially in his Philosophy of Right, which deals with the problem of the capital-nation-state) and Marx’s fetish (Capital). In this essay, I will give a very brief introduction to this “science of spirits”."
(https://www.crisiscritique.org/volume_8-issue_2/CC_8.2_Kojin%20Karatani.pdf)