LEADER 05003nam 22008654a 450 001 9910450954703321 005 20210616220351.0 010 $a1-283-00835-1 010 $a9786613008350 010 $a0-231-50360-1 024 7 $a10.7312/chea13018 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445312 035 $a(EBL)909249 035 $a(OCoLC)818856926 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249613 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209264 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249613 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10227914 035 $a(PQKB)11720128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909249 035 $a(DE-B1597)458736 035 $a(OCoLC)60882896 035 $a(OCoLC)979627863 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231503600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183518 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300835 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445312 100 $a20030623d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpectral nationality$b[electronic resource] $epassages of freedom from Kant to postcolonial literatures of liberation /$fPheng Cheah 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (427 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-13019-8 311 0 $a0-231-13018-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tLIST OF SELECTED WORKS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS --$tIntroduction. The Death of the Nation? --$tPART I. CULTURE AS FREEDOM: TERRITORIALIZATIONS AND DETERRITORIALIZATIONS --$t1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body --$t2. Kant's Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature --$t3. Incarnations of the Ideal: Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel --$t4. Revolutions That Take Place in the Head: Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonization --$tPART II. SURVIVING (POSTCOLONIALITY) --$t5. Novel Nation: The Bildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism --$t6. The Haunting of the People: The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet --$t7. Afterlives: The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation --$t8. The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body: Ng?g? wa Thiong'o's Project of Revolutionary National Culture --$tEpilogue. Spectral Nationality: The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aDecolonization 606 $aNationalism 606 $aState, The 606 $aNational characteristics 606 $aNation-state 606 $aCulture 606 $aLiberty 606 $aInternationalism 606 $aPhilosophy, German$y18th century 606 $aPhilosophy, German$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 615 0$aDecolonization. 615 0$aNationalism. 615 0$aState, The. 615 0$aNational characteristics. 615 0$aNation-state. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aLiberty. 615 0$aInternationalism. 615 0$aPhilosophy, German 615 0$aPhilosophy, German 676 $a325/.3/01 700 $aCheah$b Pheng$0788939 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450954703321 996 $aSpectral nationality$92477405 997 $aUNINA