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Preliminary Material /Medardus Brehl, Andreas Eckl and Kristin Platt --Preface /Medardus Brehl, Andreas Eckl and Kristin Platt --The Mediterranean Other: Introduction /Medardus Brehl, Andreas Eckl and Kristin Platt --Constructing the Idea of "Identity" in the Mediterranean: Patterns and Practices /Kristin Platt --Routes, Migrations, Stories. Counter-Cultural Discourses from Multicultural Theatre in Italy /Cristina Balma-Tivola --Moving Stories – Roma and the Oral Tradition of a Transnational People /Julia Blandfort --Cosmopolitanism: The Mediterranean Archives /Paolo Giaccaria --The 'Other' in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Crusaders and their Varying Images of the Muslims in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin /Shlomo Lotan --Zingarella or how Mediterranean and Gypsy Merged. The Story of a Certain Musical Genre /Anna G. Piotrowska --Ithaca Revisited – Homer's Odyssey and the (Other) Mediterranean Imagination /Christopher Schliephake --Thinking through the Diaspora: Anthropologies of Mobility across the Mediterranean /Paul A. Silverstein --The Mediterranean Cult of the Seven Sleepers: Counter-Narrative vs Official Representation in Islamic Devotion /Anna Tozzi di Marco --Narrating the History of the Other(s). The Near East in European Historiographical Accounts of the 19th and 20th Centuries /Felix Wiedemann --Bibliography /Medardus Brehl, Andreas Eckl and Kristin Platt.

De Beauvoir and Irigaray are archetypes of two opposed feminisms: egalitarian feminism and radical feminism of difference. Yet a filiation exists between de Beauvoir's claim, that women is Other, and Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. This paper explores the relationship between de Beauvoir's and Irigaray's notion of otherness. It argues that Irigaray deforms de Beauvoir's categories, and that de Beauvoir provides a more coherent prospect for the development of an authentic feminine subjectivity.

Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, there is - but in the absence of a radical leftist project, this subject has in the past transferred, and in many instances is still transferring, his/her support to the radical politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum. The combination of on the one hand a globally expanding industrial reserve army, generating ever more intense competition in the labour markets of capitalism, and on the other the endorsement by many on the left not of class but rather of non-class identities espoused by the `new' populist postmodernism, has fuelled what can only be described as a perfect storm, politically speaking