TOWARD A WORLD REPUBLIC:  KŌJIN KARATANI AND REVISITING KANT

Aleksandra Piechnik

doi:10.31648/hip.11660

Published: 2025-12-19

No. 31 (2025)

W stronę republiki światowej: Kōjin Karatani i powrót do Kanta

Aleksandra Piechnik

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.11660

Abstract

The paper aims to recount key issues to Kōjin

Karatani’s The Structure of World History in

regard to Immanuel Kant’s social philosophy.

The first part of the article summarizes key

points made by Kant regarding his notion of

perpetual peace. The second part concerns

Karatani’s concept of the “modes of exchange”,

an attempt to grasp the entirety of history in

a way that represents a modified line of thinking within the Marxist tradition. The third

part amounts to metatheoretical remarks concerning the presented texts, the interpretation

and application of Kant’s perpetual peace into

Karatani’s World Republic.

Keywords:

Kōjin Karatani, Immanuel Kant, World Republic, perpetual peace, modes of exchange

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Piechnik, A. (2025). W stronę republiki światowej: Kōjin Karatani i powrót do Kanta. Humanities and Natural Sciences, 31(31), 133–145. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.11660

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