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Kelly Fritsch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory at Carleton University, unceded Algonquin territory (Ottawa).

Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee is an Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Sociology department at University of Alberta. She uses contemporary social theory to explore subjectivity, embodiment, and gender.

Carolyne Topdjian

Carolyne Topdjian is an artist, writer, and educator whose work explores existential issues of aesthetics, consciousness, and identity.

Alumni List

Name	Thesis	Year
Barfoot, Catherine	Free Learning In Ontario	2017
Lachowicz, Peter	An Existenital Investigation into the Powerful Uncertainty of Death and the resulting Gap that occurs between Phenomenal entities and their Apparent/Semblant counterpart in the interdependent relation of In-person Interaction and Digital Messaging: the Battle between Dasein either Being-with other Daseins or Being-Alongside-the-Other	2017
Kunze, Michael	Play and the Revolution of Everyday Life	2017
Brownrigg, Erik	Tracing Ethics: Derrida	2017
Lu, Jun	Preliminary Thinking: The Cultural Revolution as a Defense Against Persecutory Anxiety	2017
Mastrocola, Christopher	Marcuse on Primary Narcissism: A Reinterpretation	2016
Khan, Sadia	Adam Smith at the Margins The Colonial Question in the Wealth of Nations	2016
Nusbaum, Jordan	The Way Through Nietzsche's Garden	2016
Correia, Tyler	Coming to Terms with Modernity: The Possibility of Politics in the Works of Arendt and Rawls	2016
Friesen, Rachelle	Making Life Permanently Temporary: An Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Jerusalem	2016
Serykh, Darya	Gay Liberation Versus Soviet Oppression: Constructing and Regulating U.S. Homonational Identity during the Cold War	2015
Niloofar, Golkar	Rethinking the Center Critique of the Theory of the Primitive Accumulation and the Situation of the Temporary Working Women in Ontario	2015
Duncan, Maija	Politics and the Myth of Sovereignty: Affects of Nationalism and Protest in the 2012 Quebec Spring	2015
Leal, Severin	Building Knowledges of Love and Sex: A Review of Monogamy and Sex Work Literature	2015
Behnam, Amini	State Power and Class Power in the Post–Revolutionary Iranian State	2015
Placzek, Richard	"Melodramatic State Terror"	2015
O'Callaghan, Connor	Poverty as State Violence	2014
Abdul Hamid Khan, Salmaan	Reflections on Orthodox Marxism	2014
Bannis, Albert	The Socio-economic, Cultural and Political impact of Cell Phone Technology due to the Deregulation in Dominica	2013
Alamdar, Negar	Ontologizing Ideologies of Neoliberalism and the resistance of Transcending Identities	2012
Rodriguez, J. Santiago	The Significance of Social Imaginaries: Reading Cornelius Castoriadis and Benedict Anderson	2012
Anna McIntosh	Foundations for an Inclusive Approach to the Study of Psychology in an Interconnected World	2012
Yasar Bukan	Theory of State Relations in Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy	2012
Kerpel, Mark	Historical Specificity in the Thought of Karl Marx	2012
Dwyer, Asheda	The politics of chanting down Babylon: Re-reading the 1960 reports on the Rastafar-I of Kingston, Jamaica	2011
Malcolm, Cristopher	The Whole is False: Adorno's Negative Materialism	2011
Sarkeesian, Anita	"I'll make a man out of you": Strong women in science fiction and fantasy television	2010
Adjemian, Jonathan	Fanon: the uses of psychology Psychiatry, group dynamics and the work of social change	2010
Voegeli, Fabian	Temporality and Potentiality in Ancient and Modern Techniques of the Self	2010
Heer, Amrit	Postulating Chance in Deleuze	2010
Crighton, Claire	To put it briefly: Freshman composition and the politics of concise writing in modern America	2010
Upadhyay, Nishant	Building Consciousness and Redefining Politics: Going beyond class	2010
Harman, Jason	Nothing of Substance: A Spinozist Response to Emmanuel Levinas	2009
Selimovic, Adnan	Psychopolitics of Childhood: Trauma of Modernity and the Political Prospects of Bosnia Youth	2009
Cimino, Franco	Representation De-sutured: Between Pathos and Intermittency	2009
Araujo, Christopher	The Phenomenology of Labour: Reason, subjectivity, and freedom in Marx's writings from 1844 to 1867	2009
Taylor, Cayley	Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City	2009
Miceli, Vanessa	Dispossession as permanent temporariness: a comparative reading of poor laws in early nineteenth century england and refugee rights in the age of neoliberalism	2009
Gill, Sean	Towards a Post-human Marx: Rethinking Consciousness, Labour, and Human Difference	2009
Taylor, Cayley	Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City	2009
Ali, Noaman G.	Repeating Anticolonial Nationalism: Mozambique and the Political Economy of Dominance and Hegemony, 1975-2009	2009
Dang, Baolinh	The Concept of Natural History in Adorno and Marcuse	2008
Lafrance, Stirling	Direct to Consumer Advertising: How Subjective Governance Serves Capital	2008
Erin, Gray	Going Achitextural: Thinking Through Sensation in Gins, Arakwa and Brossard	2007
Lee, Andrew Michael	Querying the conditions for warfare: The political economy of U.S. military spending in 21st century	2007
Newson, Michael	Rawls' Concept of Political Society, Justice as Fairness and the Problem of Transnationalism	2006
Welburn, Jude	On the Image of History in Benjamin's "These"	2006
Bisnar, Danielle	Trauma, Witness, Testimony: Psychoanalysis and Narratives of Colonial Education	2005
Jull, Mark	Plato's wish: pleasure, metaphysics and sovereign being	2005
Thompson, Shawn	The Subject of Metapsychology: Working Through the Ethics of Desire with Freud and Kierkegaard	2005
William, Lane	Making it real: The Subject in Play	2004
Gasteiger, Tyler	A Study of Language and Desire in Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit	2004
Belmer, Stephanie	Art and Negative Dialectics In Constellation: Critical Theory and a Dialectical Negation of Identity-Thinking	2004
Robertson, Trevor	A Poetic Word: Manifestation in High Park	2004
Chang-Campbell, Gena	Retail Religion? Contesting the Cooptation and Commodification of Candomble in Salvador, Brazil	2003
Klement, Kristine	Psychoanalysis and Performativity: Theorizing Gender and Sexual Identity between the Psyche and the Social	2003
Lefebvre, Alexandre	Laws of Critique, speculative and ethical	2003
Alexander, Claudius	Bad Faith Bad Conscience & Forgetfulness: Three Perspectives on The [Im]-Possibility for Ethical Practice in Contemporary Human Attitude	2003
Hilary A., Schuldt	The Uncanny Life of Hope	2003
Bociurkiw, Marusya	Lucy, and Ellen, Rosanne and Ally: Sexed Bodies and the Construction of Normalcy in Television Comedy	1999
Hall, Micheal	Re-staging Performativity: Authourity and Acknowledgment from Benvensite to Butler	1999
Williams, James	Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Practice of Policing	1997
Cemer, Brett	Rethinking Revolutionary History: Marxism and Working Class Unification	1996
Burman,Jenny	Waking Dreamscapes: Colonial Nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North-South" tourism advertising	1996
Landolt, Patricia	The Indian Peasantry of the Western Highlands of Guatemala: Upholding Corporate Community and the Indian Identity	1996
Friedman, Elizabeth	Too Much and Not Enough: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Art of Ambivalence	1996
Goldman, Daniel	Turning Politics around Theology: Negativity in Benjamin's Critique of Violence	1996
Borman, Jenny	Waking dreamscapes: Colonial nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North South" tourism and advertising	1996
Resendes, Livia	Ethical Epistemologies	1995
Camfield, David	Towards a Social History of Foucault's Thought	1995
Kiefer, Theresa	Computer-Mediated Communication in the Workplace: An Evaluation of the Development of the Subject in the "New" Working Class	1995
Hennessy, Niamh	Defining Moments: Models of Public Space as Emancipation in Arendt and Habermas	1994
Baker, Norma	Reality as Oxymoron: Contingent Essentialism and Marx's Theory of Social Ontology	1994
Druick, Zoe	Adorno, Benjamin and the Dialectics of Culture	1993
Stolow, Jeremy	A Critical Report on The Bureaucratization of Multiculturalism	1993
Dufresne, Todd	Reading Towards an Understanding of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle	1992
Ives, Peter	Gramsci and Feminism: From allusion to alliance	1992
Robertson, Kathleen	Use, Pleasure and Meaning: The Social Practices of Consumption	1992
Hiristos, Verikukis	Toward a Definition of the Proleteriat	1992
Ramsay, Christine	"Are you really royal or are you a derelict?" Abjection and the passive male hero in the films of David Cronenburg	1992
