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Hearing the silence

...rience it in the same way? I see a voice This is the question addressed in Jonathan Réeʼs remarkable study of the history and philosophical implications of deafness, I See a Voice.* The Sirens do not feature in Réeʼs book, but the myth can be used to articulate some of its recurring themes. The central, and by far the longest, section of I See a Voice is devoted to a history of deaf education from the seventeenth century to the present. This is fo...

On National Identity: A Response to Jonathan Rée

On National Identity A Response to Jonathan Ree Ross Poole Jonathan Ree’s ‘Internationality’l makes a number of significant contributions to the sparse philosophical literature on nationalism. The concept which gives the paper its title promises, I think, to be particularly useful. Just as we are now accustomed to think of individual subjects as constituted in and through relations of intersubjectivity, so Ree suggests we should think of individu...

Lacan: A Reply to Rée

...ssue on pp261-71. LACAN: A REPLY TO REE ANTONY EASTHOPE I won’t comment on Jonathan Ree’s harsh and over-personalised attack on Coward and Ellis (Radical Philosophy 23) except to say it was at the least unfraternal – whatever the inadequacies of Coward and Ellis’ position it is not one that offers much comfort to Sir Keith Joseph and his like. But it was a pity that Lacan, about whom we are sure to hear a lot more, should first surface in Radical...

Powerless companions or fellow travellers?: Human rights and the neoliberal assault on post-colonial economic justice

..., and proposed that there may be a qualitative difference between ‘formal freedoms’ (the traditional natural rights of liberty, security and property) and ‘real freedoms’ (rights to work, leisure, housing, development, etc.), and that ‘respect for natural rights may be the condition sine qua non of real economic and social development’. 64 Looking back, Malhuret argued that the French in 1777 or 1778 were in exactly the same economic situation as...

Poor Bertie

...in logic. So with Ogdenʼs help, he was going to launch himself on a new career, earning his living as a freelance political commentator rather than a mathematician and fellow of a Cambridge college. He had dabbled in politics before of course; indeed he had been brought up political, in the home of the great Victorian reforming prime minister, Lord John Russell, who was his grandfather. And in 1896, when he was 24, he had published a book about r...

Rorty’s nation

...dual and nationalization based on the conglomerated nation. If we want to free ourselves from this prejudice, and broaden our bourgeois liberal experience a little, then we could do worse than read Marx on the manifold variousness of the forms of property and belonging that have been potentialized and actualized in the course of history. We might even find ourselves nodding in belated recognition at Marxʼs prescient descriptions of nationalization...

The affinities of Richard Rorty and Edward Bellamy: A response to Jonathan Rée

...ng ʻone of The affinities of Richard Rorty and Edward Bellamy A response to Jonathan Rée Alan johnson usʼ, personhood does not exist. That idea fits in with little difficulty to the ʻbeehiveʼ model of Bellamyʼs Looking Backward. Hal Draper characterized that model as a particular brand of socialism-from-above, ʻcommunionismʼ, reflecting Bellamyʼs ʻmistrust of the individualism of the personality, his craving to dissolve the Self into communion with So...

New Right Utopias

...s can only be politically defined, and are thus regarded as inadmissable. Freedom is entirely negative freedom, the absence of restraint, deregulation – although ironically many proposals involve an increase in centralised power, and an increasing reliance on legal procedures for those who can afford them. Freedom is also seen in entirely economic terms, as ‘economic freedom is the essence of personal freedom’ . Criticism of the proposals needs to...

Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference

...of philosophical discourse tend to occlude. Broadly speaking, there are three degrees of scepticism to the view that ideals are answerable to reason. According to the first, practical reason is extended beyond its legitimate scope when applied to ideals. ‘First degree’ sceptics doubt if ideals can be subject to reason on account of their unsuitability for universalisation: different people can hold incompatible ideals with equally good reason. Wh...

Prequel to the Heidegger debate: Audry and Sartre

...péro, Paris, 1969, pp. 73–6. 31. ^ In a recent issue of Radical Philosophy Jonathan Rée quotes with approval Derridaʼs statement that ʻWe still do not know what Nazism is or what made it possible.ʼ (RP 63, Spring 1993, p. 55). But as Rée and Derrida are both well aware, fascism is still very much with us, and we cannot wait to resolve the finer points of theorization before committing ourselves to action. 32. ^ Wolin, The Heidegger Controversy, p....

