Empire of liberty

power, desire, and freedom

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August 15, 2020 | History

Empire of liberty

power, desire, and freedom

In this thoughtful and timely consideration of the nature of American power and empire, Anthony Bogues argues that America's self-presentation as the bastion of liberty is an attempt to force upon the world a single universal truth, which has the objective of eradicating the radical imagination. Central to this project of American supremacy is the elaboration and construction of a language of power in which a form of self-government appears as the form of sovereignty. Grappling with issues of power, race, slavery, violence, and the nature of postcolonial criticism and critical theory, Bogues offers reconsiderations of the writings of W. E. B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon in order to break holes in this accepted structure of empire. At its heart this is a work of radical humanistic theory that seeks to glean from the postcolonial world and empire an alternative to its imperial form of freedom.

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Empire of liberty: power, desire, and freedom
2010, Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England
in English
Cover of: Empire of Liberty
Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, and Freedom
2010, Dartmouth College
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Empire of liberty : desire, power, and the states of exception
"Race, historical trauma, and democracy : the politics of a historical wrong"
"Death, power, violence, and new sovereignties?
The end of history or the invention of existence : critical thought and thinking about the human?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Hanover, N.H
Series
Re-mapping the transnational

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Dewey Decimal Class
327.73001
Library of Congress
JC585 .B578 2010, JC585.B578 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24452421M
ISBN 13
9781584659303, 9781584659310
LCCN
2010021296
OCLC/WorldCat
607986524

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