Special Issue on John D. Caputo's WHAT WOULD JESUS DECONSTRUCT? GLOBAL SPIRAL 8.11 (2008).

Caputo, John D. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007.

Contents:

• In His Steps—A Postmodern Edition: An Excerpt from What Would Jesus Deconstruct?by John D. Caputo
• The Hermeneutics of the Kingdom of God: John Caputo and the Deconstruction of Christianityby Jeffrey Robbins
• An Ongoing Adventure with WWJD?: Review of What Would Jesus Deconstruct?by Thomas Jay Oord
• What Jesus Did: The Incarnation as a More Radical Hermeneutics by James K.A. Smith

Access the issue here: http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/Home/tabid/66/Default.aspx.

CFP: "Specialisation, Semiosis, Semiotics," 33rd Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, University of St. Thomas, October 16–19, 2008.

The non-restrictive theme of the meeting is “Specialization, Semiosis, Semiotics”, intended to underscore the fact that semiotics provides the only perspective that is inherently transdisciplinary, resulting from the universal dependence of experience and knowledge upon semiosis — that is, the action of signs. Papers on any aspect of the doctrine of signs, theoretical or applied, are welcome. Explicit tie-in to the theme is not required. Proposals should be made in the form of abstracts of approximately 150 words for evaluation by the Program Committee. Email address & full information concerning institutional affiliation, as applicable, should accompany the abstract submissions. Abstracts, together with index key-words and AV requirements (only if necessary: try to avoid) for individual papers and/or sessions should be submitted directly to both Professor Thomas F. Broden and John Deely . The abstracts are not to have special fonts or graphics, and are to be in the body of the email. Professor Broden will circulate the submissions to the Program Committee members, and communicate acceptance/rejection decisions. His office phone is 765-494-3857 or 765-494-3828. Read the full CFP here: http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/1008SSACall.pdf.

Jacoby, Russell. "Not to Complicate Matters, but . . ." CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION February 29, 2008.

"I hope today to complicate our notion of cahiers — grievances — and the role they played in the States-General of 1789." The professors and graduate students at the symposium nod appreciatively. They have heard or read similar justifications untold times before. The author explains that he or she will "complicate" our understanding of some event or phenomenon. "In this article," writes an ethnic-studies professor, "I seek to complicate scholars' understanding of the 'modular' state by examining four forms of indigenous political space." Everyone seems pleased by this approach. Why? The world is complicated, but how did "complication" turn from an undeniable reality to a desirable goal? Shouldn't scholarship seek to clarify, illuminate, or — egad! — simplify, not complicate? How did the act of complicating become a virtue? The refashioning of "complicate" derives from many sources. One recipe calls for adding a half cup of poststructuralism to a pound of multiculturalism. Mix thoroughly. Bake. Season with Freudian, Hegelian, and post-Marxist thought. Serve at room temperature. The invitees will savor the meal and will begin to chat in a new academic tongue. They will prize efforts not only to complicate but also to "problematize," "contextualize," "relativize," "particularize," and "complexify." They will denounce anything that appears "binary." They will see "multiplicities" everywhere. They will add "s" to everything: trope, regime, truth. They will sprinkle their conversations with words like "pluralistic," "heterogenous," "elastic," and "hybridities." A call for "coherence" will arrest the discussion. Isn't that "reductionist"? . . . Read the rest here: http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=0d88916qty2kc0t0b0gn0bsz1fmdjp7k.

Dirda, Michael. "Michael Kazin." WASHINGTON POST February 24, 2008.

It is a sad truth that almost any poet or novelist has a shot at immortality, but a critic lives only as long as he keeps writing, keeps in the thick of the action. A decade after his (or her) death, a loyal publisher may bring out a "selected essays" that will prompt a few reminiscences and reconsiderations. After another decade, nothing. Kazin, however, is luckier than most. While he scratched out a living by writing book reviews, teaching at various colleges and universities, and snagging grants (four Guggenheims, numerous other fellowships and regular visits to the artist's retreat Yaddo), he also produced three wonderful works of autobiography, classics of the modern American experience . . . Read the rest here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102223.html.

"CADAAD 2008," Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, University of Hertfordshire, July 10-12, 2008.

