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  • What Is a World?

    On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

    par Pheng Cheah ...
    In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world as ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Spectral Nationality

    Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

    par Pheng Cheah ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Inhuman Conditions

    On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

    par Pheng Cheah ...
    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. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Inhuman Conditions

    On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

    par Pheng Cheah ...
    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. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    par Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Grounds of Comparison

    Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

    par Pheng Cheah, Jonathan Culler ...
    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. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists, it has become an unavoidable document. For people ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

  • Delimiting Modernities

    Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses

    par Sven Trakulhun, Ralph Weber, Pheng Cheah, Gudrun Krämer, Anthony Reid, Volker H. Schmidt, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Arif Dirlik, Wolfgang Knöbl0, Tamara Loos1, Andrea Riemenschnitter2 ...
    This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

  • The Creolization of Theory

    par Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah, Leo Ching, Barnor Hesse, Anne Donadey ...
    Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Siting Postcoloniality

    Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere

    Modifié par Pheng Cheah, Caroline S. Hau ...
    Collections series Sinotheory
    The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy

    Horizon and Discourse

    par Tsenay Serequeberhan ...
    Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    par Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... En savoir plus

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  • Marx and Heidegger

    Gerry Stahl's eLibrary, #1

    par Gerry Stahl ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Gerry Stahl's eLibrary
    This volume considers the two most important philosophers of the modern age. Today, the philosophies of Marx and Heidegger are still extremely relevant—provided one adapts them to the current socio-historical context and adjusts each to the implicit criticisms of the other—as indicated in this book. In particular, Marx countered the ideology of individualism by analyzing social structures and ... En savoir plus

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