Kulak, Avron	Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Necessary Structure of the Interpersonal Origin	1991
Kontos, Louie	A Theoretical Inquiry into Cybernetics	1991
Macintyre, W.A.	The Post-Colonial State and the Global Economy: Dependence, Continuity and the Potential for Transformation in the Case of Trinidad-Tobago (1972-1984)	1991
Boucock, Cary	Michel Foucault and the 'Repressive Hypothesis': A Rejoinder for Herbert Marcuse	1991
Welch, Colin	Autonomy and Power: the Ethical Theory of Michel Foucault	1990
Freedman, Ben	Alienation, Reification and the Ontology of Social Being	1990
Laurie, Peter	Power in Development: Rethinking the Critique of Canadian Foreign Aid	1989
Fielding, Helen	Communicative Ethics and the Desiring Subject: A Feminist Rethinking of Habermas	1989
Colvin, Ian	Adorno and Humor	1989
De Villa, Gonzalo	Colonial Guatemala: Ethnicity and Social Classes, 1524 - 1821	1988
Cosgrave, Jim	Intimate Strangers and Anti-Heroes or "Postmodern Aesthetics"/Sociological Poetics": A Dialogical Approach to Understanding Television Discourses	1988
Polster, Claire	Toward a Decentered Historical Materialism	1988
Waldorf, Lee	The Limits of Art: Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory	1988
Havers, Grant	Existence-Communication and Greek Thought	1988
Lo, Marlow	Anti-pornography, sex negation and the expansion of state control: A critique of the critiques of pornography	1987
Clark, Donald	Language, Aesthetics, And Practice: Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Marxism	1987
Shergold, Teresa	An Identity of One's Own: Femininity, Authority and Gender Domination in Critical Theory	1987
Davies, Philip	Idea and Information: Phenomenological and Cybernetic Aspects of Talcott Parson's Theory of Action	1986
Bondi, Lou	Rousseau and Political Action	1986
Colby, Marion	Women and Law In The Third World Strategies for Empowerment	1986
Farrell, Gilda	Cuba: The Transition Road Economy and Employment	1986
Sorensen, Carol J.	Cherchez la femme: Derrida, Irigaray, and the search for the "other woman"	1985
Elias, John Manuel	Phenomenology of Narrative: Existential Communication as Dialectical Practice	1985
Ifeanyi, Enwerem M.	Socialist Imperatives In Africa: A Critical Examination	1985
Zisman, Alex	La tia Julia y el escribidor and the object of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary creation as a novelist	1985
Mortimer, Christopher	Aspects of Disarmament	1984
Cechmistro-Michie, Olga	Rhetorical Strategies in Philosophical Writing	1984
Vanderplaats, Robert	Marx, Weber and the Interpretation of the Dutch Republic	1983
Duncan, Colin A. M.	The General Norms Of Economic Life	1982

Name	Dissertation	Year
Rodrigues, Sara	Elective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation	2017
Preston, Jennifer	Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction	2017
O’Regan, Keith	Toward a Productive Aesthetics: History and Now Time in Blake and Brecht	2017
Nelson, Bryan	Democracy Against: The Antinomies of Politics	2017
Lewis, Clayton	After The Death Of God: From Political Nihilism To Post-Foundational Democracy	2017
Keikhaee, Aidin	For the Other, Beyond Ethics: Responsibility, Critique, and Praxis in Levinas and Adorno	2017
Jain, Dhruv	The Atomic Prince: A Lucretian Interpretation of Machiavelli	2017
Hayter, John Matthew	Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making	2017
Araujo, Christopher	Nature, History and the Dialectic of Negativity: The Category of Nature in Marx's Writings	2017
Zeleke, Elleni	Social Science is a Battlefield: Theory and Practice and Contested Politics in Revolutionary Ethiopia	2016
Upadhyay, Nishant	"We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada	2016
Nastovski, Katherine	Towards Transformative Solidarities: Wars of Position in the Making of Labour Internationalism in Canada	2016
Kalman-Lamb, Nathan	Athletic Labour, Spectatorship, and Social Reproduction in the World of Professional Hockey	2016
Cochrane, David (Troy)	What's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55	2016
Adjemian, Jonathan	To Hold the World Visible: Writing and History in the Work of Mohammed Dib	2016
McMahon, James	What Makes Hollywood Run? Capitalist Power, Risk and the Control of Social Creativity	2015
Kolia, Zahir	Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500–1900	2015
Drapeau, Thierry	The Atlantic Roots of Working-Class Internationalism: A Historical Re-Interpretation	2015
