Spectral Nationality
| Author | : Pheng Cheah |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780231130196 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0231130198 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (198 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Spectral Nationality by : Pheng Cheah
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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