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Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation
Pheng Cheah
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Description for Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation
Paperback. In this volume, Pheng Cheah provides a rethink of post-colonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism. He suggests that the difficulties of achieving freedom in the postcolonial world indicate the need to reconceptualize freedom in terms of the figure of the spectre. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
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 history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not altogether dismissive, of the idea of the nation and the related metaphor of the political body as an organism. Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant ... Read more
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 history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not altogether dismissive, of the idea of the nation and the related metaphor of the political body as an organism. Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231130196
SKU
V9780231130196
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About Pheng Cheah
Pheng Cheah is assistant professor in the department of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. He is co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation, Thinking through the Body of the Law and Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (forthcoming).
Reviews for Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation
The book offers a coherent argument against inherited theories of "organismic vitalism"...and evinces the literary idiom of postmodernism. Choice Cheah's text is one of those rare occasions where scholarship and political commitment become supplementary to each other.
Baidik Bhattcharya Interventions Cheah does a superb job in outlining the organic and ultimately cultural forms the struggle for freedom has taken. ... Read more
Baidik Bhattcharya Interventions Cheah does a superb job in outlining the organic and ultimately cultural forms the struggle for freedom has taken. ... Read more