Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory

Depression and components of self-punitiveness: High standards, self-criticism, and overgeneralization.

Mind—body identity, privacy and categories

Current controversies about the Mind—Body Identity Theory form a case-study for the investigation of the methods practised by linguistic philosophers. Recent criticisms of these...

Whose Text? Whose Context?

After a brief account of an old study on sociopolitical vs formalist styles of literary criticism and the lessons it taught about relating cultural objects to context, I turn to...

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expr...