In this issue:

• Contents: 118 Contents Page

• Commentary: Shiny, happy people

  ‘Body Worlds’ and the commodification of health

  - Megan Stern

• Article: Oedipus as figure

  Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

• Article: The aesthetics of appearing

  Martin Seel

• Article: The cosmopolitan paradox: Response to Robbins

  With Reply to Chandler

  - David Chandler and Bruce Robbins

• Reviews: 118 Reviews

  Stewart Martin, Stella Sandford, Ted Benton, Ray Brassier, Chris Thompson, Nitin Govil and Rachel Malik

• Obituary: Norman O. Brown, 1913–2002

  Eli Zaretsky and Kristin Ross

• Conference Report: ‘Philosophy As…’ Philosophy Programme of the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, and the Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, Senate House, University of London, 28–30 November 2002

  Nickolas Lambrianou