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Contributors esther leslie
teaches cultural studies at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto, 2000) and Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2001).
Austin harrington
teaches sociology at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas (Routledge, 2001) and The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weberʼs Replies to His Critics, 1907–1910 (Liverpool University Press, 2001).
Art & Language
is Michael Baldwin, Mel Ramsden, Charles Harrison. Their next major exhibition will be at Musée dʼart moderne Lille Métropole in January 2002.
Philip derbyshire
is currently a research degree student at Birkbeck College,
London, working on the reception of psychoanalysis in Argentina.
Sam coombes
is a writer based in Paris.
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Anne Brassier, Meeting Room, 2001Published by Radical Philosophy Ltd.www.radicalphilosophy.com
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2001COMMENTARY
Tate Modern: A Year of Sweet Success
Esther Leslie ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2ARTICLES
New German Aesthetic Theory: Martin Seel’s Art of Diremption
Austin Harrington ……………………………………………………………………………… 6
Roma Reason: Luhmann’s Art as a Social System
Art & Language ………………………………………………………………………………. 14
Homosexual Politics in the Wake of AIDS
Philip Derbyshire …………………………………………………………………………….. 22
A Revival of Sartre?
Sam Coombes ………………………………………………………………………………… 27REVIEWS
Ted Honderich, Philosopher: A Kind of Life
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 33
Peter Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory
Jean-Jacques Lecercle …………………………………………………………………….. 36
Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
Alessandra Tanesini …………………………………………………………………………. 39
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Neo-Avant-garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
Andrew Fisher ………………………………………………………………………………… 42
Stella Sandford, The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas
Robin Durie …………………………………………………………………………………….. 45
William Irwin, Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble, eds, The Simpsons and Philosophy: The Dʼoh! of Homer
Ben Watson …………………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Elliott L. Jurist, Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency
Nathan Widder ………………………………………………………………………………… 50
Keith M. Ashman and Philip S. Baringer, eds, After the Science Wars
Roger Harris ……………………………………………………………………………………. 52
Alex Callinicos, Equality