Contents Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl/Preface Nancy F. Partner/History Without Empiricism/Truth Without Facts Judith Schlanger/How Old Is Our Cultural Past? Isabelle Stengers/The Humor of the Present Nancy Austin/Naming the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon Karsten Harries/Beauty, Language, and Re-Presentation: Notes Toward a Critique of Aesthetics--With Special Reference to Architecture Mary Ann Caws/Making Space: For a Poetry of Architecture Charles Altieri/Intentionality Without Interiority: Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency Jacques Schlanger/Changing One's Beliefs Rosi Braidotti/Theories of Gender Sarah Westphal/Stories of Gender Mary Bittner Wiseman/Three Renaissance Madonnas: Freud and the Feminine