Big city blues Table of Contents April 2014; 121 (1) Introduction: Big city blues Trevor Hogan and Julian Potter Abstract: The advent of the ‘mega’ or world city seems inseparable from the ambivalent and transient experience of modernity – the ideals of liberty, individuality, property, accelerating progress, and, for many, the realities of immobility,…
The time(s) of our lives Guest editors: Miriam Bankovsky, Toula Nicolacopoulos and George Vassilacopoulos Table of Contents Introduction: The time(s) of our lives: Contexts and critique Miriam Bankovsky,Toula Nicolacopoulos,and George Vassilacopoulos Articles: Reason, power and history: Re-reading the Dialectic of Enlightenment Amy Allen This paper re-examines the relationship between power, reason and history…
This issue brings together several essays in different fields of inquiry, from German Idealism to biopolitics. While they may appear to be disparate in their focus, the themes of autonomy, freedom, and identity nevertheless emerge as a common basic problematic. Rundell ventures into the arcane world of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge to plumb its depths…
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