We are pleased to release the June 2008 Issue of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy

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KRITIKE VOLUME TWO NUMBER ONE (JUNE 2008)

1. Editorial: Marking the First Year of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy - The Editor

Articles:

2. Interruptions: Derrida and Hospitality - Mark W. Westmoreland

3. Iris Murdoch’s The Bell: Tragedy, Love, and Religion - Kenneth Masong

4. ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die?’ - Saitya Brata Das

5. A Comparative Study on the Theme of Human Existence in the Novels of Albert Camus and F. Sionil Jose - F. P. A. Demeterio

6. The War on Concepts: The Thought of Jan Patocka and the War on Terror - Katy Scrogin

7. Mass Mentality, Culture Industry, Fascism - Saladdin Said Ahmed

8. The Causal Relevance and Heterogeneity of Program Explanations in the Face of Explanatory Exclusion - Wilson Cooper

9. A Freewheeling Defense of Kant’s Resolution of the Third Antinomy - Todd D. Janke

10. The Structures of Perception: An Ecological Perspective - Michael James Braund

Book Reviews :

11. Powell, Jason, Jacques Derrida: A Biography - Marko Zlomislic

12. Evans, C. Stephen, Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays - Robert C. Cheeks

13. Drake, David, Sartre and Bernasconi, Robert, How to Read Sartre - Marella Ada Mancenido

Articles

“To use a metaphor at a time like this would be obscene”: a study of cancer, poetry and metaphor
Cathy Altmann

Burning Down the [Big] House: Sati in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary
Frances Botkin

Wounded Space: Law, Justice and Violence to the Land
Jennifer Coralie

Seeing Stars: Reading Melancholy and Power at Madame Tussauds through the Lens of Hiroshi Sugimoto
Elizabeth Howie

Concrete Containment in Late Capitalism, Mysticism, the Marquis de Sade, and Phenomenological Anthropology
Apple Igrek

“Edging Back Into Awareness”; How Late it Was, How Late, Form, and the Utopian Demand
Dougal McNeill

Crisis of Memory

Traumatic Memory and Holocaust Testimony: Passing Judgement in Representations of Chaim Rumkowski
Adam Brown

Recreating Postmemory? Children of Holocaust Survivors and the
Journey to Auschwitz
Esther Jilovsky

Blurring the Boundaries: History, Memory and Imagination in the Works of W G Sebald
Diane Molloy

Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism

Russian Aesthetics under Capitalism: An Introduction — Yulia Tikhonova

Why I Am a Marxist — Vladislav Sofronov

The Theory of Marxism: Questions and Answers — Vladislav Sofronov; Fredric Jameson; Jack Amariglio; Yahya M. Madra

The Karl Marx School of the English Language — David Riff

You Can’t Anticipate Explosions: Jacques Rancière in Conversation with Chto Delat — Jacques Rancière; Artemy Magun; Dmitry Vilensky; Alexandr Skidan

Profanation of the Profane, or, Giorgio Agamben on the Moscow Biennale — Alexei Penzin

The Story of Angry Sandwich People, or, In Praise of Dialectics — David Riff; Dmitry Vilensky

Legally Soviet: A Conversation — Yevgeniy Fiks; Olga Kopenkina

Foucault, Marxism, and the Cuban Revolution: Historical and Contemporary Reflections — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Foucault and the “New Man”: Conversations on Foucault in Cuba — Sam Binkley; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Massive Change: The Exhibit as Apology for “New Capitalism” — Lauren Langman

From Principle to Context: Marx versus Nozick and Rawls on Distributive Justice — Xiaoping Wei

Development, Capitalism, and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on the Cooperative Principle — Anjan Chakrabarti; Anup Kumar Dhar

Table of Contents:

Editors’ Introduction

“We are all torturers now”: Accountability After Abu Ghraib — Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Necessary Interruption: Traces of the Political in Levinas — Erica Weitzman

Lethal Freedom: Divine Violence and the Machiavellian Moment — Michael Dillon

Event or Exception?: Disentangling Badiou from Schmitt, or, Towards a Politics of the Void — Colin Wright

Imagining Extraordinary Renditions: Terror, Torture and the Possibility of an Excessive Ethics in Literature — Nathan Gorelick

This is the first bilingual online edition of Krisis, journal for contemporary philosophy, after having appeared in print, and in Dutch, for 27 years. We present contributions to four debates. Menno Hurenkamp and Jan-Willem Duyvendak reflect on the question how we can think ‘community’ in today’s Netherlands.

