Spectral Nationality : : Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation /

Spectral Nationality : : Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation / / Pheng Cheah.

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This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has a tainted his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Cheah, Pheng,
MitwirkendeR:
Wellmon, Chad,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF SELECTED WORKS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body
  • 2. Kant's Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature
  • 3. Incarnations of the Ideal: Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel
  • 4. Revolutions That Take Place in the Head: Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonization
  • 5. Novel Nation: The Bildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism
  • 6. The Haunting of the People: The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet
  • 7. Afterlives: The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation
  • 8. The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body: Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Project of Revolutionary National Culture
  • Epilogue. Spectral Nationality: The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization
  • INDEX
  • Introduction. The Death of the Nation?

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