Posts tagged ‘Postmodernism’

Subject (Re-/decentred)

From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2)


by / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011)

1 Modern French thought, ‘structuralism’, ‘poststructuralism’, ‘postmodernism’, Marxism as well, are currently associated with the so-called ‘death of the subject’. Foucault’s ‘anti-humanism’, the celebrated ‘death of Man’, the declining popularity of the rational, Kantian, transcendantal subject, reigning over what Lyotard called ‘metanarratives’,1 are all parts of the process. Foucault’s rejection of the subject is unequivocally [...]


On Rem Koolhaas

by / RP 154 (Mar/Apr 2009)

Orientalism in reverse

by / RP 151 (Sep/Oct 2008)

On autonomy and the avant-garde

by / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000)

The singular and the specific

Recent French philosophy


by / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000)

93 Reviews

by , , , , , , , , , , and / RP 093 (Jan/Feb 1999)

Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection Fiona Jenkins Theodor W. Adorno, Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords Simon Jarvis, Adorno: A Critical Introduction Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Exact Imagination, Late Work David Ayers Gianni Vattimo, Beyond Interpretation David Macey Sean Homer, Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism Stephen Regan, ed., The Eagleton Reader Willy [...]


Globalization and Exceptional Powers

the Erosion of Liberal Democracy


by / RP 093 (Jan/Feb 1999)

Time and the working mother

Kristeva’s ‘Women’s Time’ revisited


by / RP 091 (Sep/Oct 1998)

Jean-François Lyotard, 1924–1998

by / RP 091 (Sep/Oct 1998)

Science-envy

Sokal, science and the police


by / RP 088 (Mar/Apr 1998)

Philosophy and racial identity

by / RP 075 (Jan/Feb 1996)

Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference

by / RP 068 (Autumn 1994)

Incomplete Modernity

Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society


by / RP 067 (Summer 1994)

The Spirit of Postmodernism (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 27 February); Rethinking Critical Theory (University of Essex, 27 February 1993); Maurice Blanchot (London, 6-8 January 1993)

by , and / RP 064 (Summer 1993)

The Cards of Confusion

Reflections on Historical Communism and the ‘End of History’


by / RP 064 (Summer 1993)

63 Reviews

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Reiner Grundmann, Marxism and Ecology Jonathan Hughes Theodor W. Adorno, Alban Berg, Master of the Smallest Link Lambert Zuidervaart, Adorno’ s Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion Jonathan Rée Moira Gatens, Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality Herta Nagl-Docekal and Herlinde Pauer-Studer, eds., Denken der Geschlechterdifferenz: Neue Fragen und Perspectiven der Feministischen Philosophie [...]


63 Editorial

by / RP 063 (Spring 1993)

Feminism and the Enlightenment

by / RP 063 (Spring 1993)

Habermas on Heidegger and Foucault

Meaning and Validity in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity


by / RP 061 (Summer 1992)

Feminism and Pragmatism

by / RP 059 (Autumn 1991)