Question
A surprising 2020 bestseller in Japan argues that a Marxian post-scarcity society is the only adequate response to this epoch. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this epoch that was popularized by Paul Crutzen. In that 2020 book, Kohei Saito used this term to emphasize how “our economic activities” have “fully transformed” the planet.
ANSWER: anthropocene [or Capital in the Anthropocene]
[10m] Due to the influence of Samezō Kuruma, Saito emphasizes this concept in his understanding of Marx. Saito cites a György Lukács essay on this process “and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” to explain how modern science separated nature from history.
ANSWER: reification [or “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat”]
[10h] Saito situated his book in a history of radical bestsellers in Japan, which began when this other Marxist achieved fame. This thinker aimed to root Marxism in Kantian ethics in the book Transcritique.
ANSWER: Kōjin Karatani
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |