, good vse of Habermas’s theory of knowledge-constitutive interests; and his specification of the forms of political practice consonant with critical social theory resonates with the concepts of self-reflective critique and undistorted communication developed by Habermas in his examination of Freud. The greater part of the book (chapters 2 and 3) is taken up by […]

Science, Social Science, and Socialist Science RBASON AS DIALBCTIC Roy Edgley The Q1lrrent ~risis, soc ial and Intellectual In both fields one can trace in the analytical tradition a more or less gradual relaxation of the constraints thought to be implicit in the idea of science am:. reason. In the philosophy of science Popper sought […]

PiRSONAL AUTONOMY a: HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Richard Archer The following is largely a criticism of some of the mistakes and certain tendencies antithetical to an historical materialist conception of the world found in Eoss Poole’s paper ‘Freedom and Alienation’. (Radical Philosophy, Winter 1975). Basically the criticism is this: because Poole never entirely leaves the framework employed […]

expected is an analysis of our present situation with s’ome general guidelines for the transition to socialism. Dialectical change provides us with ever new situations which for an understanding demand that a wide range of experience .be drawn upon from within and without the revolutionary core. This in turn requires a respect for the opinions […]

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Discussion Dialeclics IN SEARCH OF DIALECTIC I am going to make some criticisms of dialectic as it is presented in the two papers in :R adical Philosophy 14. Richard Norman quotes with approval Engels’s criticism that Hegel failed to distinguish between a dialectic of concepts and a dialectic of the real world. He then takes […]

Reviews Half a Critique Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, trans. Alan Sheridan Smith, ed. Jonathan Ree, New Left Books, 820pp, £15.00 Pietro Chiodi, Sartre and Marxism, trans. Kate Soper, Harvester Press, 162pp, £ 6. 95 lan Craib, Existentialism and Sociology: A Study of Jean-Paul Sartre, Cambridge University Press, 237pp, £ 6. 95 Sartre’s monumental […]

~ ‘Nevertheless (Austin) did succeed in haunting most of the philosophers in England, and to his colleagues it seemed that his· terrifying intelligence was never at rest. Many of them used to wake up in the night with a vision of the stringy wiry Austin standing over their pillow like a bird of prey. Their […]

BADICALPBILOSOPHYTBN KeiIh.Joseph andlhe . simpleminded THREAT TO SWANSEA STUDENTS “Mounting evidence that a small minority of university teachers regards truth as being at worst irrelevant anc at best a political weapon to manipulate the simple-minded” is apparently gathering in the files of the right (see p.8) Two boycotts of exams, variou~demonstrations, a three day occupation […]

Joseph Dj-elzgeD This article is the first of a series on neglected philosophers. Some subjects will, like Dietzgen, be largely unknown, others simply forgotten by British philosophy departments. Later articles will (we hope) include introductions to Merleau-Ponty, Cassirer, Collingwood and Fouca~lt. Other suggestions would be welcome JOSEPH DIETZGEN is indeed a neglected philosopher. How many […]

ana Action ‘in the Huntinglon Affair I’nedom of Speech and Acaclamlc ….eedom Thought RoyEdgley ,. In Summer 1973 a group of students at Sussex University prevented Samuel P. Huntington, an American professor, from giving an academic lecture (see centre pages of RP7). They objected to his having played the par~f a ~new mandarin~ in the […]

Anll·MoJlallsm Peter Binns Marx, Tony Skillen correctly tells us, spoke with contempt of morality while at the same time condemning capitalism as an utterly evil system. ‘Why is this attack on capitalism reconcilable with the rejection of “the moral point of view”?’ Tony asks. His answer is: ‘Because morality is one of the (real) evils […]

ing-class Clbove one’s own as an individual. Not only is it a form of moral philistinism to construct a theory in which they must be excluded, but it can only devalue an important (though subsidiary) weapon in the working-class armoury for use in the class struggle. The Valu~ of Morality Morals, or rather moral principles […]

Liberals,fanalics and moral philosophers Aspects of R~M. Hare’s I have recently re-started work on a study of Tolerance and rummaging through my books for any which I might usefully read or re-read as background or foreground picked out R. M. Hare’s Freedom and Reason, chapter 9 of which has the title ‘Tolerance and Fanaticism’. I […]

Discussion Willgenslein’s Conservalism K. T. Fann, in his admirably lucid article (‘ lVi ttgenstein and bourgeois philosophy’ , Radical Philosophy 8, p24ff) recommends that radicnl philosophers should adapt to their own purposes the methods of the later Wittgenstein. Given, however, that a radical philosopher as such aiMs at altering widely-accepted modes of thought- and action […]

Hegelian Marxism than to the relations that exist in Althusser’s thought. He attacks the latter as ‘philosophy’s police mentality’ but no more. The difference is that between a clear and rigorous analytic distinction between the concepts that combine into a theory – a distinction that Al thus.ser tries to maintain – and a relationship of […]

Benton’s comments on Ranci~re seem to put forward a rather different view of science than Althusser does, so we are in fact dealing with three positions, and we can discov~r the implications of Ranci~re’s argument by working through them. Ted Benton provides a useful example in his argument that it is possible to separate the […]

LelleJls little meaning. ~ao’s view concerned the problems and future of China, whereas Freire has evolved his views as a result of a progressive literacy campaign in Latin America. The situations and historical contexts of both are so far apart in space and in time as to have only a tenuous link. In one key […]

cerned with converting visual sensations into a picture. Drop from ‘picture’ the connotations of ‘picturesque’ and think in terms of visual enquiry and description. Thus, Oezanne’s pictures are as much description and enquiry as mathematical pictures; symbolic logic pictures and pictures in physics – models. Cezanne studied objects and tried to grasp and present the […]