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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Arms and Letters -- 1 Virtue, Honour, and Exemplarity -- 2 Professional Honour and the Production of Knowledge -- 3 Spiritual Honour and Religious Authority -- 4 Playing the Pícaro -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze's work there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Credits -- 1 Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Perspective of History -- The Epistemology of Postcolonial Criticism -- Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of History -- Theory, History and Common Sense: Local Movements and Indigenism as Locations for a New Radicalism -- Notes -- 2 Culturalism as Hegemonic Ideology and Liberating Practice -- Culturalism and Marxist Culturalism -- Historicism, Structuralism and Hegemony: The Alienation of Intellectuals and the Abstraction of Society -- The Third World Intellectual and Marxist Historicism -- Culture, Hegemony and Liberation -- Notes -- 3 The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism -- Postcolonial Intellectuals and Postcolonial Criticism -- Global Capitalism and the Condition of Postcoloniality -- Notes -- 4 The Global in the Local -- Rethinking the Local -- Global Localism -- Considerations on the Local as Site of Resistance -- Notes -- 5 Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism -- Orientalism -- The Orientalism of the Orientals -- Orientalism Reconsidered -- Notes -- 6 There Is More in the Rim than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea -- The Pacific Rim: EuroAmerican and Asian -- The Pacific and EuroAmerican Vision -- Glimpses from the Inside -- Indigenous Visions/Pacific Rim Discourse -- Notes -- 7 Three Worlds or One, or Many? The Reconfiguration of Global Relations Under Contemporary Capitalism -- The Third World in Contemporary Criticism -- Global Capitalism and the Question of the Third World -- Reinventing Revolution -- Notes -- 8 Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism -- Postcolonial Criticism and History -- Postcoloniality and Capitalism -- Postcolonialism and Revolution -- Notes

Following Hu Yaobang's resignation as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party on 16 January 1987, the political and economic reforms sponsored by Deng Xiaoping since 1978 came under intense criticism. Warning against "bourgeois liberalization" and renewed "spiritual pollution" from the west, Party conservatives reacted to student demonstrations in December 1986 by reversing the "Double Hundred" policy of literary and scientific freedom and by engineering the purge of the ardent westernizers Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan and Wang Ruowang. Deng Liqun's "Leading Group to Oppose Bourgeois Liberalism," Chen Yun's Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC), and the outspoken Peng Zhen emerged as the main ideological watchdogs favouring restrictions on individual expression. But even the pro-reformer Zhao Ziyang condemned western ideas as "pernicious," just as his chief secretary Bao Tong, warned intellectuals against "writ[ing] only about (the merits) of developed capitalist countries."

Much of Thomas Hobbes's work can be read as historical commentary, taking up questions in the philosophy of history and the rhetorical possibilities of written history. This collection of scholarly essays explores the relation of Hobbes's work to history as a branch of learning