Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 408 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0231130198
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023113018X
Content:
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 retr
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spectral Nationality : Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation
Language:
English
