フレドリック・ジェイムソン序言。"I have hopes that Karatani's book--one of those infrequent moments in which a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of full national and historical statement - will also have a fundamental impact on literary criticism in the West. . . . For Origins has some lessons for us about critical pluralism, in addition to its principal message, which turns on that old and new topic of modernity itself." Fredric Jameson, from the Preface