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What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
By
Pheng Cheah
Pheng Cheah
Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of
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Duke University Press
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7453-4
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
The World According to Hegel: Culture and Power in World History
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Published:January 2016
This chapter examines the spiritualist conception of world in Hegel’s philosophy of world history. It explores how Hegel foregrounds the reality of violence in his optic of world history, the important role of culture in the justification of violence in relations between states, and how this account of cultural capital is superior to the account of world literature as a struggle over literary values.
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