Commentary
The Sacralization of Secularism in Turkey
meyda yeg˘enog˘lu ……………………………………………………………………………….. 2
Secularism and Politics in Iran
morad Farhadpour ……………………………………………………………………………… 6articles: materials and materialisms 2
The Pig in the Bath: New Materialisms and Cultural Studies
michelle Henning ……………………………………………………………………………….11
The Incomplete Materialism of French Materialist Feminism
alison stone ……………………………………………………………………………………. 20
Sexmat, Revisited
stella sandford ………………………………………………………………………………… 28reviews
Antonio Negri, The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project
Knox Peden ……………………………………………………………………………………… 36
Pascale Casanova, Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary RevolutionAndrew Gibson, Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency
david cunningham …………………………………………………………………………… 40
Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture
Ken Hirschkop ………………………………………………………………………………….. 44
Dave Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity
christian Kerslake …………………………………………………………………………….. 46
Noel Castree and Derek Gregory, eds, David Harvey: A Critical Reader
Howard Feather ……………………………………………………………………………… 49
Pheng Chea, Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Françoise vergès ………………………………………………………………………………. 51news
A Haitian Boat Disaster
Peter Hallward …………………………………………………………………………………. 53letters
Schenkerians, Schenkerians
michael Graubart and Ben watson ……………………………………………………. 55contents145
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Contributors meyda yeğenoğlu
is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. She is the author of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Morad farhadpour
is a writer and translator, living and working in Iran. He is the author of Depressed Reason, The Western Winds and The Semiology of September 11 (with Yossef Abazari). His translations include works by Adorno, Agamben, Badiou, Benjamin,
Nietzsche and Tillich.
Michelle henning
teaches Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England,
Bristol. She is the author of Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (Open University Press, 2006).
Alison stone
is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University. She is the author of Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2004) and Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (CUP, 2006).
Stella sandford
is Principal Lecturer in Philosophy at Middlesex University, London.
She is the author of The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas (Athlone/Continuum, 2000) and How to Read Beauvoir (Granta, 2006).
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