The Study On Kojin Karatani Ex-ante Perspective

Capital,as a philosophical work,profoundly analyzes the capitalist society and its operation and development,criticizes the capitalist political economy theory represented by Adam Smith,and reflects on the realistic path of human liberation in a philosophical thinking pattern while completing the self-transcendence of philosophical theory.Different from scientific writings,Capital does not generalize and summarize the scientific laws and construct the concept of “constructivist”,but pursues the prerequisite philosophical reflection and reveals the “epistemology and the premise of value theory” which is contained in the scientific achievements.Then it reveals“relations between person and person” that is hidden in the “relations between material and material” from a philosophical perspective.As for the philosophical theory itself,the reform of thinking patterns is undoubtedly the most shining part,and scholars at home and abroad are enthusiastic about the analysis of the logic and thinking patterns of capital.In this case,the Japanese scholar Kojin Karatani,put the new explanation of Capital including “Transcritique” and so on.He argues that there is a thinking pattern existing in Marx’s Capital that is different from Hegel but close to Kant’s “ex-ante perspective”.This paper will introduce two kinds of explanations for the concept of ex-ante perspective: first,as a reflection of Kantian,that is,the introduction of a certain objectivity to overcome the reflection of the “conspiracy” and good at discovering“strong parallax” in the reflection,as well as move in different systems and different fields to continue “retrospective”,“transcendental” critique;second,after an objective judgment of Kojin Karatani,it is meaningful to understand the ex-ante perspective in the historical dimension of thinking.In other words,thoughts should be attached great importance to people’s real life and its historical development of participation or significance.Human beings should deepen the historical dimension of things,re-examine the various aspects of the development of things,full respect for the independence of things and pay attention to the relationship between things and human.It is pointed out that the ex-ante perspective in Capital is a manifestation of the diversity of historical thinking.The ex-ante perspective is a new way of thinking about the mutual understanding and connection between Marx’s philosophy and other philosophical systems.