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Table of Contents

    The Third World as a
    Philosophical Problem                                              Vittorio Hosle                                                227

    Social Categories and Claims in
    the Liberal State                                                        Paul Starr                                                    263

    Liberty, Equality, and Diversity:
    Some Reflections on Rorty                                        Frederic Schick                                            297

    The Politics of Abstractions:
    Instrumental and Moralist
    Rhetorics in Public Debate                                        James M. Jasper                                           315

    A Stereotype of the West in
    Postpartition Poland                                                 Jerzy Jedlicki                                                 345

    The Rise and Decline of Survey
    Sociology in Poland                                                Antoni Sutek                                                    365

    The Ambiguous Meanings of
    Latin American Populisms                                       Carlos de la Torre                                           385

    Settling Accounts with Blood
    Memory: The Case of Argentina                             Carina Perelli                                                   415

    On "Psychoanalysis and                                         Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and
    Feminism"                                                             Laura Wexler                                                      453
 
 

Carlos de la Torre is a doctoral candidate at the New School for Social Research.

Vittorio Hosle is professor of philosophy at the University of Tubingen.

James M. Jasper teaches in the Department of Sociology at New York Univesity.  His most recent book, written with Dorothy Nelkin, is The Animal Rights Crusade (1992).

Jerzy Jedlicki is a professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Carina Perelli is connected with the Peitho Society of Political Analysis in Montevideo.

Frederic Schick is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University.  His most recent book is Understanding Action (1991).

Paul Starr, professor of sociology at Princeton University, is the author of The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982).

Antoni Sulek is associate professor in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw and vice president of the Polish Sociological Association.

Laura Wexler is assistant professor of American and women's studies at Yale University.  Her Pregnant Pictures will be published next year.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a visiting professor at Haverford College.  Her most recent book is Creative Characters (1991).