Spectral Nationality - Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation

Acknowledgments xi List of Selected Works Cited and Abbreviations xiii Introduction. The Death of the Nation? 1(14) PART I CULTURE AS FREEDOM: TERRITORIALIZATIONS AND DETERRITORIALIZATIONS 15(218) 1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body 17(44) Myths of the Organic Community 17(8) The Transition from Mechanistic to Organismic Metaphors of the Social and Political Body 25(9) Freedom, Culture, and Organism 34(27) 2. Kant's Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature 61(54) How Can Freedom Be Objectively Real? Antimechanism Before the Third Critique 64(10) Taking Credit from Nature: Culture as Freedom in Kant's Historical Writings 74(6) Organized Products of Nature: Organismic Causality and Freedom in the Critique of Judgment 80(9) The Political Body as Organism: Cosmopolitan Culture and the Reorganization/Organization of the State-Machine 89(10) The Technic of Nature: Effacing Nature's Favor and the Absolute Recuperation of Techne 99(7) The Technic of the Other: Sheer Exposure 106(9) 3. Incarnations of the Ideal: Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel 115(64) The Original People: Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation 117(4) The Nation as a Community of Language and the Overcoming of Death 121(4) The Kulturnation as Spiritual Organism 125(4) The State as Instrument of the People: Why National Bildung Is Not an Official Ideology 129(7) The Originary Infection of the Nation-People 136(5) The Actualization of Reason: Hegel's Organic State and the Ghost of National Culture 141(3) Wirklichkeit and the Idea of the State 144(5) Becoming Other While Staying at Home: The Animal Organism 149(4) The Vital State and the Machine of Civil Society 153(8) Bildung as the Paradigm of Spiritual Work and Freedom 161(8) Volksgeist The Apparitional Supplement of the Rational State 169(10) 4. Revolutions That Take Place in the Head: Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonization 179(54) The World Community of Productive Laborers: Marx's Deterritorialization of Freedom 181(10) Epigenesis of Labor: The Verwirklichung of Humanity and the Proletarian Revolution as Appropriation 191(9) Ghostly Consciousness, Haunted Actuality 200(8) Acts of Culture: The Return of the Nation-People in Socialist Decolonization 208(25) PART II SURVIVING (POSTCOLONIALITY) 233(148) 5. Novel Nation: The Bildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism 235(14) 6. The Haunting of the People: The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet 249(58) The Buru Quartet's Function: Reanimating a Critical Public Sphere in New Order Indonesia 253(11) The Birth and Arrested Life of the Indonesian Nation Circa 1900 264(5) The Modernity of National Consciousness: The Spectral World of Modern Knowledge 269(4) The Comparative Gaze and the Desire for National Bildung 273(8) Freedom Through the Nation: The Critique of Colonialist Instrumental Reason as the Reenchantment of the World 281(8) Conjuring the People, Giving Life to the National Body: Organization as Vital Movement and Power 289(7) "Landasan [yang] lebih mengikat": What Binds a Healthy Nation People Together 296(11) 7. Afterlives: The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation 307(74) The Negation of Life: The State as the Agent of Death 307(5) The Negation of Death 312(7) The Haunting of the Colonial State by Minke's Afterlife 319(10) Morbid Interrogations: The Constitutive Possibility of Death Within the Living National Body 329(2) Publicness and the Spectral Gaze of State Surveillance 331(10) Counterfeit Life 341(13) 8. The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body: Ngúgi wa Thiong'o's Project of Revolutionary National Culture 349(5) National Culture as Self Recursive Mediation 354(9) The Onus of Narrative Fiction 363(2) Monstrous Bodies and Nonfunctional Organs 365(6) The Surviving of Surviving 371(10) Epilogue. Spectral Nationality: The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization 381(16) Index 397