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...Monique Roelofs Kant’s famous Enlightenment article is a crucial but overlooked source for his aesthetics. This essay unlocks its aesthetic significance by scrutinizing the mode of address in which Kant grounds his enlightenment project. Enlightenment, for Kant, revolves around the address we...

... . The Straight Mind and Other Essays . Boston : Beacon , 1992 . ELLEN ROONEY What's the Story? Feminist Theory, Narrative, Address Our man, .then, is "behaving as if he were angry. " He scowls, let us say, and stamps his foot on the carpet. So far we may (or perhaps must?) still say "He is not (really...

... philosophical problem, can I give an account of myself ?, changes once we ask what prompts the question, to whom the answer is addressed, and in what time and space the “account” becomes an instrument or illumination of power. If any such account assumes a language saturated with social norms, then how...

...Elizabeth Grosz This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events...

..., “hospitality” appears as a way to question universalizing feminist proposals and their capacity to disrupt domestic and national orders. These “promises” are first addressed in a general way before being more precisely considered through the lens of the French “republican” model of politics and science...

...Ed Cohen In his last years lecturing at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault repeatedly alighted on the figure of the psychagogue as an exemplar of “living philosophy.” The psychagogue, in contradistinction to his confrere the pedagogue, addresses the truth by addressing the soul, the psyche...

...Sara Ahmed This essay takes up Judith Butler’s invitation to consider accounts of oneself as scenes of address by asking what follows when those accounts are complaints. Drawing on an empirical study of complaints made in universities, it examines how receiving complaints from others involves...

... arenas. Conventional understandings of international finance fail to address the complexities of who should repay sovereign state debt and whose assets should be collected in the event of nonpayment. For answers to these inquiries, the narrative of debt needs to be understood as embedded within...

..., as well as engaging the feminist theory of Judith Butler. While addressing such topics as globalization, terrorism, violence, and vulnerability, the question of ontology is central to the interview. Cavarero refines Arendt's perspective and emphasizes an ontology of singularity characterized...

..., and Derrida all address the problem of history and that the relations among these thinkers deserve more attention than their polemical reception has allowed, particularly with regard to attacks on psychoanalysis as ahistorical. © 2009 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural...

...Lyndsey Stonebridge Why is it that we respond to the deaths of others in wartime with an apparent indifference? What is it about our desire that so readily accommodates the representation of the death of others? This article addresses these questions through a reading of Freud's 1915 essay on war...

... that the concept has the potential to serve as a useful intervention into the work of Butler and, among others, Schelling. Although this potential is not directly addressed by Stone, the reading serves as an occasion to reflect on a number of interpretative questions concerning not only the tacit work that occurs...

... to an Academy'' (1919) addressed and fell victim to the aporias in our knowledge about what it means to be an animal and, consequently, a human. Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2010...

...; but to the extent that Stone maintains the primacy of sexual duality, her revision fails to address the claims of multiplicity on their own terms. In this paper, I interpret a passage from Marcel Proust's novel, Sodom and Gomorrah , in order to develop an alternative theory of sexual difference in which sexual...

.... As such, it is difficult to locate within a precise topography and may require us to rethink the conditions of address and reception at work in the notions of “acquisition” or “transmission.” This essay analyzes two of the examples that Mitchell offers for understanding the historical acquisition of unconscious ideas...

... of archaic societies, that is, the interdiction of same-blood marriage—the essay follows the subsequent historical “transubstantiations” of blood through theocracy and sovereignty to state and market capitalism. It concludes by addressing the contemporary biopolitical need for a racism—defined, following...

...Valerie Rohy Addressing the ways in which etiology, the science of causes, has come to dominate discussions of gay and lesbian politics, this essay examines traces of evolutionary theory in recent right-wing rhetoric against gay marriage from such organizations as the Family Research Council...

... mla Convention, pointing to how “bright” imagery refers to digital humanities not as a “solution,” but as a rallying point for hybrid scholars to address shared interests. Chun and Rhody demonstrate how the “dark side” of “the digital” is the “bright hope” that sustains the academy in the short term...

... (think Katrina, the Patriot Act, Wall Street) as a civil or civilian war within the United States that is everywhere present but is hardly recognizable as such. In addressing one essential area of governmentality—demographics—the author makes the case for a change in liberal governmental reason...

... of subjectivity, a theory of “bad subjects,” that attempts to address the aporias of interpellation by making room for disobedience and resistance. The essay develops the idea of a layered subjectivity based on the overdetermined effect of contingently sequenced subjectivations and countersubjectivations...