... and Japan in terms of a shared experience of modernity. The chapter argues that the disavowal of empire characterizes the nature of imperialism in the region from the past to the present. The conundrum of colonial modernity examined throughout the book returns as a paradox of postcoloniality and post–Cold...

... to the rise of modern agricultural technologies, dubbed the Green Revolution, and to the resulting new ways to categorize, objectify, and manipulate life across po liti cal and biological bound aries. These plateaus wait to be scaled, poised with the continuing bioge ne tic paradoxes that lie behind...

... Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy Chantal Mouffe In his introduction to the paperback edition of Political Liberalism, John Rawls, referring to Carl Schmitt's critique of parliamentary democracy, suggests that the fall of Weimar's constitutional regime...