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. Following the success of the project’s first international conference hosted at the University of East Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international conference CADAAD’08, to be hosted at the University of Hertfordshire, 10-12 July 2008. In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new directions for critical discourse research. By new directions we mean i) theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary discourses. Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social and cognitive sciences are welcome. Papers exploring the following frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome:

• Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing, Metaphor)
• Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic Prosody)
• Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts)
• Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical Metaphor)

Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within applied and professional areas such as business, education, environment, health, and law. Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are especially welcome. Areas of particular interest include:

• Discourse on gender
• Discourse of International Law
• Discourse on immigration
• Discourse of the war on terror
• European Union discourse
• United Nations and foreign aid discourse

Access the conference website here: http://cadaad.org/cadaad08.

CFP: "Cross-Cultural Conflicts and Communication: Rethinking Jaspers's Philosophy Today," Seoul, July 30–August 5, 2008.

The International Association of Jaspers Societies invites members of the international community of scholars to participate in the Sixth International Jaspers Conference. The Conference focuses, though not exclusively, on Jaspers's thoughts on communication and dialogue, and on his idea of philosophy as transcending cultural traditions. Persons prepared to contribute papers on some aspect of the conference theme should submit to one of the undersigned Organizers no later than July 31, 2007: 1.) the title, 2.) a brief statement regarding the chosen topic, 3.) an indication of the contributor’s previous relevant publications, if any. Finished papers should have a reading time of about 20 minutes, and be submitted no later than January 31, 2008. A committee of readers will be convened for this purpose. We are hoping that our negotiations with the Organizing Committee of the World Congress will result in ample space and time for the Jaspers Conference. While the Sixth International Jaspers Conference will be held in conjunction with the 22nd World Congress of Philosophy, it is being planned independently. Registered participants in the World Congress will be able to attend and participate in the Jaspers Conference without additional fees. The Sixth International Jaspers Conference is organized by the International Association of Jaspers Societies on behalf of its Member Societies, Jaspers Society of Japan and The Karl Jaspers Society of North America, and with the support of Karl Jaspers-Stiftung Basel und Österreichische Karl Jaspers-Gesellschaft. Further information on the conference may be found here: http://www.bu.edu/paideia/kjsna/papercall.html.

Karl Jaspers Forum

To access the Karl Jaspers Forum, please go here: http://www.kjf.ca.

May, Todd. "Review of Nick Hewlett's BADIOU, BALIBAR, RANCIERE: RE-THINKING EMANCIPATION." NDPR February 22, 2008.

Hewlett, Nick. Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Re-thinking Emancipation. London: Continuum, 2007. Badiou, Balibar, Rancière is a critical overview of the political thought of three students of Althusser's, each of whom has moved away from his teacher in a direction different from the others. Hewlett argues that, in a France and indeed in a world that is increasingly neoliberal in both its thought and its practice, there is a need for a renewal of a left theoretical tradition. Each of these thinkers attempts to offer that renewal, with, in Hewlett's eyes, mixed success. The book can be read both as an overview of the work of these thinkers and as a critical engagement with them. However, since the discussions are brisk and often introductory, the critical questions raised to these thinkers do not (and, I believe, do not seek to) have much depth. I will argue that, at least in the case of Badiou, there are straightforward ways to answer the criticisms Hewlett raises. However, it should be said immediately that, aside from the criticisms, the overview he provides of each thinker is valuable, and in the cases of Badiou and Rancière, fairly accurate. As I am not a scholar of Balibar's thought, I cannot comfortably offer judgment of his efforts there. . . . Read the rest of the review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu:80/review.cfm?id=12443.

Foucault, Michel. THE BIRTH OF POLITICS: LECTURES AT THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE, 1978-1979. Trans. Graham Burchell. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and develop further the themes of his lectures from the previous year, Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how Eighteenth century political economy marks the birth of a new governmental rationality – seeking maximum effectiveness by governing less and in accordance with the naturalness of the phenomena to be governed – Michel Foucault undertakes the detailed analysis of the forms of this liberal governmentality. This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics". What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of governmentality characterises the present world and what revisions of liberal government has it given rise to? This is the diagnostic task addressed by Foucault's study of the two major twentieth century schools of neo-liberalism: German ordo-liberalism and the neo-liberalism of the Chicago School. In the years he taught at the Collège de France, this was Michel Foucault's sole foray into the field of contemporary history. This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of homo oeconomicus. Foucault’s analysis also highlights the paradoxical role played by "society" in relation to government. "Society" is both that in the name of which government strives to limit itself, but it is also the target for permanent governmental intervention to produce, multiply, and guarantee the freedoms required by economic liberalism. Far from being opposed to the State, civil society is thus shown to be the correlate of a liberal technology of government. This is not yet published but will be shortly. For a sample of chapter one, please visit: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=295668.

