Table of Contents

Introduction: The time of critique
AUSTIN GROSS, HARE & LOUISE KROGH 3

Kantian Ripples
1 Spontaneous generation: The fantasy of the birth of concepts in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Stella Sandford 19
2 Hegelian phenomenology and the critique of reason and society
Peter Osborne 45
3 The vertigo of philosophy: Deleuze and the problem of immanence
Christian Kerslake 71

Disowned Enlightenments
4 Feminism and the Enlightenment
Pauline Johnson 103
5 Will the real Kant please stand up: The challenge of Enlightenment racism to the study of the history of philosophy
Robert Bernasconi 129
6 Exchange on Hegel’s racism
Jososeph McCarnarney & Robert Bernasconi 151
7 The philosopher’s fear of alterity: Levinas, Europe and humanities `without Sacred History’
Andrew McGettigan 166

Interlude
8 Peter Rabbit and the Grundrisse
Rosa and Charley Parkin 193

Betrayals
9 Oedipus as figure
PhilippPPe LACOUe-LabARthe 199
10 Generations of feminism
Lynne Segal 223
11 Name of the father, `one’ of the mother: From Beauvoir to Lacan
Françoise Collin, introduced by Penelope Deutscher 247
12 Black Socrates? Questioning the philosophical tradition
Simon Critchley 269

Critique in the expanded field
13 Marx’s Eurocentrism: Postcolonial studies and Marx scholarship
Kolja Linder 295
14 Who needs postcoloniality? A reply to Lindner
Harry Harootunian 324
15 Race, real estate and real abstraction
Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano 340
16 Anti-castism and misplaced nativism: Mapping caste as an aspect of race
Meena Dhanda 362

Sources 387

About the Author

The editors, Austin Gross, Matt Hare and Marie Louise Krogh, are PhD candidates in
the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University
London.