Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' introduction -- Part I: Translation and its effects -- Novelistic desire, theoretical attitude, and translating heteroglossia : reading Natsume Soseki's Sanshiro with Naoki Sakai / Michael K. Bourdaghs -- Deixis, dislocation, and suspense in translation : Tawada Yoko's Bath / Brett de Bary -Politics as translation : Naoki Sakai and the critique of hermeneutics / John Namjun Kim -- The biopolitics of companion species : wartime animation and multi-ethnic nationalism / Thomas Lamarre -- Translating the image / Helen Petrovsky -- Part II: Economies of difference -- For a Communist ontology / William Haver -- Living in transition : toward a heterolingual theory of the multitude / Sandro Mezzadra -- Transition to a world society : Naoki Sakai's work in the context of capital imperialism / Jon Solomon -- Total war and subjectivity : economic ethics as a tajectory toward postwar / J. Victor Koschmann -- Part III: The modern west and its outside -- The western relation : the politics of humanism / Frederic Neyrat -- Modernization, modernity, and tradition : sociological theory's promissory notes / Andreas Langenohl -- Theologico-political militancy in Ignacio de Loyola's Ejercicios espirituales / Alberto Moreiras -- Interview with Naoki Sakai.