Further, Krisis dedicates a ‘file’ to the recent book of Veit Bader, Secularism or Democracy; Associational Governance of Religious Diversity. He defends the thesis that secularism is not a condition of liberalism and democracy, as many contemporary defenders of ‘The Enlightenment’ contend. Instead, secularism may even partly stand in the way of liberal democracy. After a short introduction to the book by Bader, three critics (Anders Berg-Sørensen, Irena Rosenthal and Anton van Harskamp) present their responses to the book, and Bader replies.

We also publish two pieces by Josef Früchtl and Mieke Bal that formed the basis for a by now rather legendary debate held in March this year about the relation between philosophy and cultural analysis.

Finally, we publish an interview with Jacques Rancière, a representant of the generation of 1968 whose recent rethinking of the relation between aesthetics and politics appears to have revived the relationship between this old couple. Lastly, impressions and reviews. Reactions are welcome at info@krisis.eu.

http://www.krisis.eu

Jappe Groenendijk
Editorial assistant

TOC

The time of hybridity — Simone Drichel

Arendt and Nietzsche on responsibility and futurity — Rosalyn Diprose

Levinas, Habermas and modernity — Nicholas H. Smith

Antinomies of transcritique and virtue ethics: An Adornian critique — Giuseppe Tassone

A law’s tale: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Gertrud Koch

From avenging to revolutionary force: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Hauke Brunkhorst

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Literary Theory in an Age of Globalization — Ihab Hassan

The Dramatic Sources of Philosophy — Amelie Oksenberg Rorty

Art and Evolution: Spiegelman’s The Narrative Corpse — Brian Boyd

Did God Deprive Pharaoh of Free Will? — Don Levi

The Worst Case of Knowing the Other?: Stanley Cavell and Troilus and Cressida — David Hillman

Literature, Politics, and Character — Oliver Conolly and Bashshar Haydar

Plot Taxonomies and Intentionality — Jon Adams

How Few Words Can the Shortest Story Have? — Amihud Gilead

“A little throat cutting in the meantime”: Seneca’s Violent Imagery — Amy Olberding

Of Literary Universals: Ninety-Five Theses — Patrick Colm Hogan

And more

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All Aboard for Copenhagen! — Joel Kovel

Ecosocialism, Global Justice, and Climate Change — Joel Kovel

The Liberal Foundations of Environmentalism: Revisiting the Rockefeller-Ford Connection — Michael Barker

Pondering Another Possible World — Robert Nichols

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Metaphor: James Lovelock’s Revenge of Gaia — John Clark

Art and Environmentalist Practice — Kavita Philip

Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India and the Chief Ministers of the States of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal, Tripura and West Bengal — Kavita Philip

History and Hope from the Present Moment: Peter McLaren and Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy — Samuel Day Fassbinder

Beyond the Bowers-McLaren Debate: The Importance of Studying the Rest of Nature in Forming Alternative Curricula — Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

Ecofeminist Cosmology in Practice: Genesis Farm and the Embodiment of Sustainable Solutions — Phoebe C. Godfrey

Reclaiming the Good Life (Now!) — Jane Hindley

JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Finitude: History & Politics

ANTONIO CALCAGNO: Michel Henry’s Non-Intentionality Thesis and Husserlian Phenomenology

FABIO PRESUTTI: Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and the ‘Idea of Language’ in the Synthesis of ‘Being’

BETH LORD: The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant’s Opus Postumum

JAMES N. McGUIRK: Aletheia and Heidegger’s Transitional Readings of Plato’s Cave Allegory

TRACY COLONY: The Wholly Other: Being and the Last God in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy

FARHANG ERFANI: Fixing Marx with Machiavelli: Claude Lefort’s Democratic Turn

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The Narration of Collective Trauma: The “True Story” of Jasper, Texas — Kalina Brabeck and Ricardo Ainslie

“Two Brotherless Peoples”: On the Constitutive Traumas of Class Struggle — Akis Gavriilidis

Psychotherapy and Political Activism: Examining The Israeli–palestinian Case — Nissim Avissar

Other Pasts: Family Romances of Pan’s Labyrinth — Janet Thormann

The Notion of the Work of Culture in Freud’s Writings — Eric Smadja