Fritsch, Kelly Michelle	Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices	2015
Gordon, Aaron Andrew	Eurocentric Archival Knowledge Production and Decolonizing Archival Theory	2015
Levine, Gabriel Jaime	Radical Vernaculars: Experiments with Tradition between Politics and Performance	2015
Ruddy, Karen Ann	Decolonizing Literacies: Transnational Feminism, Legacies of Coloniality, and Pedagogies of transformation	2015
Selimovic, Adnan	Stillborn: The Libidinal Economy of Gadgetized Mediation in the Era of Socialization for Consumption; An Explanatory Political Project	2015
Zinaic, Rade	A Materialist Critique of Critical Balkanologies	2015
Belmer, Stephanie Lynn	At the Intersection of Ethics and Aesthetics: Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor Adorno on the Work of Art	2014
Flemming, Gregory C.	In the Beginning… Was the Act!: Zizek, Marx, and the Question of Form	2014
Henderson, Christine Rose	Contemporary Ruins: Politics and Aesthetics Beyond the Melancholy Imagination	2014
Khimji, Mohamed	Thinking the End in Itself: a Critical Study of First Principles in Plato, Aristotle, The Bible, and Kant	2014
Lee, Robyn	Breastfeeding: Power, Ethics, Poetics	2014
Norys, Marnina Margaret Ann	Mere Sources of Error: Workers, patients, and the reductive logic of rationalized healthcare	2014
Sayer, David Andrew	Machiavelli on the Art of the State and the True Way	2014
Videkanic, Bojana	Non-Aligned Modernism: Yugoslavian Art and Culture from 1945-1990	2014
Weisberg, Zipporah Leslie	Animal Dialectics: Towards a Critical Theory of Animals and Society	2014
Dionne, Emilie	Thinking the Pluri-Person through Ironic Practices of Storytelling	2013
Harman, Jason Malcolm	The Politics of Tragedy: The Reversal of Radical Democracy	2013
Kuhnle, Lee Christian	On the Concept of Religion in Walter Benjamin's Critical Theory	2013
Mccormack, Geoffrey Robert Macbride	The Causes, Characte and Consequences of Economic Growth in Canada, 1974-2008: A Classical Political Economic Analysis	2013
Potts, Graham Michael	Posthuman Punk'd	2013
Stewart, Fenn Elan	Naturalizing Canada: Settler Colonial 'Wilderness' and the making of race and place	2013
Burke, Donald	A Dialectical Approach to Aesthetics in the Age of Post-metaphysical Modernity	2012
Topdjian, Carolyne	"Post-Beautiful Bodies: New Ways of Representing Female in Contemporary Visual Culture"	2012
Badeen, Dennis	A Marxist Critique of the Ontological Foundations of Neoclassical Economics	2011
Chowdhry, Aniruddha	Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity and History: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and Postcolonial Thought	2011
Georgiou, Andreas	Being and Time of the Everyday: A Critique of Distance and Engagement	2011
Kamenova, Kalina	The Public Communication and Biopolitics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the United States and the European Union	2011
Kiloh, Kathy J.	Embodied Ethics and Corporeal Conscience: Levinas & Adorno Within & Beyond Totality	2011
Nagam, Julie	Alternative Cartographies: Grafting a New Route for Indigenous Stories of Place	2011
Resendes, Livia	Boehme and Hegel: Towards a Rational and Androgynous Spirituality	2011
Bojadzija, Amira	Narratives of Sense Memory in Holocaust Survival Literature	2010
Hamer, Edward	The Ethical Implications of Accomplished Rituals: Visual Art and Psychology	2010
Liinamaa, Saara	Experiments in Urban Knowledge: Contemporary Art as Urban Research	2010
Scherer, Frank F.	Freud's Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, "Anti-Semetic Challenge", and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse	2010
Sun, Feiyu	Social Suffering and Political Confession: Suku in Modern China	2010
Wells, Charles H.	The Subject of Liberation: Confronting Slavoj Zizek	2010
Norton, Glen W.	Exploring Lived Cinematic Moments in Italian Neorealism and the French Nouvelle Vague	2009
Arcila, Paola Bohorquez	Living Between Languages: Linguistic Exile and Self-Translation	2008
Campbell, Colin J.	Beyond Vengeance: Religion and Political Liberation in Bataille, Girard and Rousseau	2008
Chandler, Mielle	Creation, Sovereignty, Ethics: Private Property and the Infraction of Infinity	2008
Chang-Campbell, Gena	Mestizaje a la Mode: Women and Popular Religion in Brasiliadade and Cubanidad	2008
Clift, Sarah	Committing the Future to Memory	2008
