Commentary
Who’s Afraid of Gay Parents?
Sylvie Duverger ………………………………………………………………………………… 2
Many Enemies, Much Honour: The Founding of The Left Party in Germany
albrecht von Lucke ……………………………………………………………………………. 9artiCLeS
The Absolute Artwork Meets the Absolute Commodity
Stewart martin ……………………………………………………………………………….. 15
The Impossibility of Gender in Narratives of China’s Modernity
Harriet evans …………………………………………………………………………………… 27DoSSier documenta 12 magazines
debacle
Introduction
………………………………………………………………………………….. 39
The Sublime Whiff of Criticality
radical Culture research Collective …………………………………………………. 40
Magazines Field, or, the Next Documenta Should be Curated by Magazines
Patricia Canetti with Leandro de Paula …………………………………………….. 43
The Big Lie
Dario Corbeira and irene montero ……………………………………………………. 45reviewS
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, A Marxist Philosophy of Language
Simon Jarvis ………………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Henri Alleg, The Question
David macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 52
Penelope J. Corfield, Time and the Shape of History
Harry Harootunian …………………………………………………………………………… 56
Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis and Slavoj Žižek, eds, Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth
Liam o’ruairc …………………………………………………………………………………. 60obituarieS
No Single Vision: Richard Rorty, 1931–2007
neil Gascoigne ………………………………………………………………………………… 62
Joseph McCarney, 1941–2007
Chris arthur …………………………………………………………………………………….. 66ContentS146
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Contributors sylvie duverger
is a doctoral student at the University of Paris X, Nanterre.
albrecht von lucke
is a lawyer, political scientist and editor of the monthly journal Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, www.blaetter.de. [archive]
Stewart martin
is Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Theory at Middlesex University.
Harriet evans
is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.
She is the author of The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Radical culture research collective
is a group of activists, artists, researchers and writers from Europe and North America.
Patricia canetti
is a multimedia artist, living and working between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. She created and supervises Canal Contemporâneo, a digital community focused on Brazilian contemporary art.
Leandro de paula
was content editor of the contributions by Canal Contemporâneo to Documenta 12 Magazines.
Dario corbeira and irene montero
are editors of the Spanish journal Brumaria.
Neil gascoigne
is Head of Humanities at Roehampton University. He is the author of Scepticism (Acumen, 2006) and Richard Rorty, Saint and Martyr (Polity, forthcoming).
Chris arthur
is the author of The New Dialectic and Marx’s Capital (Brill, 2002).
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