Kojin Karatani

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic. Karatani was educated at University of Tokyo where he took a BA degree in economics and an MA in English literature. The Gunz- Literary Prize, which he received at the age of 27 for an essay on Natsume S-seki, was the first critical acclaim as a literary critic. While teaching at Hosei University, Tokyo, he wrote extensively about modernity and postmodernity with a particular focus on language, number, and money, concepts which form the subtitle of one of his central books: Architecture as Metaphor.