Friedman, Elisabeth Ruth	Aesthetics of Incommensurability: Artworks, Archives and the Dilemmas of Holocaust Representation	2008
Hameed, S. Ayesha	Bricks and Blood: The Dialectical Image of the Black Atlantic in the Colonial Metropolis	2008
Krishnamurti, Sailaja Vatsala	"The Route to Your Roots": History, Hindu Nationalism and Comics in India and South Asian Diasporas	2008
Neimanis, Astrida G.	Bodies of Water	2008
Rosen, Joseph E.	Beyond Memory: From Historical Violence to Political Authority in Contemporary Space	2008
Scott, Sonya Marie	The Epistemological Constitution of Subjectivity in Economic Thought	2008
Short, Jonathan	A Life Undivided: On Agamben's Use of Heidegger and Benjamin	2008
Thompson, Chad D.	Epistemologies of Independence: Technology and Empire in the Post-Soviet Borderlands	2008
Bresnahan, Keith	Architectures of Affect: Form and Feeling Between Enlightenment and Modernity	2007
Levant, Alex	The Problem of Self-Emancipation: Subjectivity, Organization and the Weight of History	2007
Ma, Michael C.K.	Social Justice Exhaustion and Containment: An Investigation of the Chinese National Council — Toronto Chapter	2007
Mann, H. Molly	Hegel and Ricouer's Teleological Conception of the Ethical Aim: Social Justice as Civic Inclusion	2007
McMurtry, J.J.	Theory's Life Aporia: Understanding the Life Ground of Social and Political Thought	2007
Persaud, Walter H.	International Education in Thailand: A Postcolonial Analysis	2007
Shaw, Christine	Connect, Conjugate, Continue: Unfurling Thought and Creativity	2007
Andrade, Pablo	Democracy and Political Change in Ecuador: Liberalism, the Politics of Culture, and Industrial Reform	2006
Cauchi, Mark	The Creation of Deconstruction: the Greek, the Abrahamic, and the Sins of Jacques Derrida	2006
Heynen, Robert J.	Degeneration and Revolution: Radical Cultural Politics and the Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany, 1914-1933	2006
Kamugisha, Aaron	Abducting Western Civilization: Colonality, Citizenship and Liberation in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition	2006
Mtshali, Khondlo	The Developmental Phases of a Healer in Ayi Kewi Armah's Novels	2006
Tahmasebi-Birgani, Victoria	The Ethical Work of Liberation: Levinas, Ghandi and Political Praxis	2006
Walker, Kathryn	All of Antigones	2006
Khan, Tariq Amin	Theorizing the Postcolonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalism	2005
Parkins, Ilya	Material Modernity: A Feminist Theory of Modern Fashion	2005
Sliwinski, Sharon	Visualizing Human Rights: Photography, Atrocity, & the Ethical Imagination	2005
Armstrong, Sean David	Superstition and the Idols of the Mind: How the Witch-Hunt Helped Shape the Scientific Revolution in England	2004
Baker, Norma Jo	The Politics of Irresponsibility: Liberalism and Labour in YeltsinÕs Russia	2004
Blackell, Mark	Symptoms of Democracy: Ambivalence and its Limits in Modern Liberal Conceptions of the Liberal Democratic Bond	2004
Lokaisingh-Meighoo, Sean	The Return of Dialectics	2004
Travis, Ellen	The Material Production of Truth	2004
Anderson-Irwin, Chris	Hegel, Judaism, and Biblical Thought	2003
Cameron, Gregory	Project of Philosophy: Myth, Politics and Experience	2003
Lucas, Janet	Disruption of Human Subjectivity: An Exploration of Language and Psychosis	2003
McCullough, John	Tedium and Torture: Representations of Work, Class Relations and Nation at the Beginning of the 21st Century	2003
Song, Xingwu	Modernization and Individualization of Youth in Post-Mao China	2003
Suski, Laura	Anguished Humanists: International Development and the Humanitarian Impulse	2003
Vanstone, Gail	Documenting D: Studio D of the NFB and Its Representation of Women's Lives in Canada, 1974-1996	2003
Verikukis, Hristos	Was Khun Really Revolutionary? Or, From Demarcation to the Choice of Critical Problems, From Khun to Popper and Althusser	2003
Wright, Robert Eric	The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism	2003
Cameron, Heather	The Promises and Perils of Practices of the Self: Foucault, Freud and the Fate of Critique	2002
Camfield, David	Class, Politics and Social Change: The Remaking of the Working Class in 1940s Canada	2002
Ferentzy, Alex	Gilles Deleuze and the Trajectory	2002
Foster, Cecil A.	Blackness and Canada: A Phenomenological Exploration	2002
Kispal-Kovacs, Joseph	Hollywood's Working Class: Class & Class Conflict in the Hollywood Cinema 1927-1941	2002
