Political theology, religious fundamentalism and modern politics

Marilena Chaui ~ RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) ~ Article

Political theology, religious fundamentalism and modern politics Marilena chauí In order to define a single and indivisible sovereign political power, Western modernity needed to separate itself from the ecclesiastical power that impeded this unity and indivisibility. Consequently, public expressions of religion were placed under the control of rulers and intimate expressions were relegated to the […]

Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four?

Slavoj Žižek ~ RP 058 (Summer 1991), pp. 3–9 ~ Article

Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four? Slavoj Zizek The triad and its excess How far must a Hegelian dialectician learn to count? Most of the interpreters of Hegel, not to mention his critics, are trying to convince us in unison that the right answer reads: to three (the dialectical triad, etc.). Moreover, […]

Timely Meditations

Jonathan Rée ~ RP 055 (Summer 1990), pp. 31–39 ~ Article

Timely Meditations Jonathan Ree Review Essay on Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 201pp. £25 hb, £7.95 pb, 0521353815 hb, o 521 36781 6 pb. It is now some years since Richard Rorty broke with American analytic philosophy, for reasons he spelt out in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature […]

Stuart Hall: Culture and Power

Stuart Hall, Lynne Segal and Peter Osborne ~ RP 086 (Nov/Dec 1997), pp. 24–41 ~ Interview

A leading ﬁgure of the New Left in the 1960s, Stuart Hall is one of the founders of cultural studies in Britain and its most inﬂuential representative, internationally. The ﬁrst editor of New Left Review, 1960–61, and author (with P. Whannel) of The Popular Arts, Hall was Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies […]

Agnes Heller: Post-Marxism and the ethics of modernity

Agnes Heller and Simon Tormey ~ RP 094 (Mar/Apr 1999) ~ Interview

Interview agnes heller Post-Marxism and the ethics of modernity ST: Iʼd like to begin by asking you about your ﬁrst encounter with philosophy. What made you decide to do philosophy and what were the practical ramiﬁcations of such a choice in the 1940s?Heller: When I started university I wanted to be a scientist and I […]

Who needs postcoloniality?: A reply to Lindner

Harry Harootunian ~ RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) ~ Article

Who needs postcoloniality? A reply to Lindner Harry harootunian In Marx’s articles for the New York Tribune on British colonialism in India and the events leading to the Second Anglo-Chinese War (Opium War), critics have caught sight of a double mission attributed by him to British imperialism and colonialism to tear down the structure of […]