1. Pheng Cheah is professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of “Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights” (2006) and “Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation” (2003), and has recently edited the forthcoming “Derrida and the Time of the Political” (with Suzanne Guerlac; Duke University Press, 2008).