The Difference Site

The following difference-thinkers are to be noted ... Dastur, De Nooy, Johnson, Lamont, Vattimo, Williams ... and others. Scroll down the page for more information on these thinkers.

for additional information visit: dastur-homepage

Areas of interest:

Difference and its evolution, Heidegger, questions of time, and phenomenology.

Main difference-related publications:

Philosophie et différence (Les Editions de la Transparence, 2004).

Heidegger and the Question of Time (New-Jersey, Humanities Press, 1998).

for additional information visit: de nooy-homepage

Areas of interest:

Questions of identity and difference in literary theory, in cross-cultural communication, and in narrative genres.

Main difference-related publications:

Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line: An Articulation of Two Theories of Difference (New York, London: Garland, 1998).

Articles:

'From Revolution to Revolt: Kristevan Contestation for the Nineties' (1997) Southern Review, 30 (2), 146-58.

'The Double Scission: Dällenbach, Dolezel and Derrida on Doubles' (1991) Style, 25 (1), 19-27.

'Double Jeopardy: A Reading of Kristeva’s ‘Le texte clos’' (1988) Southern Review, 21 (2), 150-68.

for additional information visit: johnson-homepage

Areas of interest:

Issues of privilege, oppression, and social inequality

Main difference-related publications:

The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchical Legacy (Temple University Press, 1997)

Privilege, Power, and Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2001).

for additional information visit: lamont-homepage

Areas of interest:

Racial and class boundaries and comparative anti-racism.

Main difference-related publications:

The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration (Cambridge: Harvard University Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002).

The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and While Boundaries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).

Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality, (co-edited with Marcel Fournier), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

for additional information visit: vattimo-homepage

Areas of interest:

Difference philosophy, Heidegger, Nietzsche, democratic practice and ethics.

Main difference-related publications:

The Adventure of Difference (traduz. di Le avventure della differenza) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988), (The John Hopkins University Press, 1995)

Dialettica, differenza, pensiero debole contenuto, AA.VV., Il pensiero debole a cura di G. Vattimo e P. A. Rovatti (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1983 - 12-28)

Le avventure della differenza. Che cosa significa pensare dopo Nietzsche e Heidegger (Milano: Garzanti, 1980).

Articles:

'Identità, differenza, con-fusione', Casabella, 519 (1985) - 42-43

'Dialectics, Difference, and Weak Thought', Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 10 (1984) - 151-63, translated by T. Harrison

'Difference and Interference: On the Reduction of Hermeneutics to Anthropology', in Res, 4 (1982) - 85-91, translated by T. Harrison

'Dialectique et différence', Exercises de patience, 3-4 (1982) - 125-44, translated by J. Rolland

'Le avventure della differenza', Verifiche, 8 (1979) - 63-80

'Nitzsche e la differenza', Nuova Corrente, 68-69 (1976) - 681-702

for additional information visit: williams-homepage

Areas of interest:

Difference philosophy, postmodernism.

Main difference-related publications:

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2003).

Lyotard and the Political (Routledge, 2000).

Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy (Polity, 1998).