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Hardcover:
9780822360780 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 2016, cover price $99.95
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9780822360926 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 2016, cover price $28.95
Product Description: Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the "inhuman" imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives...read more
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9780674022959 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 15, 2007, cover price $50.00
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9780674023949 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 31, 2007, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community.
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. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780231130189 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $95.00
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9780231130196 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415943352 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991).
Product Description: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years...read more
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9780415943369 | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991).
Product Description: Book by Social Text Collective (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780816630677 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Book by Social Text Collective
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9780816630684 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $26.00
The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase. Conventionally, it designates the law as a determinate corpus; legal codes, statutes, and the rulings of common law. But it can also refer to the subjected body that is produced by and is part of the law. This subjected body is necessary for the law's existence. Thinking Through the Body of the Law reconceives the role of the body in the founding, maintaining, and regulation of our legal systems and social order and elaborates on its implications for issues of legal responsibility and justice. Taking into account and sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust, land-rights for Aboriginals, murder, the media and insanity, taxation, genetic engineering, and sexy dressing and sexual harassment. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780814715444 | New York Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $85.00
Paperback:
9780814715451 | New York Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase.
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