Varga. Darrell	The Performance of Space in Canadian Film	2002
Arrowsmith, Douglas	Techniques of Self-Mastery: Montainge, Shakespeare, and Freud	2001
Burman, Jenny	Economies of Nostalgia and Yearning: Travelling the Route Between Toronto and Jamaica	2001
Driver, Susan	Queering Material Desires Through Dialogical Relations of Experience	2001
Heftler, Victoria	Just History? An Argument for Critical Cosmopolitan Histories of Harm	2001
Ironston–Catterall, Penelope	Crisis, Trauma, and Testimony: the Work of Mourning in the 'Age of AIDS'	2001
Simon-Aaron, Charles	Class Ideology and African Political Theory	2001
Arevalo, Marco Vinico Haroldo Fonseca	The Language of Human Rights in the Guatemalan Transition to Democracy	2000
Boyd, Stephen	Rethinking Market Society: Delineating the Historical Specificity of Capitalism	2000
Ferentzy, Peter L.	The Addiction Concept: How the Language of Sin was Replaced by that of Disease	2000
Fisher, Caitlin	Building Feminist Theory: a Hypertextual Heuristics	2000
Hennesy, Niamh	History, Space, and Language in the Work of Habermas and Bakhtin	2000
Lynn, Marion M.	The Process of Marital Disillusion/Dissolution	2000
Ramses, Veronique Tomaszewski	Aesthetic Heaven and Artistic Hell: An Intellectual Journey	2000
Schafer, Scott	Resisting Ethics	2000
Soron, Dennis	Economic Fatalism and Popular-Democratic Struggle	2000
Black, David J.	Wiring Birmingham: Cultural Studies, Romanticism, and the New Media	1999
Cosgrave, James Forbes	Identity, Particularity, and Value: Interpretive Conflict and the Collective Representation of Culture	1999
Druick, Zoe	Narratives of Citizenship: Governmentality and the National Film Board of Canada	1999
Indart, Rafael T.	Karl Popper's Philosophy of Social Science and the Problem of Tyrrany	1999
Lord, Susan	Sublime Machines: Time, Technology, and the Female Body of Ocular Modernity	1999
Ouellet, Eric	Management Consultants: A Sociology of Seduction	1999
Bradley, Dale A.	Unfolding a Strategic Space: a Discursive Analysis of Cyberspace's Power Relations	1998
Canefe, Negris	Sovereign Utopias: Civilizational Boundaries of Greek and Turkish Nationhood (1821-1923)	1998
Duncan, John Cameron	Nature, History and Critical Theory	1998
McCarron, Gary	Animals as Moral Others: Obligation in the Context of Animal Emancipation	1998
Mills, Megan Stuart	Ethnic Myth and Ethnic Survival — The Case of India's Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) Minority	1998
Ramsay, Christine Elizabeth	Masculinity and Processes of Intersubjectivity in the Films of David Cronenberg	1998
Salem-Wiseman, Jonathan	Beyond the Artist-God? Mimesis, Aesthetic Autonomy, and the Project of Philosophical Modernity in Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger	1998
Steuter, Erin	Identifying Ideology: Media Representations of the Irving Oil Refinery Strike 1994-1996	1998
Banks, Timothy Mark	Of Passions and Souls: Contemplating Willing, Ethics and Aids	1997
Carter, Stephen John	Implied Subjects: The Cultural Subject's Narrative Mediation of the Other	1997
Dufresne, Todd Raymond	Beyond Beyond: Tales From the Freudian Crypt	1997
Gillespie, James Loran	Art and Spectacle: The Dialectics of the Virtual Interface	1997
Kulak, Avron Paul	Origin and Critique: Reading Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morals	1997
Matthews, Edward J.	Hegel's Theory of the Modern Family and its Relation to Gender: Nature, Culture and the Anthropology of Power Relations	1997
Mookerjea, Sourayan	Recreating Art: Fetishes of Time: "Race" and Geopolitical Difference	1997
Ferguson, John Robert	What Sustains Sustainability? An Examination of Economic Visions of Sustainability	1996
Fielding, Helen Anne	Beyond the Surface: Towards a Feminist Phenomenology of the Body-As-Depth	1996
Fountas, Emily	The Body Without Organs or the Body As Flesh:	1996
Free, George Hector	Sociological Reflection: A Study in the Social History of the Sociology of Knowledge	1996
Ghisalberti, Giosue	Metaphysics of Finitude	1996
Morse, Michael William	The Tune in Jazz as a Social Process — Prolegomena to a Sociology of Music	1996
Ruhl, P. Lealle	Writing Human Reproduction Today: Liberalism and its Critics	1996
Taylor, Derek Hedley	Ecstatic Limits: On the Defense of Phenomenology	1996
Wynn, H. Francine	The Early Mother-Infant Relationship: Holding and Being Held	1996
