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A symposium paper on Moishe Postone's Time, Labor and Social Domination that focuses on two of the book's core assertions. First is Postone's claim that capital is the self-constituted "Subject" of our era, with "Subject" & its impetus understood in the Hegelian sense, a point that is thoroughly persuasive. Second is Postone's insistence that the necessary critique not be based in the social perspective of the proletariat, which is only half as convincing. Thus, while all of his claims about the necessity of "labor" as a category for the existing social whole are valid, none of them rule out the proletariat from shaping itself counter to capital, & from active resistance to wage slavery. 15 References. K. Coddon

PART I: OBJECTS -- Introduction -- 1: I Touch What I Saw -- 2: Non-particular Individuals -- 3: On Perceiving Properties -- 4: Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, and Seeing Things Called 'Daffodils' -- 5: Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism -- 6: Idealist Refutations of Idealism -- 7: Externality, Difference and Inherence -- 8: Is This a Dream? -- 9: The Object to the Verb: The Case of the Accusative -- PART II: SUBJECTS -- 10: On Referring to the First Person -- 11: The Self at Other Times and In Other Bodies -- 12: Does Self Awareness Turn the Self Into an Object? -- 13: In Defense of an Inner Sense -- 14: Our Knowledge and Error About Our Own Cognitions -- 15: Fictionalism About the Mental -- 16: Nyaya Proofs for the Existence of the Self -- PART III: OTHER SUBJECTS -- 17: Knowing You From the Bridge -- 18: The Grammar of Calling the Other -- 19: Knowing From the Words of Others -- 20: Can Another Person Teach Me What It Means? -- 21: Shadows of Ignorance -- 22: Concept Possession, Sense Experience and Knowledge of a Language -- 23: On What There Will Be -- 24: Is There a World Out There? God Knows! -- 25: Absence, Non-Existence and Other Negative Things -- Bibliography -- Index

"This book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in East-West 'fusion' philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness. Together with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, Chakrabarti demonstrates the advantage of doing philosophy in a cosmopolitan fashion. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of a thing, and ending with an analysis of the concept of nothing, Realisms Interlinked offers a preview of a future metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind without borders"--

This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work's primary focus on contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the light not only of the 'death' of the classical subject but also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete. Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and death.

A vigilant subject foregrounds the terrorist event, working immanently to its development and disrupting its realisation. Individuals are tasked with spotting the antecedents of future attacks in the present so as to ward off catastrophe and with being mindful of processes of radicalisation so as to counsel against extremism. A vigilant subject monitors others – as much as himself or herself – according to proscribed conduct, while at the same time he or she co-evolves with uncertainty in order to prevent emergent threats: be they those yet to materialise (signs of an attack) or yet to be even thought of (signs of radicalisation). This vigilant subject is explored through two cases: the British Transport Police campaign to make commuters aware of, and report, terror-related activity and the Prevent duty that asks university staff to limit students being drawn into terrorism.

A reflection on the ever-broadening debates between the proponents of universalism & particularism focuses on the emerging ambivalence in the central categories & the political implications of these discourses in interaction. Under the banner of democratic multicultural pluralism, the intervention of alternative postmodernist approaches into conventional Western imperialist foundationalism, traceable to the primacy of universalist values for the Enlightenment, is reflexively aware of the ultimately nihilist futility implied in a politics of pure difference. After sketching critiques of structural essentialism & foundationalism, & contributions to the debate by thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, Plato, & G. W. F. Hegel, it is argued that the continual adjustment toward openness by the particular represents its only possible avenue to complete realization confronted with the universal. 23 References. J. Sadler

Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual identity, or "coming out," blinds researchers to negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the confession. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant homosexual men living in New York City, this article proposes the concept of tacit subjects to suggest that gay men and those close to them may be complicit in relegating information about a person's sexuality to the realm of what is tacit and/or understood. By stressing the structural and relational variables that people negotiate as they sustain their family and other kin networks, the concept of tacit subjects underlines the collaborative nature of identity negotiation and the forms of knowledge that make social collectivities viable.