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Articles
Introducing…Vittorio Hösle
PAMELA J. REEVE and ANTONIO CALCAGNO

The European Union and the U.S.A.: Two Complementary Versions of Western “Empires”?
VITTORIO HÖSLE

Review Essay: A Metaphysical History of Atheism
VITTORIO HÖSLE

Moralité et affectivité
MARIE-ANDRÉE RICARD

Les vestiges du donné (Apparaître, apparences, aspects)
JOCELYN BENOIST

De l’ “inter-attention” à l’attention inter-relationnelle. Le croisement de l’attention et de l’intersubjectivité à la lumière de l’attention conjointe
NATALIE DEPRAZ

Autobiography-Heterobiography, Philosophy and Religion in Derrida
FRANCESCO TAMPOIA

VOLUME 10 (2009) ISSUE 2

**SPECIAL ISSUE**
Ethics of Commitment and Politics of Resistance:
Simon Critchley’s Neo-Anarchism
Edited by Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio

Contents

Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance: Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio

On Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Alain Badiou
 
Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Robert Sinnerbrink
 
“Critchley is Zizek”: In Defence of Critical Political Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe

The Common Root of Commitment, Resistance and Power
Karin de Boer
 
Speaking to the People: Critchley, Rousseau and the Deficit in Practical Rationality
Philip A. Quadrio
 
Which Anarchism? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infinity for (Political) Life: A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Nina Power
 
A Plea for Prometheus
Alberto Toscano
 
Humorous Commitments and Non-Violent Politics: A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Fiona Jenkins
 
Mystical Anarchism
Simon Critchley

Jacques Rancière: in Disagreement
Paul Bowman; Richard Stamp

Conjunctive Times, Disjointed Time: Philosophy between Enigma and Disagreement
Sudeep Dasgupta

Politics without Politics
Jodi Dean

Politics after Aesthetics: Disagreeing with Rancière
David Ferris

Heteroreductives – Rancière’s disagreement with ontology
Bram Ieven

Which Equality? Badiou and Rancière in Light of Ludwig Feuerbach
Nina Power

JR cinéphile, or the philosopher who loved things
Adrian Rifkin

‘A literary animal’: Rancière, Derrida, and the Literature of Democracy
Mark Robson

When Does Politics Happen?
Paulina Tambakaki

A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière

July 2009 Volume 14 Number 2, pp 109 – 212

Constructing the enemy-other: Anxiety, trauma and mourning in the narratives of political conflict

Jeffrey Stevenson Murer

Ideology and identity: A psychoanalytic investigation of a social phenomenon

R D Hinshelwood

Psychoanalysis and ideology: Comment on R.D. Hinshelwood

Yannis Stavrakakis

Killing and dying for the sacred object: Commentary on R.D. Hinshelwood, ‘Ideology and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of a Social Phenomenon’

Richard Koenigsberg

Ideology, psyche and the historical significance of 9/11

Nancy Caro Hollander

Subjectivity, identity and 300 Spartans

Stacey Scriver

‘I felt a funeral in my brain’: The politics of representation in HBO’s Six Feet Under

Sophie Smith

Introduction to the special issue on continental philosophy of law — Nick Smith

The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau — Simon Critchley

The dedifferentiation problem — Pierre Schlag

Bodies against the law: Abu Ghraib and the war on terror — Kelly Oliver

Overblocking autonomy: the case of mandatory library filtering software — Gordon Hull

Commodification in law: ideologies, intractabilities, and hyperboles — Nick Smith

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Feminist political philosophy is an area of philosophy focused on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is usually construed, often without any attention to feminist concerns, and to articulating how political theory might be reconstructed in a way that advances feminist concerns. Feminist political philosophy is a branch of both feminist philosophy and political philosophy. As a branch of feminist philosophy, it serves as a form of critique or a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricœur 1970). That is, it serves as a way of opening up or looking at the political world as it is usually understood and uncovering ways in which women and their current and historical concerns are poorly depicted, represented, and addressed. As a branch of political philosophy, feminist political philosophy serves as a field for developing new ideals, practices, and justifications for how political institutions and practices should be organized and reconstructed.

While feminist philosophy has been instrumental in critiquing and reconstructing many branches of philosophy, from aesthetics to philosophy of science, feminist political philosophy may be the paradigmatic branch of feminist philosophy because it best exemplifies the point of feminist theory, which is, to borrow a phrase from Marx, not only to understand the world but to change it (Marx and Engels 1998). And, though other fields have effects that may change the world, feminist political philosophy focuses most directly on understanding ways in which collective life can be improved. This project involves understanding the ways in which power emerges and is used or misused in public life (see the entry on feminist perspectives on power). As with other kinds of feminist theory, common themes have emerged for discussion and critique, but there has been little in the way of consensus among feminist theorists on what is the best way to understand them. This introductory article lays out the various schools of thought and areas of concern that have occupied this vibrant field of philosophy for the past thirty years.

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