Cooper, Carol. "Chinua Achebe's THINGS FALL APART Turns 50 This Year [Interview]." VILLAGE VOICE February 19, 2008.

Although Achebe has been internationally famous since 1958, when his first novel, Things Fall Apart, was published by London's Heinemann Press, subsequent decades have only expanded his impressive résumé. Things Fall Apart wasn't the first African novel written in English, but it remains one of the most significant and best known. Two years before Britain granted Nigeria its independence, Achebe's fictionalized critique of cultural imperialism did for colonialism what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for American slavery. A commemorative edition arrives this month from Vintage/Anchor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Achebe's debut and his winning of the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, which honored his entire body of published work—his novels, critical essays, poetry, short stories, children's books, and anthologies of African short fiction. . . . Read the rest of the interview here: http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0808,302331,302331,27.html.

Timberg, Scott. "At 50, Achebe Novel Looks Immortal." LOS ANGELES TIMES February 24, 2008.

About a half-century ago, a shy young Nigerian man, who had grown up reading Dickens and Pilgrim's Progress, put his handwritten novel in the mail to a typing service in London. The manuscript sat untouched for months, until a colleague rescued it during a visit to Britain. These pages, after several rejections, later found their way to a sympathetic publisher.The book eventually released, Things Fall Apart, became a critical hit in Britain as well as the first African novel to break through to the English-speaking world. Not only did it sell -- nearly 10 million copies, in 50 languages -- this slim, understated volume became the one African novel to break, unambiguously, into the often impenetrable Western canon. The book continues to live: High school kids and college students read it for class, while African novelists read it to pursue its ideas and themes. To literary scholar John Marx of UC Davis, it's "the first novel of the African literary canon, to be sure, but also a key text in the body of writing one needs to know to be literate. I'd say that's the case not only in the English-speaking world but just about everywhere". . . . Read the rest here: http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-things24feb24,0,2262817.story.

"The Invention of Philosophy: Hume," Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2, March 13-15, 2008.

The interest raised by Hume’s way of practising philosophy is now very high amongst the scientific community; hence the place currently occupied by the Essays or the History of England: as well as the now widely spread references to a variety of Hume’s arguments in various areas of philosophical investigation. The Grenoble symposium, centred on the most out of context as possible issues of philosophical language, will be an opportunity to define what Hume has brought to the practice of philosophy after his time : thus, the issues around the philosophical vocabulary, the way to organise it, the relationship between philosophy and literature, philosophy and ‘common life ‘, philosophy of human or social sciences, are likely to be linked to the questions Hume asked to the philosophical tradition. We ought to review the problems he would have been the first one to express and the new methods he offers to the philosophers ‘community. By linking both questions : ‘How Hume does it ?’ and ‘How does Hume question us ?’, we could contribute to the better understanding of philosophy’s place and future in a new world, ours, and which he has been undoubtly one of the first ones to understand. The contributions now sought may/ should be about the new shapes Hume brings to philosophy (vocabulary, rhetoric, thought experiences, examples and references, literary genres) or about the invention of arguments and their future in posterity (in philosophy of sciences, moral psychology, aesthetics, politics). The entirety of the symposium should help to define in which terms philosophy is influenced by Hume’s ‘philosophical invention’, and towards which future. For further information, please visit http://www.plc-grenoble2.fr:80/index.php?code=158.

May, Todd. "Review of Jeffrey T. Nealon's FOUCAULT BEYOND FOUCAULT." NDPR February 14, 2008.

Nealon, Jeffrey T. Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and its Intensifications since 1984. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008. There is a witless, though common, interpretation of Michel Foucault circulating these days. It is an interpretation that seeks to declaw Foucault’s political radicalism and bring him into the liberal fold. On this interpretation, Foucault abandoned the analysis of power constructed during his genealogical period (false) because it had a totalizing character that left no room for resistance (false) in favor of a sort of individual self-construction that he found in the ancient Greeks (false). If Jeffrey Nealon had done no more than recall to us the vapidity of this interpretation, he would have performed a service. However, he has done much more than this. In his slim volume on Foucault, he has offered a fascinating interpretation of Foucault’s work, one that brings to light previous neglected elements of his thought. Although the stated motivation for Nealon’s discussion is to counter the current interpretation of Foucault’s ethical works, the result is one of the most interesting interpretations of Foucault to emerge in many years. The lynchpin of Nealon's interpretation is the concept of intensification. Nealon argues that an understanding of that concept will enlighten us on the trajectory of Foucault's middle and late periods, from power to biopower and from genealogy to ethics. For Foucault, this charting of emergent modes of power is hardly a story of progress or Enlightenment, but a story of what he calls the increasing "intensity" (intensité) of power: which is to say its increasing "lightness" and concomitant "economic" viability, in the broadest sense of the word "economic." Power's intensity most specifically names its increasing efficiency within a system, coupled with increasing saturation. (p. 32) The history of power, in short, is a history of a force (applied against the force of resistance) that becomes more supple and more suffused. Foucault Beyond Foucault proceeds by way of a systematic development of this thought. . . . Read the rest of the review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12364.

