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53Julia KristevaIn Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press. 2006.
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60Drawing from Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, this paper explores how and why China’s linguistic revolutions took place alongside the country’s quest for scientific, economic and political modernity. When discussing the contributions made by translation of Western texts to China’s modernization process, scholars have been focusing on content issues. They have overlooked how translation, _through effecting changes in the Chinese language, has transformed the Chinese people’s Weltanschauung at a fu…Read more
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Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2006.
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57"Law, Justice, and Power in the Global Age." (edited book)Stanford University Press. 2004.includes an examination of the tensions between reason and will in the history of legal and political philosophy
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79The Female Body as a Post-Colonial Site of Political ProtestIn Law, justice, and power: between reason and will, Stanford University Press. pp. 115. 2004.
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1Resisting the Law of Representation: The Ethics and Politics of Desire in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British LiteratureDissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo. 1995.Drawing on Lacanian theory, deconstruction, cultural studies, philosophies of law, and reconsiderations of post-colonialism, my dissertation performs close readings of texts by Byron, Yeats, and Forster in order to examine the ambiguous relationship between justice and the law in both existentialist and colonialist settings. I highlight the discrepancies between justice and law as they are formulated by these three authors by tracing the tension between the law of desire and the law of represent…Read more
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74“Confucius, Aristotle, and a New `Right’ to Connect China to the West: What Concepts of `Self’ and `Right’ We Might Have without the Christian Notion of Original Sin?” Self or No-Self? The Debate about Selflessness and the Sense of Self, ed. Ingolf U. Dalferth. 269-299. (DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-155355-4) (edited book)Mohr Siebeck. 2017.Concepts of “self” and “right” in three civilizations: primarily Confucian and ancient Greek, with references to Aristotle’s medieval Christian commentators; Uses the classical Greek and Chinese traditions’ common incompatibility with modern liberal notion of “right” to explore the commonalities between them, and on that basis endeavors to connect the East to the West with a “right” that could better harmonize the self with society, right with duty, and negative with positive freedom.
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73"Translatio Temporis_ and _Translatio Imperii_: From `_Wenming_ versus Civilization’ to `_Wenming_ as Civilization." In _Enjeux et positionnements de l'interdisciplinarité Positioning interdisciplinarity = Positioning Interdisciplinarity. Ed. David Ten Eyck, Claudine Armand, and Vanessa Boullet. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2014. 181-211. (edited book)Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2014.. 2014.comparative civilizations in relation to cyclical versus linear concepts of time; translation, intertemporal encounters, and their political ramifications (including international relations); extends Koselleck's _Begriffsgeschichte_ by engaging it in a critical dialogue with translation studies
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61Crossing Desire and Drive in A Passage to India: The Subversion of the British Colonial Law in the `Twilight Zone of Double Vision.Literature and Psychology 47 (3): 1-24. 2001.Lacan in dialogue with race
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145"Civilization" and the Two Faces of LawCardozo Law Review 24 (6): 2349-2370. 2003.applies Lacan to analyze racial violence and colonialism
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66The Kingdom of Heaven versus the Kingdom on Earth: Christianity and the Africans in Black Anger.Jouvert [North Carolina State University] 3 (1-2). 1999.
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81Psychoanalysis and LiteratureIn Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 288-290. 2006.
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125This paper adopts a transnational approach to a global issue. I bring together two different traditions—Derridean deconstruction and Buddhism--to address world conflicts as well as intra- and inter-national calls for apology in the global age. Derrida and Buddhism are brought together for good reasons. The “cosmos” underpins both kinds of praxis. The kosmos-polis is the context which prompts Derrida to interrogate forgiveness anew; Buddhism has telling insights to offer on the cosmic effects of …Read more
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81Ressentiment, the Superego, and TotalitarianismCardozo Law Review 24 (3): 1019-1130. 2003.draws from Nietzsche, Freud, Camus, Arendt, Lacan, and Lefort to analyze totalitarianism
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73Walter BenjaminIn Victor E. Taylor & Charles E. Winquist (eds.), Encyclopedia of postmodernism, Routledge. pp. 33-35. 2001.
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64Rev. of The Rhetoric of Sincerity, ed. Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, and Carel Smith. (review)Comparative Literature Studies 50 122-126. 2010.
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58Begriffsgeschichte, the Will to Power, and a New Politics of Translation.Global Intellectual History 6 (1): 47-59. 2021.Philosophy of language, culture, and translation via Nietzsche and Koselleck
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56"Translation and International Relations: A Begriffsgeschichte Study of Chinese Translations of Ολυμπιακοί αγώνες."Transfer 14 (1-2): 141-181. 2019.This paper establishes a critical dialogue among three kinds of cross-national activities: translation, the Olympic Games, and international relations. All three activities involve interstate _amicitia_ —where _traduttore/traditore_ cannot be clearly distinguished, and where amity/enmity cannot be easily set apart. My discussion of the structural similarities among these three kinds of cross-national activities intersects with my examination of the historical connections of the Olympic Games to …Read more
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60Rev. of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, ed. Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, and Maire JaanusJournal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 2 (1): 151-154. 1997.
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79Gordimer, Race, and the Impossibility of Communicative Action in Apartheid South Africa.Humanities Bulletin [London Academic Publishing] 2 (2): 123-144. 2019.Drawing from Bakhtin and Habermas, I will show how the different voices in Gordimer's novel seem to be enacting a democratic public sphere in which no voice is granted authority over others – a public sphere which carries the promise of countering the social and political hierarchies established by the racist South African regime. The promise, however, turns out to be an illusion. As I will demonstrate, the possibility of an Enlightenment bourgeois public sphere which the novel seems to be gestu…Read more
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58An Asian Woman's Reply to Susan Moller Okin's `Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?Umbr(A) 2001 51-68. 2001.solicited by Joan Copjec; use Balibar to respond to Susan Moller Okin in my analysis of the tensions between feminism and multiculturalism
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46The Chinese Xia versus the European Knight: Social, Cultural, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives.Entertext [Brunel University, London] 6 (1): 40-73. 2006.examines Hegel’s analysis of honor and recognition in the chivalric culture, and contrasts that to the xia tradition’s engagement with Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Chinese Legalism
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69“Translation, Power Hierarchy, and the Globalization of the Concept `Human Rights’: Potential Contributions from Confucianism Missed by the UDHR.”Age of Human Rights Journal 4 1-33. 2015.This essay strikes new paths for investigating the politics of translation and the (non-) universality of the concept of “human rights” by engaging them in a critical dialogue. Part I of my essay argues that a truly universal concept would have available linguistic equivalents in all languages. On this basis, I develop translation into a tool for disproving the claim that the concept human rights is universal. An inaccurate claim to universality could be made to look valid, however, if one cultu…Read more
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55"Fremdwörter as `The Jews of Language' and Adorno's Politics of Exile."In Maggie O'Neill (ed.), Adorno, culture, and feminism, Sage Publications. pp. 75-103. 1999.on race and Adorno’s philosophy of language by engaging Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, and Derrida; singled out in the collection as "superb" by the reader for Sage Press
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