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The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
Rey Chow
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Description for The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
Paperback. A theoretical exploration of the connected roles of area studies, poststructuralist theory, and comparative literature in constructing the world as a target for U.S. imperialism Series: Next Wave: Provocations. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the Second World War, seems repeatedly to confirm. How to articulate the problematics of knowledge production with this aggressive targeting of the world? Chow attempts such an articulation by probing the significance of the chronological proximity of area studies, poststructuralist theory, and comparative literature—fields of inquiry ... Read more
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the Second World War, seems repeatedly to confirm. How to articulate the problematics of knowledge production with this aggressive targeting of the world? Chow attempts such an articulation by probing the significance of the chronological proximity of area studies, poststructuralist theory, and comparative literature—fields of inquiry ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Next Wave: Provocations
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822337447
SKU
V9780822337447
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About Rey Chow
Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of several books, including The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Ethics after Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading; and Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, which won the Modern Language Association’s James ... Read more
Reviews for The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
“The Age of the World Target is a catalyzing tour-de-force. Rey Chow provides a poignant, persuasive staging of a topic that will shape the future of literary and cultural studies: the role of particular poststructuralist claims within the fields of area studies, identity politics, and comparative literature.”—Bill Brown, author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature ... Read more