Gopal Balakrishnan.

[Michael Pugliese]

Gopal Balakrishnan    A book on Carl Schmitt. Now maybe I'll read up more on
this guy. Quite a few books in the last few years on him. Mark Lilla,
reviewed some in the NYRB last year. Paul Piccone and the author of a work
on Karl Wittfogel,G. L. Ulmen, wrote a long letter in reply. (The Science of
Society: Toward an Understanding of the Life and Work of Karl August
Wittfogel
while finding the name of the co-author, I found this great bibliography
focusing on Lukacs, Wittfogel had a work on aesthetics.
http://www.fapeal.br/cdl/partigos.htm )

                                                           Michael Pugliese

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Gopal Balakrishnan

ISBN 1 85984 The Enemy
An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt

Other books by Gopal Balakrishnan...

Mapping the Nation
Edited by Gopal Balakrishnan
Introduced by Benedict Anderson
Few political phenomena have proved as confusing and difficult to comprehend
as nationalism. There is no established consensus on its identity, genesis
or future. Are we, for example, in the process of being thrust back into a
nineteenth century world of competitive and aggressive great powers and
petty nationalisms? Or, rather, are we being flung headlong into a new,
globalized and supra-national millennium? Has the nation-state outlived its
usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role, or has
nationalism always been implicated in an exclusivist ethnic and militaristic
logic?

      ISBN 1 85984 060 4
Mapping the Nation seeks to address these and other questions about the
nature and destiny of the 'national question' in the present epoch. A
comprehensive and definitive reader on the subject, with contributions from
some of the most significant and stimulating theorists of the nation-state,
it presents a wide range of divergent ideas and controversies. Leading off
with powerful statements of the classic liberal and socialist positions, by
Lord Acton and Otto Bauer, there then follows an historical-sociological
debate between the late Ernest Geliner and the Czech historian Miroslav
Hroch, the one stressing the connections between nationalism and the
transition away from agrarian society, the other emphasizing its variability
and real anthropological basis. John Breuilly and Anthony D. Smith, two of
the leading British specialists, provide a counterpoint to each other with
considerations on the respective importance of political leadership and
continuing ethnic communities in the construction of nationalist movements.
Gopal Balakrishnan, in a carefully honed critique of Benedict Anderson's
seminal Imagined Communities, and Partha Chatterjee, from the Subaltern
Studies circle, offer crucial insights on the limitations of the
Enlightenment approach to nationhood, as do Sylvia Walby and Katherine
Verdery with their reflections on the entanglements of nation, gender and
identity politics. Sociologist Michael Mann delivers an authoritative
refutation of the chatter about the 'death of the nation-state'. Finally,
relating the theoretical questions directly to the politics of our time,
renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm, provocative theorist Tom Nairn, and the
outstanding political philosopher Jijrgen Habermas discuss, with varying
degrees of optimism and pessimism, the future of the national project.

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