1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. LIST OF SELECTED WORKS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS xiii
5. 1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body 17
6. 2. Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature 61
7. 3. Incarnations of the Ideal: Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel 115
8. 4. Revolutions That Take Place in the Head: Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonization 179
9. 5. Novel Nation: The Bildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism 235
10. 6. The Haunting of the People: The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Quartet 249
11. 7. Afterlives: The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation 307
12. 8. The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body: Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s Project of Revolutionary National Culture 349
13. Epilogue. Spectral Nationality: The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization 381
14. INDEX 397
15. Introduction. The Death of the Nation? 1