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      What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

      Pheng Cheah

      In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to…

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      What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

      Pheng Cheah

      In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to…

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

      Pheng Cheah

      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…

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

      Pheng Cheah

      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…

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      Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

      Pheng Cheah

      Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Cheah questions key ideas about what it means to be human, and reveals the flaws in claims about the imminent…

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      Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

      Pheng Cheah,Jonathan Culler

      This volume includes essays on Anderson’s themes and ideas by such scholars as Andrew Parker, Lydia Liu, Doris Sommer, Harry Harootunian, Partha Chatterjee, David Hollinger, and Marc Redfield. Of particular…

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      Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

      Pheng Cheah,Jonathan Culler

      Benedict Anderson is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . This volume includes essays on Anderson’s themes and ideas by such…

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      Derrida and the Time of the Political

      A collection assessing the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics.

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      Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation

      Pheng Cheah

      Eminent contributors look at the present and future of cosmopolitanism and its relationship to nationalism.Nationalism and the nation-state have recently come under siege, their political dominance gradually eroding under the…

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      Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere

      The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sino-sphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with…

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      Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere

      The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sino-sphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with…

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      Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

      Pheng Cheah,Nancy N. Chen

      The charismatic form of healing called qigong, which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China since the early 1980s. This text examines the cultural…

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      Distributions of the Sensible: Ranciere, between Aesthetics and Politics

      Scott Durham,Dilip Gaonkar

      Jacques Ranciere’s work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities. Distributions of the Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought: How should we conceive the…

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      Distributions of the Sensible: Ranciere, between Aesthetics and Politics

      Scott Durham,Dilip Gaonkar

      Jacques Ranciere’s work is increasingly central to several debates across the humanities. Distributions of the Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought: How should we conceive the…

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      Delimiting Modernities: Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses

      This book transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting…

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      Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of Difference

      Written by internationally acclaimed scholars on futures of critical theory, this book attempts to renew and reinvigorate critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of…

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