Prado, C. G. "Review of Timothy Rayner's FOUCAULT'S HEIDEGGER." NDPR February 20, 2008.

Rayner, Timothy. Foucault's Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience. London: Continuum, 2007. In this pricey book, Timothy Rayner hypothesizes that Foucault acknowledges a debt to Heidegger "at precisely the same time as he came to understand philosophy as a self-transformative activity of thought," and that "Foucault appropriated, modified and began to articulate a quasi-Heideggerian transformative philosophical practice." (5, 35) The thrust is that it was only as Foucault's thought evolved to understanding philosophical thinking as transformative that he appreciated how much he owed Heidegger, about whom he previously had said little. Rayner's treatment of Foucault puts him squarely among those I think of as Whiggish Foucauldians who read Foucault with two crucial presuppositions: that his thought was progressive throughout his career, and that Foucault's observations on the development of his own thought can be taken at face-value. (33-34, 35) I disagree with both presuppositions, thinking Foucault's "progress" was more a matter of shifts and changes, and finding the import of his comments on his own work as circumscribed by time, context, and especially mood. Rayner admits Foucault was "mercurial," but does not take seriously enough just how mercurial he was. (1) Rayner also quotes passages where Foucault extols the need to think differently, but reads them as aiming at advancement in thought. Against this, I think Foucault valued and sought difference in thought, not to progress intellectually in a way that could only be objective, but to escape intellectual normalization. With this card on the table, I will say what most struck me about the book. . . . Read the rest of the review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12423.

"Aesthetics and Contemporary Art," Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, March 13-14, 2008.

The Drawing Room, Trent Park Campus, Middlesex University, London N14.

PROGRAMME

Day 1 9.30-10.30 Registration and Coffee 10.30-10.45 Introduction: Peter Osborne, CRMEP 10.45-12.30 Sensate Thinking: Aesthetics, Art, Ontology

• Christoph Menke, SfB/Institute for Philosophy, University of Potsdam "Not Yet – The Philosophical Significance of Aesthetics"
• Eric Alliez, CRMEP "Undoing the Image"

12.30-13.45 Lunch

13.45-16.00 The Dissolution of Artistic Limits: Objects, Events, Ideas

• Juliane Rebentisch, SfB/Institute for Philosophy, University of Potsdam "Aesthetic Autonomy and Contemporary Art"
• Sebastian Egenhofer, University of Basel "Aesthetic Materiality in Conceptualism"
• Peter Osborne, CRMEP "The Fiction of the Contemporary"

16.00-16.30 Coffee

16.30-17.45 Keynote lecture 1 Art & Language – artists and writers title tba (a three-hander)

18.00-19.00 Drinks reception

Day 2

09.30-10.00 Coffee

10.00–11.15 Keynote lecture 2 Luis Camnitzer, artist and writer "The Two Versions of Santa Anna's Leg and Other Things"

11.15-13.30 Aesthetics of Post-Autonomy: Institution, Collaboration, Participation

• Susanne Leeb, SfB "Human Rights as 'Compass' for Art"
• Stewart Martin, CRMEP "The Subsumption of Art by Capital"
• Brian Holmes, writer and critic "Rules of the Game: the Artistic Device and the Articulation of Public Speech"

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.45 Exhibition-Value: Aesthetics of Curation in a Global Artworld

• Dorethea Von Hantelmann, SfB "The Rise of Exhibitions and the Exhibition as Art"
• Charles Merewether, curator "A Work in Progress"
• Pamela Lee, Stanford University "Not Politics as Usual: on the Political 'Problem' at the Venice Biennale"

16.45–17.15 Closing Discussion

Further details: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/crmep/EVENTS/AestheticsandContemporaryArt.htm.

Romano, Carlin. "Socrates in the 21st Century." CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION February 15, 2008.

