PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Andrea Rossi is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. His principal research interests lie at the intersection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Continental philosophy and political theory, with a special focus on the question of political and economic subjectivity. He is the author of The Labour of Subjectivity: Foucault on Biopolitics, Economy, Critique (2015), and co-editor with Diana Stypinska of Pastoral Power Today (forthcoming). Patrick Roney earned his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and taught in the Philosophy department at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, as an Associate Professor until his retirement in 2018. At present he teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. His research interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, with a particular focus on the sublime and the postmodern, the modern lyric, as well as phenomenology and environmental ethics. He has published numerous essays both in literature and in philosophy in journals such as the African American Review, Research in Phenomenology, The South African Journal of Philosophy, and several others.
