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Theoretical investigation into the place of historicization in humanistic thought, as well as into the complex, and often tense, relationship between history and theory.

Postmodernism is the expression of a profound contradiction: deterritorialization and a borderless world on the one hand, and, on the other, the return of nationalism and the exacerbation of the gap between the `developed' and the `underdeveloped' worlds. The freedom that is associated with postmodernism is, in fact, an abject surrender to the dominance of capitalism. This essay argues that the significance of postmodernism has to be determined globally and world-historically and not merely within the confines of the metropolitan West. Secure in its dominance, postmodernism travels the world over in the name of knowledge, theory and epistemology. The pervasive epistemics of the `post-' sanctions the domination of other knowledges by the knowledge of the West. In a world polarized into the West and the Rest, the rest of the world has the ethico-political responsibility as well as authority to ensure that postmodernism does not mandate itself as the universal human condition.

Decries implicit claims on the part of Western interpreters that the Western perspective constitutes a stable Archimedian point for understanding the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe. The ideological syncreticism of Vaclav Havel (1986), which, with its orientation toward Western liberal democracy, has met with almost universal approval in the West, is critically scrutinized. 16 References. A. Levine

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) are ubiquitous respiratory viral pathogens. They belong to the family Paramyxoviridae (subfamily Pneumovirinae) and is responsible for acute respiratory tract infections in children, elderly and immunocompromised patients. We designed and tested a multiplex reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (mRT-PCR) as a cost-effective alternative to real-time PCR and cell culture based detection for HMPV and HRSV. The newly developed PCR was used to screen nasal/throat swab samples from 356 patients with suspected acute respiratory infection attending the Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The method was compared with a commercially available kit employing real time PCR, for its sensitivity and specificity. 53 (14.9 %) samples were positive for at least one tested pathogen by mRT-PCR. All except one among the positive samples showed similar pathogen profile when tested using real time PCR. 8 (15.1 %) among these 53 were positive for HRSVA, 33 (62.3 %) positive for HRSVB and 12 (22.6 %) were positive for HMPV. 17 (32.7 %) samples showed co-infections in them. Sensitivity and specificity of the mRT-PCR was comparable to that of the commercial kit. Our findings indicate that this newly developed mRT-PCR can be used as a cost-effective alternative for laboratory diagnosis of HMPV/HRSV infection and will significantly reduce diagnostic costs for these viruses in clinical settings.

Introduction / Kailash C. Baral -- Jacques Derrida's legacy : democracy to come / Fred Dallmayr -- Quoting time : notes on Derrida's 'Ousia et Grammè' / Bernard Sharratt -- Platonism, Spinoza and the history of deconstruction / Gordon Hull -- 'Sociology over philosophy'? 'Artificial Paradoxes'? : Derrida and Bourdieu, ethical subjectivity and the gift / Jon Baldwin -- Before and after Glas : approximations to the Cognitio Vespertina / Silvano Facioni -- Perhaps the impossible, therefore, will have been necessary : reflections before friendship / Peter Zeillinger -- Cosmopolitanism after Derrida : city, signature and sovereignty / Puspa Damai -- The Generation of the I / Gianfranco Dalmasso -- Derrida and religious reflection in the Continental tradition / Eric Boynton -- On following without following : deconstructing a notion of faithfulness in church practice / Natalie Roberts -- Derrida's deconstruction of logocentrism : implications for trauma studies / Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick -- Is translation a mode? / R. Radhakrishnan -- Derrida elsewhere : a mnemocultural dispersal / D. Venkat Rao -- Postscript : the philosopher that therefore he has to be / R. Radhakrishnan.