V. Y. Mudimbe is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Classics at Stanford University. He is also Distinguished Research Professor in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University.

• Introduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1Pre-Texts and Models Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29Case Studies Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45The Current Great Narrative of QuÉbecois Identity / Jocelyn LÉtourneau 59Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123Small Differences-Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143Post-Texts and Systems Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199Notes on Contributors 221Index 223

V. Y. Mudimbe is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Classics at Stanford University. He is also Distinguished Research Professor in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University.

• Introduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1Pre-Texts and Models Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29Case Studies Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45The Current Great Narrative of QuÉbecois Identity / Jocelyn LÉtourneau 59Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123Small Differences-Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143Post-Texts and Systems Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199Notes on Contributors 221Index 223

V. Y. Mudimbe is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Classics at Stanford University. He is also Distinguished Research Professor in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University.

• Introduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1Pre-Texts and Models Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29Case Studies Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45The Current Great Narrative of QuÉbecois Identity / Jocelyn LÉtourneau 59Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123Small Differences-Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143Post-Texts and Systems Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199Notes on Contributors 221Index 223