Cocker, Brian Stephen	In the Event of the Future: From the Theory of Time to the Politics of Duration	1995
Duchesne, Ricardo	All Contraries Confounded: Historical Materialism and the Transition-To-Capitalism Debate	1995
Higgens, Delwyn Mae	Monuments/Memory/Meditation: The Rational Architecture of Postwar Italy	1995
Kellman, Tila Landon	Figuring Redemption: Enframing the Subject in Selected Work of Michael Snow	1995
Malszecki, Gregory Maurice	"He Shoots! He Scores!" Metaphors of War in Sport and the Political Linguistics of Virility	1995
Simmons, Deborah Lee	Against Capital: The Political Economy of Aboriginal Resistance in Canada	1995
Sinha, Amresh Kumar	Memory, Mimesis, Film: Readings in Benjamin, Adorno and Kluge	1995
Wickens–Feldman, Renate	Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake's Theory of Photography as the Containment of Communications Technology: A Hermeneutic Reading	1995
Markotic, Lorraine	Some are Born Pothumously: The Theoretical Writings of Lou Andreas-Salome	1994
Patroni, Viviana	The Long March To Neoliberalism: Crisis, Change, and the History of Development in Mexico and Argentina	1994
Jowett, Donna	Feminist Pedagogy in the Face of the Other: Emanuel Levinas and the Hermeneutics and Ethics of Emancipatory Knowledge	1993
Larrea, Carlos	The Mirage of Development: Oil, Employment, and Poverty in Ecuador (1972-1990)	1993
Longfellow, Brenda	Eccentric Subjcets: Feminist Film Theory and its Others	1993
Weir, Allison Elizabeth	Self-Identity and the Discourse of Repression: Feminist Theories of the Subject	1993
Wellen, Richard	Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought Since Max Weber	1993
Conklin, William E.	The Language of Authority	1992
Enwerem, Iheanyi M.	The Politicization of Religion in Modern Nigeria: The Emergence and Politics of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)	1992
Flaherty, Peter A.	Psychoanalytic Histories: Freud's Writings in Their Contexts of Production and Reception	1992
Genosko, Gary Alan	Bar Games: Baudrillard's Encounters With the Sign	1992
Havers, Grant	Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Study of Spinoza and Freud	1992
Hearne, Dana	The Development of Irish Feminist Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis of the Irish Citizen, 1912-1920	1992
Kemple, Thomas M.	Ruptures in Reason, Melodrama, The Market, and Marx's Grundrsisse	1992
Koch, Robert	Science and Right: Critical Legitimation in Kant and Hegel	1992
Lehnerer, Melodye	Becoming Involved: Field Research at a Halfway House for Ex-Offenders	1992
Lippe, Richard	Cukor, Women and the Melodrama: Close Readings of Four Films	1992
Marchessault, Janine	The Moving Image in the Aura of Science: Identity, Technology, History	1992
Michie, Michael Hugh	From Moral Philosophy to Social Economy: The Conservatism of Sir Archibald Alison	1992
Miles, Geoffrey Alan	Gravida-Gradiva: Pregnancy and Death-Work in Freud's Pompeiian Fantasy	1992
Pinter, J. Steven	H.A. Innis, M.M. Bakhtin and Trends in Canadian Policy Reporting	1992
Spiteri, Anthony Domenic	The Poor Ye Will Have With You Always? From an Analysis of the Concept of Ideology to an Investigation of Faith that Does Justice	1992
Gismondi, Michael A.	Religion and Revolution in Nicaragua: An Historical Perspective	1991
Jacobowitz, Florence S.	Critical Realism: The Sternberg/Dietrich Collaborations	1991
Kompridis, Nikolas	Reconstructing Aesthetic Theory: Between Habermas and Adorno	1991
Moore, Carol Jane	The Maternal Imago: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Study of Unconscious Representations of the Mother and their Role in WomenÕs Complicity in their Own Oppression	1991
Sawchuck, Kimberly Anne	Marketing Technology and the Body: A Foucauldian Report on Consumer Culture	1991
Baker, Langton G.	La Bette Philosophe: French Nietzsche Reception	1990
Plaats, Robert Glenn Vander	Capitalist Development and the State: England & the Netherlands, 1500-1800	1990
Root, Deborah	Regimes of Inscription: Cultural Difference and the Spanish Conquest of Mexico	1990
Alia, Valerie	Toward a Politics of Naming	1989
Coston, Nevin	The Politics of Plenitude: A Panegyric To Participatory Democracy in an Age of Technology	1989
Danzig, Samuel	2BV-2B: Towards a Uniphont Economy of Egalitarian Overletters	1989
Duncan, Colin Adrien Mackinley	The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature	1989
