Boundary Lines

Emanuela Fornari is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre, Italy and has published several books, including Modernity Out of Joint: Global Democracy and Asian Values in Jürgen Habermas and Amartya K. Sen. Iain Halliday is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Catania, Italy. He is the author of Huck Finn in Italian, Pinocchio in English: Theory and Praxis of Literary Translation.

• ForewordÉtienne BalibarIntroduction Part I. Time, History, Writing 1. The Margins of History1.1. World-History: The End of "Outside"1.2. Temporalization and Anachrony1.3. The Ambiguous Border: Exception and Liberation2. Writing, Narrations2.1. Counter-Histories2.2. Archives of Silence2.3. Narratives of the Possible3. Aporias of Memory3.1. The Law of the Past: Ruins and Other Remains3.2. Historical Sublime and Narrative Part II. Maps, Subjects, Translation 4. Translation and Transition4.1. Writing Machines4.2. Global Capital and "Historical Difference"5. Politics of Translation5.1. Cultural Identity and Ambivalence5.2. Language and Minorities5.3. Logic, Rhetoric, Silence6. Political Subjects6.1. Geography of Dominion, Cartographies of Subalternity6.2. The Political Word6.3. Difference and Position: Alliances LocatedNotesBibliographyIndex of Names

"Fornari's book is purposeful in its construction, framed by themes she puts into motion and in which each considered thinker is set. The result is an investigation of philosophy and the postcolonial that does not rely on familiar associations and gestures, but rather rigorous, original theorizing of key concepts. This is a compelling book that displays mature, important thinking on some of our most pressing philosophical issues." — John E. Drabinski, coeditor of Between Levinas and Heidegger