Before democracy

Reivew of Kojin Karatani, Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy

Nardina Kaur ~ RP 2.02 (June 2018), pp. 110–113 ~ Review

Kojin Karatani, Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017). 176pp., £70.00 hb., £19.99 pb., 978 0 82236 885 4 hb., 978 0 82236 913 4 pb. Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy is a far from straightforward book to assess. Its sustained and remarkably coherent re-reading of early Greek philosophy […]

Out of Japan: The New Associationist Movement

Harry Harootunian ~ RP 108 (Jul/Aug 2001) ~ Commentary

Out of Japan The New Associationist Movement Harry harootunian If the news from Japan during the last decade has concentrated on the depressing symptoms of decline of what once had been hailed as a miracle model of capitalist development, the announcement last year of the establishment of the New Associationist Movement in Osaka and Tokyo […]