Internationality

...tical treatment of myth. Philosophy, he claimed, had begun with Socrates’ Greek reaction to Greek myths, but subsequently it had been necessary for each national dialectic to nourish itself with the myths of other nations, because it would be unable to draw sustenance from its own: a kind of philosophical exogamy was necessary for the survival of national cultures. For Hegel, politics was the process by which society becomes conscious of itself, a...

Symposium: What is Radical Philosophy?

...“But nobody wants to do it. Surely you don’t want to attack our academic freedom?”. Academic freedom can be a two-edged sword from the student’s point of view, for we do not just want our ideas tolerated, we want them put into effect. From the student’s point of view the tendency is to see their complaints against the department as part of a much larger struggle, taking place through their Union, against the whole University system and, ultimatel...

All their play becomes fruitful: The utopian child of Charles Fourier

...1, p. 99. 8. ^ Charles Fourier, The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier, ed. Jonathan Beecher and Richard Bienvenu, Jonathan Cape, London, 1975, p. 165. 9. ^ The Theory of the Four Movements, pp. 73–4. 10. ^ Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret Macmillan, 1868–1930, Virago, London, 1990, p. 64. 11. ^ The Utopian Vision, pp. 308–9. 12. ^ Parke Godwin, A Popular View of the Doctrines of Charles Fourier, J.S. Redfield, New...

Tactics, ethics, or temporality?: Heidegger's politics reviewed

...ound in Bourdieu’s The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (reviewed by Jonathan Ree in RP 60). Sluga exchanges the formalist empiricism of Bourdieu’s analysis for a broadly Foucauldian approach to the discursive constitution of the philosophical field. Yet he too may be accused of 20 overstating the continuity of the Third Reich with the Weimar period – the continuity of a diversity which is said to remain ‘essentially intact’ – at the cost of...

Marxist Modes

...arxism was brought round to the recognition that social for.mations have three eternally preformed ‘levels’ the political, the economic, and the ideological – all interacting in easy-going reciprocity. There ensued a period when Marxism relished this new-found freedo.m, cheerfully reciting the discovery that its ‘levels’ were ‘relatively autonomous’, though still obsessively harping on the idea that the economic was ‘deter.mining in the last insta...

Philosophy in China

...attempt to counteract academic elitism, courses have been shortened (to three years for a first degree), students are required to spend several years working in the countryside before being enrolled, and both teachers and students are required to do regular stints of manual labour and to go and teach and learn amongst the masses. We also knew that teaching methods would be conservative by Western standards. Students, we discovered, are timetabled...

Preface to Rancière’s ‘Proletarian Nights’

...t, VI.49S. * With acknowledgement for help and suggestions from Pete Dews, Jonathan Ree, Mike Shortland, Carolyn Sumberg. Lukas, Heidegger and Fascism Mark Tebbitt It has long been acknowledged that there is a necessity to develop a rational Marxist response to 20th-century existentialism. The post-War debates on this subject have almost inevitably tended to focus on the development of Sartre’s philosophy, on his dialogues with official Marxism in...

Timely Meditations

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 (1980) and Consequences of Pragmatism (1982). He had come to the conclusion that it was committed to an...

Creativity as criticism

...losophy: The Difference Engineer, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 58–72. 2. ^ Jonathan Rée, ʻPhilosophy for Philosophyʼs Sakeʼ, New Left Review 211, 1995, pp. 105–11. Even the more sympathetic review by James Williams, ʻAn Affirmation of Independence: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattariʼ, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26, 1995, pp. 326–31, notes that where once Deleuze and Guattari sought to make all things phil...

Understanding the holocaust: The uniqueness debate

...nstein and recent french philosophy . MA Aesthetics and Art Theory includes: the aesthetic tradition, modernist aesthetics, romantic aesthetics, phenomenological aesthetics, and postmodernism, conceptualism and the end of art1999 Programme leaders: Peter Osborne, Jonathan Rée and Alexander García Düttmann apply now for october 1999 Write to: Admissions Enquiries, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR Tel: 0181 362 5703tmadmissions@...