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Contributors harry harootunian
is Director of the Program in East Asian Studies and Professor of History at New York University. His books include Historyʼs Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life (Columbia University Press, 2000) and Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Sean homer
teaches psychoanalysis and English literature at Sheffield University. He is the author of Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism (Polity, 1998) and editor of the forthcoming Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader (Palgrave).
Diana coole
teaches politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her most recent book is Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2000).
Mark neocleous
teaches in the Department of Government at Brunel University.
His most recent book is The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power (Pluto, 2000).
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JULY/AUGUST 2001COMMENTARY
Out of Japan: The New Associationist Movement
Harry Harootunian ……………………………………………………………………………… 2ARTICLES
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! On `´Zi`´zek’s Marxism
Sean Homer ………………………………………………………………………………………. 7
Thinking Politically with Merleau-Ponty
Diana Coole ……………………………………………………………………………………… 17
The Fate of the Body Politic
Mark Neocleous ……………………………………………………………………………….. 29REVIEWS
Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
Swasti Mitter …………………………………………………………………………………… 40
Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy Tony Smith, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production
Christopher J. Arthur ……………………………………………………………………….. 43
Stanley Cohen, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
Lynne Segal ……………………………………………………………………………………… 45
Couze Venn, Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity
David Cunningham …………………………………………………………………………… 46
Andrew Benjamin, Architectural Philosophy
Jeremy Till ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous OutcastsElizabeth Wilson, The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture
Ben Highmore ………………………………………………………………………………….. 51
Ruth Abbey, Charles Taylor
Arto Laitinen ……………………………………………………………………………………. 52
Julian Young, Heideggerʼs Philosophy of Art
Jonathan Rée …………………………………………………………………………………… 54NEWS
Hegemony or Socialism?