1st Edition

The Politics of Culture Around the Work of Naoki Sakai

Edited By Richard Calichman, John Namjun Kim Copyright 2010
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded in large part in destabilizing that home, exposing the fragility of its boundaries to an outside... Read more

Editors’ Introduction  Part I: Translation and its Effects  1. Novelistic Desire, Theoretical Attitude, and Translating Heteroglossia: Reading Natsume Sōseki’s Sanshirō with Naoki Sakai Michael K. Bourdaghs  2. Deixis, Dislocation, and Suspense in Translation: Tawada Yōko’s Bath Brett de Bary  3. Politics as Translation: Naoki Sakai and the Critique of Hermeneutics John Namjun Kim  4. The Biopolitics of Companion Species: Wartime Animation and Multi-Ethnic Nationalism Thomas Lamarre  5. Translating the Image Helen Petrovsky  Part II: Economies of Difference  6. For a Communist Ontology William Haver  7. Living in Transition: Toward a Heterolingual Theory of the Multitude Sandro Mezzadra  8. Transition to a World Society: Naoki Sakai’s Work in the Context of Capital-Imperialism Jon Solomon  9. Total War and Subjectivity: ‘Economic Ethics’ as a Trajectory toward Postwar J. Victor Koschmann Part III: The Modern West and its Outside 10. The Western Relation: The Politics of Humanism Frédéric Neyrat  11. Modernization, Modernity, and Tradition: Sociological Theory’s Promissory Notes Andreas Langenohl  12. Theologico-Political Militancy in Ignacio de Loyola’s Ejercicios espirituales Alberto Moreiras  13. Interview with Naoki Sakai

Biography

Richard F. Calichman is Associate Professor of the City College of New York, CUNY, USA. John Namjun Kim is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, USA.