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This essay explores the tensions inherent in philosophical autobiography by way of an extended examination of Stanley Cavell's philosophical memoir, Little Did I Know. Using the idea of "exposure" to think through what may be a stake in the commitment to write about one's own life as an object of philosophical reflection, I suggest that Cavell's way of addressing the self-misunderstandings that inevitably arise in the auto-biographical act is to present the problem as being one of how to give "properly," in Roberto Esposito's sense of the term.] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author engages the epistemological problems raised by Gilles Deleuze's philosophical ontology of lines. She notes that Deleuzes is a philosopher of lines, not points, and values becoming over being, movement over stasis, and verbs over nouns. She also demonstrate that Deleuze does not propose a human epistemology and examines her execution of epistemology and how the epistemological innovation grounds her ontology of becoming.

The author focuses on French philosopher, historian and sociologist Michel Foucault's views on war against the so-called biopower. In his lectures, Foucault questioned whether war serves as a general paradigm of power relations which influence modern political orders. It explains that war-like nature of power has been a central theme in Foucault's work throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

The author examines feminism in the perspective of philosopher Theodor W. Adorno. She mentions that feminist philosophers have adopted Adorno's concept of the non-identical and cited his problematic depictions of the feminine. She points out the absence of studies on the interaction between the feminine and class in Adorno's figuration of the working-class woman.

The article focuses on the similarity between the post-war cosmopolitan of political scientist Hannah Arendt and philosopher Karl Jaspers. Arendt and Jaspers' discussion of the citizen of the world shares in a moment of cosmopolitan idealism after the World War II. They are dedicated to enlighten generous and unorthodox methodological approaches with personal experience and hermeneutic intuition. Their post-war pariah ethic has important ramifications for the philosophy of history.

The article argues that an effective work with French philosopher Jacques Ranciere's configuration of democratic politics needs attention to the literarity of democratic politics in order to heed the discursive aspects of his political project. Ranciere prefers to emphasize precisely the language and politics in relation to the theory of politics formulated by Aristotle. The nature of the political thereby rest in a certain conception of language. According to Ranciere, the speech that causes politics to exist is similar to the gap between speech and the account of it.

Introduces several articles which focused on philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Examines the concept of constitutive lack based on the outlook of philosophers compiled in the book "Ethics of the Real," by Alenka Zupancic. Emergence of the concept based on the philosophy of Jacques Lacan; Criticism of deconstructive ethics by Chantal Mouffe; Reason why Lacanians can claim to be anti-essentialist.

Provides information on the vision of Europe by philosopher Jacques Derrida evident in his last essays published in the book "Rogues." Information on the essay "A Europe of Hope," delivered at a gathering to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of "Le Monde diplomatique"; Rehabilitation of French words for hope by Derrida in works such as "Specters of Marx"; Interpretation of the term altermondialisation.

Discusses the views of philosopher Jacques Derrida on democracy thought of as a hyperbolic demand. Information on the Heideggerian spiritualization of Nazism; Distinction of conditional hospitality from the hospitality of law; Inclusion of the political within violence.

Discusses the views of Jacques Derrida on women and his alliance with feminism. Opinion on the establishment by Derrida of the exclusion of women by fraternal social bonds and institutions; Observation of deconstructivity to feminist readings such as "The Sexual Contract"; Interest of Derrida in the traditional role of women as facilitating relations between men.

Features Jacques Derrida and his contributions to philosophy. Interest of Derrida in psychoanalysis; Views of Derrida on deconstruction; Comparison of the efforts of Derrida to study humanities and social sciences with the efforts of Michel Foucault.