"Robyn Ferrell's mastery of a rich and broad set of resources yields a stimulating text that continues a contemporary European tradition in social ontology, one that diagnoses the subtle interdependencies of metaphysics and social theory. This is done in a way so as to present both contemporary academic philosophy ond feminist theory with significant challenges to some of their more precious premises...."

Robyn Ferrell is Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and the author of several books, including Genres of Philosophy and Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan.