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    I would like to call the reader's attention to the statement appearing on page v, sent to Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi by Hanny Megally, executive director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, in protest against further egregious civil and human rights abuses in Iran.
    As this is the last issue of the current volume, I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who generously gave their time and expertise to review manuscripts for the journal: Andrew Arato, Richard Bernstein, Duncan Foley, Jerome Kohn, David Plotke, and Carole Vance.

Editor's Note                                                               Arien Mack                                                       iii

An Open Letter to
Ayatollah Shahroudi
from Human Rights Watch                                                                                                                       v

Is Patriotism a Mistake?                                               George Kateb                                                901

Good-by to Dictatorships?                                           Andrew Arato                                                925

The Role of Civil Nations
in the Making of Europe                                               Victor Perez-Diaz                                          957

A Sociological Theory of Publics:
Identity and Culture as
Emergent Properties in Networks                                 Eiko Ikegami                                                 989

Psychiatric Categories as
Natural Kinds: Essentialist Thinking
about Mental Disorder                                                   Nick Haslam                                               1031

One Self: A Meditation on the
Unity of Consciousness                                                  Nicholas Humphrey                                    1059

How a Social Construct Caused
Scientific Stagnation:
A Neuropsychological Case History                               Marcel Kinsbourne                                     1067

Fear: A Genealogy of Morals                                         Corey Robin                                                1085

Nature, Freedom,
and Responsibility:
Ernst Mayr and Isaiah Berlin                                           Strachan Donnelley                                    1117

Must Privacy and Sexual
Equality Conflict?
A Philosophical Examination
of Some Legal Evidence                                                   Annabelle Lever                                        1137

Index                                                                                                                                                  1173

Andrew Arato is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of the Committee for Democratic Studies at the New School University's Graduate Faculty.  He is the author of  From NeoMarxism to Democratic Theory (1993).

Strachan Donnelley, Director of the Humans and Nature Program at the Hastings Center, is the author of Wolves and Human Communities (co-editor with Sharpe and Norton, 2000) and the article "Human Nature, Views of" in the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (1998).  His current project is entitled "Ideas of Humans and Nature."

Nick Haslam is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the New School University's Graduate Faculty.  He has published articles on classification in psychopathology, personality, and emotion, and he guest co-edited Social Research 65:2 (Summer 1998) on "Taxonomy and Deviance."

Nicholas Humphrey is School Professor in the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School University.  His publications include Leaps of Faith (1996) and A History of the Mind (1992).

Eiko Ikegami is Director of the Center for Studies of Social Change and Professor of Sociology at the New School University's Graduate Faculty.  Her book, Japan's Route to Modern Civility: Aesthetic Publics and Network Revolution is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics and Director of the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Utopia and its Enemies and The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture, winner of the 1994 Spitz Book Prize by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.

Marcel Kinsbourne, M.D., a neurologist and psychologist known for his work on cerebral dominance and mental development, is the author of nearly 400 articles and the editor of 8 books.  He is currently Professor of Psychology at the New School University's Graduate Faculty and is affiliated with the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Annabelle Lever is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester.   Her book, A Democratic Conception of Privacy, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and her article "The Politics of Paradox: A Response to Wendy Brown" appeared in Constellations (June 2000).  Her current work involves the ethics of patenting human genes.

Victor Pérez-Díaz is Professor of Sociology at Complutense University of Madrid.  He is the author of Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics and the Rule of Law (1999) and The Return of Civil Society: The Emergence of Democratic Spain (1993).

Corey Robin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, CUNY.  His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Social Text, and Lingua Franca. His most recent publication is "Reflections on Fear: Montesquieu in Retrieval" (American Political Science Review 94 [June 2000]:347-60).  He is currently writing a book, Fear: Biography of an Idea.