The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai Book

Editors’ Introduction Part I: Translation and its Effects 1. Novelistic Desire, Theoretical Attitude, and Translating Heteroglossia: Reading Natsume S?seki’s Sanshir? with Naoki Sakai Michael K. Bourdaghs 2. Deixis, Dislocation, and Suspense in Translation: Tawada Y?ko’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