Perhaps the most disappointing part of Wilson's book is her lack of attention to the wealth of scholarship re-examining the ancient public-relations triumph by which Plato identified 'philosophy' with his teacher's supposed essentialist attraction to absolutist definitions of concepts. To do so, Plato delegitimized the more pragmatic vision of philosophy, and claim to that word, of the great rhetorician and philosopher Isocrates (436-338 BC), Socrates' younger contemporary, who astonishingly doesn't get a single mention in Wilson's book. (Navia notes the mutual respect expressed between Socrates and Isocrates.) Groundbreaking research by scholars like Yun Lee Too, John and Takis Poulakos, Edward Schiappa, and others has established that our modern-day conception of philosophy as what the Platonic Socrates did, as opposed to what Isocrates did (think of him as an Athenian John Dewey), relies on a simplistic adoption of the Platonic Socrates as the criterion of true philosophy. Wilson indeed alludes to a truth on which this scholarship has shone fresh light. She writes that "in the fifth century B.C. nobody could have known that Socrates' limited set of interests would be identified with all true wisdom or 'philosophy' ('the love of wisdom')". . . .

Read the rest here: http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=3wkbtnnvrbgh425ftgz9z9hxtwg6j9bn.

"Alain Robbe-Grillet [Obituary]." DAILY TELEGRAPH February 19, 2008.

Alain Robbe-Grillet, who died on Monday aged 85 was the leading light of the 'new novel' in post-war France, as well as a film director and avant-garde critic whose theories were as influential as his novels. The mere mention of the author's name was enough to suggest hyper-modernity. When John Fowles's narrator in The French Lieutenant's Woman announces, "I live in the age of Robbe-Grillet," he is indicating that the book will be unconventional. The world of the Robbe-Grillet novel is anxious and unheroic. There is usually a dark plot, a mystery, an obsessive chase or detective quest, but resolutions are shrouded in ambiguity and the reader is left to piece things together as best he can. The novels are freighted with a sense of trauma which is left unexplained, flickering at the edges of consciousness. . . .

Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/19/db1901.xml.

See also:

• http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2008/02/18/l-ecrivain-alain-robbe-grillet-est-mort_1012928_3382.html;
• http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/02/19/03005-20080219ARTFIG00371-robbe-grillet-le-provocateur-institutionnel-.php;
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/books/19robbe-grillet.html?_r=1&oref=slogin;
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3392633.ece;
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alain-robbegrillet-leading-new-novelist-and-filmmaker-who-through-his-work-sought-to-undo-the-conventions-of-fiction-783983.html.

"Bishop Berkeley's Ideas and Idealism," Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, University of Edinburgh, March 7-8, 2008.

Sponsored by The International Berkeley Society and Scots Philosophical Club Programme: Friday 7th March 6.30-8.30 Dr. Alasdair Richmond (Edinburgh) "Into Space With Bishop Berkeley" Saturday 8th March 10.00 -11.30 Prof. David Berman (Trinity College Dublin) "From Scepticism to Immaterialism and Descriptive Psychology then back to Siris" 11.45 - 1.15 Prof. Catherine Wilson (CUNY) "Berkeley and the Corpuscularian Philosophy" 2.45 - 4.15 Dr. Tom Stoneham (York) "Imagination and Representation in Berkeley and Collier" 4.30 - 6.00 Dr. Peter Baumann (Aberdeen) "Molyneux and Berkeley" Conference Fees: £15 (£12.50 Student / £10 Edinburgh PhilSoc Members) 

For more information contact: thephilosophysociety@gmail.com.

Annual Conference, International Berkeley Society, Salve Regina University, June 26-28, 2008.

On June 26-28, 2008, the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island (http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/) will be the site of a major conference devoted to the study of the Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753). The event, which is sponsored by the International Berkeley Society, will include three days of presentations on Berkeley’s life and thought as well as visits to his home (Whitehall) and other sites associated with his 1729-31 stay in Rhode Island. For updated information, go to the conference website: http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/newport.html.

PUB: Grech, John, ed. "Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture." TRANSFORMATIONS 15 (2007).

Two things prevail in the essays presented in this collection. The first is the intense interest in the work of Benjamin coupled with a desire to re-invest it meaningfully into theories concerning the living relations of each author’s world. The second is the diversity of positions, terms of engagement, and interpretations of Benjamin’s work the authors herein adopt. Perhaps this second feature ought to have been expected, for just as the virtual dispersion through the media has diluted the power of the producer to determine the meaning of the artifact, so too, a diversity of approaches, interpretations, and applications can be expected to be taken in relation to Benjamin. . . . Read the entire issue here: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_15/editorial.shtml.