Table of Contents

1. Being-in-Relation 2. Recovering Relationality: Contra Heidegger's Descartes 3. Relationality and the Affective Structure of Subjectivity: Kant's "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" 4. Democracy, Relationality, and the University: Fichte's "Some Lectures concerning the Scholar's Vocation" 5. Justice, Love, and Relationality: The Figure of Niobe in Hegel's Lectures on Fine Art 6. Anonymity and Fear: The Refusal of Relationality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right 7. Animal Relations: Modes of Presence in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason 8. Obdurate Love: Intimate Relations: Toward a Metaphysics of Intimacy Conclusion: Opening Relations Bibliography Index

About the Author

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University, Australia and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Kingston University, London. He is the author of several books, including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press.