Spectral Nationality

Author	: Pheng Cheah
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Total Pages	: 428
Release	: 2003
ISBN-10	: 9780231130196
ISBN-13	: 0231130198
Rating	: 4/5 (96 Downloads)

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Download or read book Spectral Nationality written by Pheng Cheah and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.

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