Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF SELECTED WORKS CITED AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction. The Death of the Nation? -- 1. The Rationality of Life: On the Organismic Metaphor of the Social and Political Body -- 2. Kant's Cosmopolitanism and the Technic of Nature -- 3. Incarnations of the Ideal: Nation and State in Fichte and Hegel -- 4. Revolutions That Take Place in the Head: Marx and the National Question in Socialist Decolonization -- 5. Novel Nation: The Bildung of the Postcolonial Nation as Sociological Organism -- 6. The Haunting of the People: The Spectral Public Sphere in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet -- 7. Afterlives: The Mutual Haunting of the State and Nation -- 8. The Neocolonial State and Other Prostheses of the Postcolonial National Body: Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Project of Revolutionary National Culture -- Epilogue. Spectral Nationality: The Living-On of the Postcolonial Nation in Globalization