Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF SELECTED WORKS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • Introduction. The Death of the Nation?
  • 1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body
  • 2. Kant's Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature
  • 3. Incarnations of the Ideal: Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel
  • 4. Revolutions That Take Place in the Head: Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonization
  • 5. Novel Nation: The Bildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism
  • 6. The Haunting of the People: The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet
  • 7. Afterlives: The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation
  • 8. The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body: Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Project of Revolutionary National Culture
  • Epilogue. Spectral Nationality: The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization.