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Contributors roger harris
teaches philosophy at Middlesex University, and is the Dean of Students for the Enfield campus.
Stella sandford
currently teaches philosophy at the University of Essex and the University of North London.
Lorraine code
is Professor of Philosophy at York University, Ontario. Her books include Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on (Gendered) Locations (Routledge, 1995).
Jonathan rée
teaches philosophy at Middlesex University.
Michael löwy
works at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
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JAN/FEB 1998COMMENTARY
Dearing Boring: The Massification of Higher Education
Roger Harris ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2ARTICLES
Writing as a Man: Levinas and the Phenomenology of Eros
Stella Sandford …………………………………………………………………………………. 6
Rorty’s Nation
Jonathan Rée ………………………………………………………………………………….. 18
Feminists and Pragmatists: A Radical Future?
Lorraine Code ………………………………………………………………………………….. 22
Consumed by Night’s Fire: The Dark Romanticism of Guy Debord
Michael Löwy ………………………………………………………………………………….. 31REVIEWS
Tim Crane, The Mechanical MindFrank Jackson and David Braddon Mitchell, Philosophy of Mind and CognitionJaegwon Kim, Philosophy of MindGeorges Rey, Contemporary Philosophy of MindGalen Strawson, Mental RealityDavid J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental TheoryGregory McCulloch, The Mind and Its WorldIan Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Kathleen Lennon …………………………………………………………………………….. 35
John Richardson, Nietzscheʼs SystemPeter Poellner, Nietzsche and Metaphysics
Diana Coole …………………………………………………………………………………….. 39
Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
Jean-Jacques Lecercle …………………………………………………………………….. 41
John Anner, ed., Beyond Identity Politics: Emerging Social Justice Movements in Communities of Color
Sheila Rowbotham ………………………………………………………………………… 43
Karen Vintges, Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir
David Macey ……………………………………………………………………………………. 45
Mark Neocleous, Fascism
Tobias Abse ……………………………………………………………………………………. 46
Simon LeVay, Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality
Udo Schüklenk ……………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Colin Davis, Levinas: An IntroductionEmmanuel Levinas, Basic Philosophical Writings
Stella Sandford ……………………………………………………………………………….. 49
John Gray, Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought
Gideon Calder …………………………………………………………………………………. 51
Craig Beveridge and Ronnie Turnbull, Scotland After Enlightenment
Ellen-Raïssa Jackson ……………………………………………………………………….. 52
Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression