...Xiaoying Wang The Body That Puts the Mind on Trial XIAOYING WANG L roam through the Modern Language Association book exhibition (or thumb through some of the publishers' brochures distributed by the MLA) is, for a good part of the way, not unlike walking through a forest of "erotic bodies." Titles...

..., showing that he eventually came to use the example of the fetus to exemplify what he meant by the “union” of mind and body. Although Descartes is usually considered a dualist, particularly in feminist criticism, he took for granted that we experience ourselves as mind/body composites. The fetus presented...

..., and consonance) under his infamous mind-body dualism, Descartes invokes resonance to think through what is his most important project—to model the unity of body and mind. veit erlmann holds the Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent publication is Reason...

... international law to an updated endorsement of Kant's quest for perpetual cosmopolitan peace. With the problem of history and the relationship between temporality and the “cultural” disciplines such as philosophy in mind, the author updates Habermas's updating of Kant in a context of perpetual war that neither...

...-regulated by homeostatic principle—that is, a harmonious and nonrational self-governance—and no longer by a thinking mind governed by reason in a vertical relationship with a subject-body. If the current cultural moment of global capital and media has been repeatedly characterized as “posttheory...

... events. In this light, the author considers Kleinian notions of phantasy and biology, especially the effects hunger has on the formation of the mind in the very young infant. Reading with Melanie Klein's literal mindedness, the author suggests that the confluence of physiology and phantasy in Klein's...

... never really binaries. Nature and culture, body and mind, and subject and object are not opposing terms that need to be brought together but always already related terms whose relatedness must be—and, throughout the issue of difference s in which it appears, will be—unveiled. vicki kirby...

... desires for men. Hence, by the eighties, some feminists had reframed bad sex as rape, calling upon the state to police sex in lieu of changing women’s minds. In conclusion, the essay returns to the Ansari affair, taking Grace’s continued attachment to heterosexuality despite its disappointments...

... tended to emphasize his role in manufacturing narratives of postwar national innocence. By contrast, this essay reads Europa ’51 as offering a critique of the carceral state, though one that knows itself to be contained, disempowered, and confined. Mindful of the limits of this critique, the essay brings...

...Miglena Nikolchina This essay examines the entanglement of Galin Tihanov’s three regimes of relevance of literature—literature as art, literature as high-minded social engagement, and literature as popular entertainment—in the encounter between a literary theoretician (Tzvetan Todorov...

... and yet strictly binds together the two individuations that he calls psychique and collective , which is necessary, he argues, to avoid the double failure of psychologism and sociologism, by which he means the doctrines that assign a fixed (ontological) identity to man and his mind, on the one hand...

...Peter Goodrich Common law is predicated historically upon a sense of the common, of custom and use time out of mind. The legal tradition has its roots in a guild, an elite community whose common opinion and conversations provided the substance and sensibility of the normative. Remediation of law...

... of feelings, consisting of ephemera and “feelings”? Is it not with the future in mind that both the historian and the queer archivist insist on conserving documents and feelings alike? Such questions lead to a discussion on the importance of not giving up the Lacanian definition of the negative as applied...

... up, 2002 . 67 -98. Barkow, Jerome H. Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture. Toronto: u of Torontop, 1989 . Barkow, Jerome H., Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, eds. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Oxford: Oxford up, 1992...

... , and Abrahamsen Adele . Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks . Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1991 . Boyarin Daniel . “ Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Invention of Oedipus .” glq 2 ( 1995 ): 115 – 47 . Canfield...

... as Mandeville and Ludwig von Mises. Both drew inspiration from Spinoza’s epigrammatic utterance at the conclusion of the preface to Ethica 3: “I will therefore discuss the nature and force of the affects, as well as the power of the mind...

... of personal and social trauma. Aron, Lewis. A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis . Hillsdale: Analytic, 1996 . ____. “The Internalized Primal Scene.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 5.2 ( 1995 ): 195 -237. Aron, Lewis, and Jessica Benjamin. “Intersubjectivity and the Struggle to Think...

... and Gender Insubordination.” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories . Ed. Diana Fuss. New York: Routledge, 1991 . Chomsky, Noam. The Minimalist Program . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 1995 . ____. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind . New York: Cambridge UP, 2000 . ____. “A Review...

... that the prostitute provides modernism with an ideal site for holding in place two particular binaries or dualisms that ground traditional philosophy and aesthetics: mind/body and its alignment with male/female. The modernist and the prostitute become perfectly aligned with these two dualisms (male mind and female...

...://plato.stanford.edu/entries/indexicals/ . Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Friend . Vol. 1 . Essay 3. 1809 . Corazza, Eros. Reflecting the Mind . Oxford: Oxford up, 2004 . Davis, Erik. Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information . New York: Three Rivers, 1998 . Deacon, Terrence...