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The book represents a selection of papers presented at an international symposium in Singapore on the role of theory and practice in the mutually interactive and mutating relations between institutions and cultures. In effect, the papers turn about a single theme: the ways in which power is expressed through those institutions by means of which cultures mediate their requirements. The symposium brought together scholars and academics from a variety of disciplines, including literature, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature and comparative religions. In terms of the geography of cultures and the history of institutions, the range of reference to this book of the symposium is global: from Hong Kong awaiting 1997, through the travails of political democracy in Singapore, and Cultural Studies à la Greenblatt or under the aegis of Shakespeare as cultural idol, through German Romantic theory and its relevance to current theorizing about theory in America, to Zen Buddhism and Nagarjuna and how these two sources refract the concerns of Jung, Lacan and Derrida; through Colonialism and postcoloniality and how they have shaped identity and mediated power to the current crises in education created by these mediations, specifically, in literary studies. The aim of the symposium was twofold: to theorize about the impulse to theorize in relation to the plurality of cultures and institutions which comprises our contemporary world; and to ground this impulse in those specificities and contingencies which provide resistance to such theorizing

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE. Critical versus Traditional Hermeneutics -- 1. Interpreting Affirmative Culture -- 2. For a Critical Hermeneutics -- PART TWO. Marxism and the Problem of Culture -- 3. The Economy and the Symbolic -- 4. The Concrete Utopia of Poetry -- PART THREE. Culture and Psychoanalysis -- 5. The Social Constitution of Subjectivity -- 6. Aesthetics of Male Fantasy -- Conclusion: Heritage and Hegemony -- Index

In this digital age, where we are in a free and democratic society, we have a long history of literary censorship. In an age of unparalleled freedom and free exchange of ideas, free speech faces a grave threat from intolerant religious and cultural groups Censorship in the 20th and 21st century is not as it was practiced in middle-ages imposed by the state machinery, but it is more of a systematic silencing. The present paper discusses the need for artistic freedom, how the artist/ writer must be free to create his own creative world without being bothered by the social norms and standards.

Part 1: Institutions of Life -- Chapter 1. Bio-Poetics and the Dynamic Multiplicity of Bios: How Literature Challenges the Politics, Economics and Sciences of Life (Vittoria Borsò) -- Chapter 2. Institution and Life as an Institution: Uterus: Mother's Body, Father's Right (Life and Norm) (Petar Bojanić) -- Chapter 3. Towards a Poetics of Worldlessness: Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Human Action (Roland Végső) -- PART 2: Anthropology, Performativity, And Language -- Chapter 4. Man and Other Political Animals in Aristotle (Attila Simon) -- Chapter 5. Is There an Essential Convergence Between Signification and Animals? On the Truth and Lying of Animal Names in a Nietzschean Sense (Hajnalka Halász) -- Chapter 6. Noble Promises: Performativity and Physiology in Nietzsche (Csongor Lőrincz) -- Chapter 7. Austin's Animals (Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó) -- Chapter 8. Self-interpreting Language Animal: Charles Taylor's Anthropology (Csaba Olay) -- Part 3: Anthrozoology, Ethics, And Language -- Bio-Aesthetics -- Chapter 9. The Theriomorphic Face (Georg Witte) -- Chapter 10. 'Step by step into ever greater decadence': Discourses of Life and Metamorphic Anthropology (Márió Z. Nemes) -- Chapter 11. Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art (Jessica Ullrich) -- Part 4: Biopoetics, Zoopoetics, Biophilology -- Chapter 12. Io's Writing: Human and Animal in the Prison-House of Fiction (Ábel Tamás) -- Chapter 13. 'Lizard on a sunlit stone': Lőrinc Szabó and the Biopoetical Beginnings of Modern Poetry (Ernő Kulcsár Szabó) -- Chapter 14. Of Mice and Men: Dissolution and Reconstruction of 'Nature's Larger Scheme': Burns, Mészöly, Kertész (Tamás Lénárt) -- Chapter 15. Towards a Literary Entomology: Arthropods and Humans in William H. Gass (Gábor Tamás Molnár) -- Chapter 16. Biophilology and the Metabolism of Literature (Susanne Strätling).

"The political aspect of this 'Global Rise of Indigenous Languages' has become more and more pronounced not the least because of a democratizing process of social relations through the emergence of interrelated phenomena of multicultural society and globalization. However, the analysis of the current world order transcends the national boundaries. As borders are crossed and countries reshaped, attention to differences calls for a re-formulation of identities in the context of power relations, histories, and shaped memories. Interestingly, this book investigates the very essence of the 'modern' identity, using Feminist, postcolonial, and multicultural criticism to analyze the resurgence of cultural ethnic specificities. The intersection among linguistics, history, and literature illustrates the ongoing negotiation between the Eurocentric tradition and multiculturalism. Each article provides an outlet for non-Westerns and marginalized cultures and peoples to question the hegemonic Eurocentrism and provides an alternative critical view" -- Back cover

The dominant role of the realist paradigm in international relations theory has left little room for the study of the role of cultural variables in world politics. The two central tenets of the realist theoretical game-plan—the primacy of the sovereign state system, and the autonomy of that system, from domestic political, social and moral considerations—focus our attention on the vertical division of the world into sovereign states, rather than on the horizontal forces and ties that cut across state frontiers. The result is the metaphor for the interaction of states as the mechanical one of the billiard table, with power politics as the primary dynamic.