Politics of Culture

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.

• 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