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Spectral Nationality

Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

Autor: Pheng Cheah

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Editura: Columbia University Press

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This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Pheng Cheah

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2003

Pagini

432

EAN

9780231130189

ISBN

023113018X

Enbook ID

04558087

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

680

Dimensiuni

159 x 235 x 29

Descriere completă

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 and its development in philosophers in the German tradition such as Fichte, Hegel, and Marx. Cheah argues that the widespread association of freedom with the self-generating dynamism of life and culture's power of transcendence is the most important legacy of this tradition. Addressing this legacy's manifestations in Fanon and Cabral's theories of anticolonial struggle and contemporary anticolonial literature, including the Buru Quartet by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's nationalist novels, Cheah suggests that the profound difficulties of achieving freedom in the postcolonial world indicate the need to reconceptualize freedom in terms of the figure of the specter rather than the living organism.