Kojin Karatani is an internationally renowned theorist and philosopher. Previously, he was a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, Kinki University in Osaka, and Columbia University. Among the dozens of books that he has written in Japanese, four have been translated into English: History and Repetition ; Transcritique: Kant and Marx ; Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money ; and Origins of Modern Japanese Literature , which is also published by Duke University Press.