In recent years, evidence has accumulated that the insect ventral body side equals the dorsal side of the vertebrates and that chordates, during their evolution, have inverted their dorsoventral body axis (Arendt and Nübler-Jung, 1994, 1997; Holley et al., 1995; De Robertis and Sasai, 1996). In insects and vertebrates, the equivalent ‘neural’ body sides give rise to a prominent brain and nerve ...

This Book Review offers an analogy between two forms of resistance to legal discrimination by marginalized minorities: singing the national anthem in Spanish on the streets of Los Angeles in the spring of 2006 by undocumented immigrants, and possible future public marriage ceremonies by LGBT people and other marriage outlaws. Based on the conceptual grounds laid by Judith Butler and Gayatri Spi...

O artigo trata do conceito de banalidade mal, Hannah Arendt, e sua relação com o experimento Stanley Milgram acerca da obediência.