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116NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002
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Contributors lynne segal
is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College,
University of London. She is a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians (www.jfjfp.org/campaigns.htm).
Chris thornhill
teaches German Studies at Kingʼs College, University of London.
He is the author of Karl Jaspers: Politics and Metaphysics (Routledge, 2002).
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).
Bruce robbins
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. His books include Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (New York University Press, 1999). Layout by Petra Pryke Tel: 020 7243 1464 Copyedited and typeset by Illuminati Tel: 01981 241164 Production by Stella Sandford, Peter Osborne and Stewart Martin Printed by Russell Press,
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Commentary
Jews in the Culture Wars
Lynne Segal ………………………………………………………………………………………..2ARTICLES
Systems Theory and Legal Theory: Luhmann, Heidegger and the False Ends of Metaphysics
Chris Thornhill …………………………………………………………………………………….7
Quartering the Millennium
Harry Harootunian …………………………………………………………………………….21
What’s Left of Cosmopolitanism?
Bruce Robbins …………………………………………………………………………………..30REVIEWS
Raya Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
Ben Watson ………………………………………………………………………………………38
Onora OʼNeill, Autonomy and Trust in BioethicsOnora OʼNeill, A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002
Joseph McCarney ……………………………………………………………………………..41
Phillip Goodchild, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of PietyHent de Vries, Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
Andrew McGettigan ………………………………………………………………………….43
Dave Beech, John Roberts, eds, The Philistine Controversy
Michael Sperlinger ……………………………………………………………………………46
Keith Ansell Pearson, Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of LifeHenri Bergson: Key Writings
Margarita Karkayanni ………………………………………………………………………..48
Gilles Deleuze, Lʼîle deserte et autres textes
David Reggio …………………………………………………………………………………….51
Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, The Animal Rights Debate
Phillip Cole ……………………………………………………………………………………….53CONFERENCE REPORT
Siegfried Kracauer, University of Birmingham, 13–14 September 2002