Subject Matters is a biannual publication which seeks to explore current thinking about subjectivity, to cross disciplinary boundaries and to challenge critical orthodoxy in the process. It is dedicated to debate on the nature of the subject and its various characterisations, especially in modernity.
Founding editors:
Jon Baldwin
Paul Cobley
Nick Haeffner
Wendy Wheeler
Email Subject Matters: subjectmatters@londonmet.ac.uk
Editorial board:
Seyla Benhabib, Timothy Bewes, Paul Richard Blum, Andrew Bowie, Anthony Cascardi, Simon Critchley, Drucilla Cornell, Marcel Danesi, John Deely, Anthony Elliott, Paul du Gay, Sandra Harding, Dieter Henrich, Axel Honneth, Erki Kilpinen, Alexandros Lagopoulos, Vicky Lebeau, Mandy Merck, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Augusto Ponzio, Anti Randviir, Horst Ruthrof, Ziauddin Sardar, Peter J. Schultz, Frederik Sternfelt, Eero Terasti.
Volume 1, number 1
Introduction: Subjectivity in question
Nick Haeffner: Enlightenment and post-enlightenment subjectivity
Paul Cobley: 'To be means to communicate'
Jon Baldwin: The ethical subject: Pierre Bourdieu and the gift
Jennifer Harding: Working on the self in the context of homelessness
Jean Collingsworth: Review of Alain Badiou: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Volume 1, number 2
Special edition: Alain Badiou's Ethics
Preface
Jon Baldwin: Beyond bodies, culture and language: an introduction to Alain Badiou
Jon Baldwin: Don't worry, be happy: on 'Ethics as a figure of nihilism'
Nick Haeffner: The ethics of truth
Paul Cobley: How to be evil
Peter Schultz: Subjectivity before and after Badiou
Response to Peter Schultz
Stephen Hughes: Review of Derrida (dirs. Dick and Kaufman, 2003)
Jean Collingsworth: Review of Frank Furedi: Therapy Culture
Volume 2, number 1
Special edition: Badiou and Subjectivity
Nick Haeffner: Introduction
Jason Barker: Badiou's suggestions for a better discussion of Platonism in mathematics
Matthew Wilkens: Events as dual and narrative entities in Deleuze and Badiou
Nina Power: What is generic humanity: Badiou and Feuerbach
Simon Critchley: Faultlines: in discussion on Alain Badiou
Nick Haeffner: Afterword
Volume 2, number 2
John Beynon: "Lies" or "identity projects"?: inmate narratives in HMP Cityton
Susan Petrilli: Crossing out boundaries with global communications: the problem of the self
Kristian Bankov: A serio-temporal analysis of identity based on a typology of memory
Stuart Murray: The body of free spech: risk and rhetorical practice of parrhesia
Merja Beuters: Semiosis of target groups: Peirce, Mead and the subject
Rob Cover: review of Donald E. Hall: Subjectivity
Jane Jones: review of Luce Irigary: Between East and West
Jon Baldwin: Review of Benjamin Noys: The Culture of Death
Volume 3, number 1
Paul Cobley: Preface
Augusto Ponzio: The I questioned: Emmanuel Levinas and the critique of occidental reason
Adam Zachary Newton: The I's double answer
Michael B. Smith: A critique of reason and autochthonos heteronomy
Robert Bernasconi: The defection of identity
Graham Ward: Kenosis and the problem of analogy
Roger Burggraeve: From the self to the other and back to the self - otherwise Levinas' redefinition of the subject
Bettina Bergo: Logic versus culture, some remarks on Quebec
William Paul Simmons: Concrete abstractions and the Rights of Man
Annette Aronowicz: Levinas and politics