[PDF.19pa] Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

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 | #1486742 in Books |  2003-12-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.86 x.91 x6.02l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Well worth it|By JS|I am responding largely to the previous review of this book that takes Cheah to task for failing "to ponder the potential contribution of capitalism and less radically egalitarian measures to achieve his ends"! Ha! That reviewer is welcome to his opinion, of course, but due to his obviously conservative agenda, I think it is quite unfortunate that to date hi| |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

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 th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation   |  Pheng Cheah. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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