Modern societies, and the modern knowledge that was seen to be both an emblem a precipitating cause of their modernity, have long been as marking great historical advance. Modernity, we assured, by social sciences in general sociology particular, is not only different from premodernity contemporary nonmodern these differences are also signs intellectual, moral material progress. In recent times...

In this paper, we describe the results of an exercise in applying the source language analyzer from the KANT system (Mitamura, et al. 1991; Nyberg et al., 1998) to the English version of the workshop newspaper article. We briefly present the architecture of the KANT system and the Interlingua format used in KANT. We describe how we adapted the analyzer in order to produce an Interlingua for eac...

We study the distribution in space of the integral solutions to an integral decomposable form equation, by considering the images of these solutions under central projection onto a unit ball. If we think of the solutions as stars in the night sky, we ask what constellations are visible from the earth (the unit ball). Answers are given for a large class of examples which are then illustrated usi...

Antigone fascinates G. W. F. Hegel and Luce Irigaray, both of whom turn to her in their explorations and articulations of ethics. Hegel and Irigaray make these re-turns to Antigone through the double and related lenses of nature and sexual difference. This essay investigates these figures of Antigone and the accompanying ethical accounts of nature and sexual difference as a way of examining Iri...

other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of v...