Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

ISBN-13: 9780415943352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str.

Pheng Cheah; Jonathan Culler

Opis

Benedict Anderson is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Read both by social scientists and humanists, Anderson has thought anew such questions as why people love and die for nations, how religious faith became a territorial issue, the interrelation of capitalism and print, and how forms of nationalism have been adapted and transformed in different situations. This volume includes essays on Anderson's themes and ideas by such scholars as Andrew Parker, Lydia Liu, Doris Sommer, Harry Harootunian, Partha Chatterjee, David Hollinger and Marc Redfield.

Spis treści

1. Grounds of Comparison 2. On Imagined Communities 3. Anderson and the Novel 4. Bogeyman: Benedict Anderson's Derivative Discourse 5. Imagi-Nation: The Imagined Community and the Aesthetics of Mourning 6. Be-longing and Bi-lingual States 7. Authority, Solidarity, and the Political Economy of Identity: The Case of the United 8. Anderson's Utopia 9. Ghostly Comparisons: Anderson's Telescope 10. The Desire for the Sovereign and the Logic of Reciprocity in the Family of Nations 11. Response

O autorze

Pheng Cheah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell; among his many books is Structuralist Poetics.