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Volume 70 No. 2 (Summer 2003) Arien Mack, Editor |
Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Ordering information
Unlike most of our volumes, this is one of those occasionally recurring issues that has no single theme. However, although the papers that follow bear no particular thematic relation to each other, all but four do have a different kind of connection: seven of the papers that appear in the first section ar written by my colleagues at the Graduate Faculty. They are introduced by remarks made by John Hollander at the New School University's Sixty-seventh Commencement Ceremony on May 21, 2003, at which he received a much-deserved honorary degree. This section also includes an interview conducted in 1990 with Hans Jonas, who was a member of the Philosophy Department from 1955 to 1976. We publish it to commemorate the centennial of his birth, and as a token of our respect dedicate this issue to his memory.
Arien Mack
Editor
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| JOHN HOLLANDER | Remarks at New School University's Sixty-seventh Commencement Ceremony |
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| Special Section: Papers by and about New School Graduate Faculty Members | |
| HARVEY SCODEL | An Interview with Professor Hans Jonas |
| ALICE CRARY | Wittgenstein's Pragmatic Strain |
| J. M. BERNSTEIN | Love and Law: Hegel's Critique of Morality |
| COURTNEY JUNG | The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Neoliberalism, Cultural Rights, and the Mexican Zapatistas |
| DAVID PLOTKE | Democracy and Groups |
| ELZBIETA MATYNIA | Provincializing Global Feminism: The Polish Case |
| ANWAR SHAIKH | Who Pays for the "Welfare" in the Welfare State? A Multicountry Study |
| ADRIANA PETRYNA | Science and Citizenship Under Postsocialism |
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| GEORGE KATEB | Undermining the Constitution |
| CHARLES TILLY | Political Identities in Changing Polities |
| NICK HASLAM | Folk Psychiatry: Lay Thinking about Mental Disorder |
| DOMINIQUE MEMMI | Governing Through Speech: The New State Administration of Bodies |
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J. M. Bernstein is University Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty, New School University. He is the author of Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2001), and he edited and wrote the introduction to Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (2003). His paper in this issue is part of a work in progress provisionally entitled Moral Inquiry.
Alice Crary is
Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty, New School
University.
She has published articles on moral psychology, meta-ethics, philosophy
and literature, feminist theory, J. L. Austin, Wittgenstein, and other
issues and figures. She is a coeditor of The
New Witgenstein (2000) and is currently writing a book on ethics
entitled The Moral Life of
Language.
Nick Haslam is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has written extensively on psychiatric classification and on categorization.
John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. He has written sixteen volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is Picture Window (2003), and seven books of criticism, including The Work of Poetry (1997). He has edited or coedited numerous books, written books for children, and collaborated on operatic and lyric works.
George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, and Director of the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture, winner of the 1994 Spitz Book Prize by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, and Emerson and Self-Reliance.
Courtney Jung is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University. She is the author of Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition, 1980-1995 (2000).
Elzbieta Matynia is Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the Graduate Faculty, New School University. Her most recent publications include "Furnishing Democracy," East European Politics and Society (Winter 2001).
Dominique Memmi is Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS-Paris). Her most recent book, Faire vivre et laisser mourir. Le gouvernement contemporain de la naissance et de la mort (2003), deals with contemporary regulations regarding decisions concerning life, death, and the body.
Adriana Petryna is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty and Eugene Lang College, New School University. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (2002) and is coeditor of a forthcoming book, Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices .Studies. She is the author of numerous publications and also a regular contributor to the annual UNDP publication "Latvia. Human Development Report."
David Plotke is Chair
of
Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School
University.
His recent publications include Democracy
and Boundaries: Themes in Contemporary American Politics and
"The Success and Anger of the Modern American Right," the introduction
to a new edition of The Radical
Right (Bell, ed., 2000). He is finishing Democratic
Breakup: From the Civil Rights Act to the End of the Democratic Order.
Harvey Scodel holds a masters degree in Philosophy from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an M.B.A. from the same institution. He is the author of Diaeresis and Myth in Plato's Statesman (1987). He works as a commercial real estate appraiser in San Francisco.
Anwar Shaikh is a Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty, New School University. He has been recently writing on the long-term determinants of inflation in advanced economies. His recent publications include "Is Personal Debt Sustainable?" (coauthored with Papadimitriou et al., 2002) and published by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Politics of Collective Violence (2003).