Elliot, Patricia May	Psychoanalytic Feminism: Toward a Critical Theory of the Gendered Subject	1989
Gauther, Lorraine Angeline	Citing/Siting Irigaray	1989
Sorenson, John	"An African Nightmare": Discourse on War and Famine in the Horn of Africa	1989
Stokes, Kenneth Michael	Toward Political Economy for the Epoch of the Noosphere	1989
Taylor, Angus Macdonald	Structure and Agency in Marx's Theory of History	1989
Shafer, John Jackson	The Repudiation of the Rights of Man in the Age of Revolution	1988
Swanson, G. W.	Conflicting Motifs in Max Weber's Theory of Modern Rationality with Special Reference to the Concept of Action	1988
Danik, Claude	Marx's Concept of Ground-Rent and Landowner Revenue: The Relation of Marx's Concept of Ground-Rent to the Historical Analysis of Landowner Revenue from the Production of Petroleum	1987
Forsyth, Scott	From Silver Screen to Red Flags: Marxism, Revolution and Popular Film	1987
Mooers, Colin Peter	State Formation and Economic Development in France and Germany: Absolutism to Capitalism	1987
Morgan, Brendan	Philosophy as Memento Mori in Early Works by Walter Benjamin	1987
Berland, Jody	Cultural Re/Percussions: The Social Production of Music Broadcasting in Canada	1986
Lyons, Lawrence Albert	Discourse Analysis, Social Theory and the Subject	1986
Mcmillan, Robert Lee	The Study of Anthropology, 1931-1937, at Columbia University and the University of Chicago	1986
Weir, Lorna	Studies in the Medicalization of Sexual Danger: Sexual Rule, Sexual Politics — 1830-1930	1986
Briskin, Linda	Theorizing the Capitalist Family/Household System: A Marxist Feminist Contribution	1985
Burston, Daniel	Toward a Revised Freudo-Marxism: Labour, Sociability and the Origins of Patriarchy	1985
Cohen, Marjorie Griffin	The Razor's Edge Invisible: Women, Markets and Economic Development in Ontario, 1900-1911	1985
Taylor, Patrick D.M.	The Narrative of Liberation: Historical Consciousness in the Afro-Caribbean	1985
Trumper, Ricardo Samuel	Domination and Resistance: The Chilean Countryside 1541-1850	1985
Winslow, Edward George	The Philosophical and Psychological Presuppositions of KeynesÕs Economics	1985
Comninel, George C.	Historical Materialism and Bourgeois Revolution: Ideology and Interpretation of the French Revolution	1983
Harvey, Irene Elizabeth	The Economy of Differance	1983
Lum, Janet M.	Private Space and Public Order in Contemporary China	1983
McNally, David Joseph	The Political Economists and Agrarian Capitalism: A Reinterpretation of Classical Political Economy in Britain and France	1983
Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz	Woman, Nature and Psyche: The Domination of Nature in the Tradition of Critical Theory	1983
Nederman, Cary Joseph	State and Political Theory in France and England, 1250-1350: Marsiglio of Padua, William of Ockham and the Emergence of 'Natural' Traditions of Discourse in the Late Middle Ages	1983
Singer, Brian Charles Joseph	State, Society and the Revolutionary Imaginary 1789-1794	1983
Boyd, Terrence	Truth and Its Expression: A Study of Soren Kierkegaard's Existence-Communication	1982
Daniels, David Allen	Theories of Peasant Society: A Critical Study	1982
Levine, Ellen Greengross	Psychoanalysis and Symbolism: The Space Between Self and World	1982
Valverde, Mariana	French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Political Economy	1981
Vise, Gerald Harris	Biography and the Interpretation of Music	1981
Wolfe, Sandra Merle	A Psychoanalytic Theory of Artistic Creativity	1981
Angus, Ian H.	Technique and Enlightenment: Limits of Instrumental Reason in the Life-World	1980
Meiksins, Peter F.	The Social Origins of White Collar Work: A Study of the Evolution of Capitalist Social Structure	1980
Mendelson, Jack	Methodological Foundations of the Social Sciences: The Problem of Explanation and Understanding	1980
Morrow, John	Idealism and Socialism in Britain 1880-1920	1980
Wolin, Richard B.	An Aesthetic of Redemption: A Study in the Philosophical Criticism of Walter Benjamin	1980
Hornosty, Jennie Mary	The Contemporary Marxist-Christian Dialogue: A Study in the Political Economy of Religion with Special Reference to Quebec	1979
Stamiris, Yiannis Emmanuel	Theories of Literature: (A Critique Towards a Dialectical Critical Enterprise)	1979
Walker, Charles Terrence	The Thought of R.G. Collingwood: Tradition as Tradition Overcome	1979

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