[KineJapan] Kojin Karatani wins $1 million Berggruen Prize

[jjesty]

Hello everyone,

I saw this piece of news and thought others might be interested.

Kojin Karatani wins $1 million Berggruen Prize
https://artdaily.cc/news/152474/Kojin-Karatani-wins--1-million-Berggruen-Prize

NEW YORK, NY.- Over his long paradigm-busting career, philosopher Kojin Karatani has recast Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx for a new generation. He has offered a trenchant critique of the limits of global capitalism. And he has engaged with other leading thinkers like Jacques Derrida, becoming one of the most important literary critics and philosophers in his native Japan.

Now, Karatani has been named the recipient of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award given annually to a thinker whose ideas have “provided wisdom and self-understanding in a rapidly changing world,” according to the Berggruen Institute, the Los Angeles-based foundation that funds the prize. ...

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