Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory

Revue canadienne de theorie politique et sociale

Editor
Arthur Kroker (Concordia)
Managing Editor
Marilouise Kroker
Editorial Board
William Leiss (Simon Fraser) Frank Burke (Queen's)
Michael Weinstein (Purdue) Eileen Manion (Dawson)
Deena Weinstein (De Paul) David Cook (Toronto)
Eli Mandel (York) Ray Morrow (Alberta)
Andrew Wernick (Trent) Pamela McCallum (Calgary)

Editorial Correspondents
John Schiller (Berkeley, Calif.) John Fekete (Peterborough)
Gregory Baum (Montreal) Russell Jacoby (Los Angeles)
Geraldine Finn (Ottawa) Daniel Drache (Toronto)
Jean-Guy Vaillancourt (Montreal)
Charles Levin (Montreal)
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 Canadian Journal of
Political and Social Theory

Revue canadienne
de theorie politique et sociale

FRENCH FANTASIES

Volume XI : Number 3 : 1987

 R OUSSEAU, NATURE, AND HISTORY

ASHER HOROWITZ
A re-evaluation of Rousseau's cultural and intellectual achievement, in
which Horowitz traces the development in Rousseau's major works of a
new, historical view of human nature and society.
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L ANGUAGES AND THEIR TERRITORIES

J .A . LAPONCE
TRANSLATED BY A .D . MARTIN-SPERRY
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and psychobiological perspectives .
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T HE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA

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U AWSON'S THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

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 Contents / Sommaire

FRENCH FANTASIES
of a cynical sex and the disappearing subject

The Games of Foucault

Arthur Kroker

The End/s of Woman

NP. Ricci
The Question of the Moral Subject in Foucault's
Analytics of Power
Hwa YolJung

The Limit of Histories: Michel Foucault's

Notion of Partage
Deborah Cook

When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical

Principle of Economy
Jean Baudrillard

Modernity
Jean Baudrillard

DEBATES

Ideology, Critique and Contradiction in Marx :

AnsweringJ. Larrain
Gyorgy Markus
The Politics at Modernism's Funeral
John Laffey

THE LEGACY OF C.B . MACPHERSON

C.B . Macpherson (1911-1987)

Daniel Drache / Arthur Kroker
WasJohn Locke a Bourgeois Theorist?
A Critical Appraisal of Macpherson and Tully
Jeffrey Isaacs
REVIEWS
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy?
The Nihilism of Resistance & Freedom 130
Paul Nonnekes

Fading Postmodern Subjects 140

Stephen Pinter

Goodbye to all that: Conservative Theories of Ideology 149

Jeremy Rayner
Agency, Unlimited 158
Rene R. Gadacz

Roderick's 'Social' Amnesia : Habermas

and the Productivist Paradigm 164
Brian Caterino

L'objectivation et la symbolisation 173

Michel Lalonde