MORE ABOUT ANIMUS

The journal will be published annually, by December of the calendar year. Each issue of ANIMUS will be devoted to a single theme, and editors for the particular issue will be sought for their expertise in that subject or historical period. As soon as possible, we shall announce themes for forthcoming volumes and tentative dates for their publication.

Beginning in 2001, in addition to the articles on the theme of each volume, we are inviting articles that reply to, or comment on articles from any of the previous volumes, as well as additional contributions to those volumes. Such contributions will be judged by the same standards as the original submissions, and will be reviewed by the editors for the relevant volume. We hope, through this means, to unite the virtues of presenting a comprehensive treatment of a single theme with the broader scope of ongoing re flections on the growing variety of themes covered in ANIMUS. Submissions may be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief of the relevant Volume [see the list of editors for each volume of ANIMUS at Volume Editors], or to fdoull@mun.ca.

Articles are now invited for inclusion in the 2002 and 2003 issues of ANIMUS. Beyond the customary standards of quality and scholarship, submissions will be selected on the basis of their consistency with the Journal's stated interest [See the description of the Journal at Raison d'être]. For details as to format, please go to How to Submit Work

The theme of the 2002 Volume of Animus will be 'Political Institutions'.

• Editor-in-chief for the volume is David Peddle, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NF.

• Dennis House, Classics Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
• Christopher Elson, French Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
• Neil Robertson, Director, Early Modern Studies Programme, University of King's College, Halifax, Canada.
• F.L.Jackson, Department of Philosophy, Memorial University, St. John's, NF.

What is a political institution? In the wake of the great wars and ideologies of the twentienth century and the radical transformation of the nation state, political institutions became subject to an inner instability: the demand that either they adapt themselves to the experienced freedom of individuals or else be judged meaningless or oppressive. There is at once a continuation of the revolutions of modernity and a sense that somehow we are beyond the modern construction of political life; still a desire of global rights and freedoms and yet, as withnessed in reflections on the destruction of the environment and the plague of terrorism, a sense of the limits of universalism. That the global political order is composed of a universe of individuals no longer seems a credible answer to nationalism and xenophobia. In constitutional debate in North America and Europe focus has returned to the nature of institutional life seen not simply as a means to the enhancement of the individual will, though it is that, but also as a common good, participation in which draws the individual beyond the immediacy of his own interest and into relation to that of others. In this spirit we seek essays which address the nature of contemporary and historical political institutions in a broad sense inclusive of family, civil society, state, culture, history, etc.

Inquiries and submissions may be sent to David Peddle, Sir Wilfred Grenville College, Corner Brook, NF, A2H 6P9, or by email to dpeddle@swgc.mun.ca.

Vol 8 (2003) of Animus will have Aesthetics as its theme.

We anticipate future volumes on Theology, Aristotle, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Nineteenth Century Thought, some of the subjects the Editorial Board has considered. We would welcome suggestions for themes from our readers.

Again we invite contributions to these two forthcoming volumes for 2001 (Vol.6) and 2002 (Vol.7), either in the form of completed pieces or abstracts of articles still to be written. See How to submit work for procedures to follow. We also invite additions to earlier volumes.

General or technical inquiries should be addressed to the Journal's webmaster, Floy Andrews Doull, fdoull@plato.ucs.mun.ca, or by regular mail to Floy A. Doull, Department of Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's NF, A1C 5S7.