16 Editorial

vention in education akin to those being contemplated at present in Britain) may suggest new ways of understanding the state of British philosophy. AbouIIhis issue Orthodox British philosophical theory is fe’eble and emaciated; it feeds on itself and becomes still thinner and weaker. The Radical Philosophy movement is originally a protest against this debility; and […]

Belgrade Protest

RADICAL PHILOSOPHY ELEVEN ,’Belgrade ProIesl In the last three issues of Radical Philosophy we-reported on the continued ba”rr~!sment of philosophers in Yugoslavia. The following letter from eight Belgrade philosophy professors was sent to the Assembly of the Socia~ist Republic of Serbia earlier this year The seven year long campaign against us – in which, in […]

11 News & Reports

symphonies, which so often submit to the imposed falsehood of a , soc iali st-optimist’ programne, nevertheless stand up ~s authentic creations of the sUffering artist, voicing an imminent critique of dominant ideology through the sheer -~nbalance and rebarbative crudeness of their structure. In these interpretive matters, where aesthetics meets with the phenome~­ olegy of […]

Philosophy Festival

Radical Philos…..y Twelve Philosophy 4 reslival The Radical Philosophy Group will hold a conference at Balliol College, Oxford, on 10, 11, 12 January 1976. The aim of the conference is to enable people to meet and talk winh one another on the basis of a common concern with the connections between politics and theory, in […]

Dialectics

Radical PhilosoRh:y rou..teen Dialectics In this iss!.le we are publishing two articles on dialecticd. The topic aroused considerable interest at our January conference, and at the open meeting on 13 March (see news section), we decided to try to initiate a co-ordinated scheme of collective work on the topic, leading up to a conference next […]

Threats to Swansea Students

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 […]

The Swansea Affair

RadicaIPhilosophy~_. _ _ _ __ system and those within society generally. For when this happens contradictions are exposed. So too is the power of trade unionism – its capacity to act in solidarity and to organise effective opposi tion. And when this menacing power present’s its face at the threshold of the academic sanctuary then […]

Yugoslavia, US, RPG Reports etc.

issues, in fact, Aarons and Dewey are interchangeable. Dewey expresses Aarons’ main problem as follows: The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man’s beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about the values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem of modern life. It is the […]

8 Editorial

RadicaIPhiloso~hy_8_ __ This issue of Radical Philosophy contains sev· ral articles on education. We are particularly glad about this because we feel that although most radical intellectuals spend their working lives in education they have rarely considered what the significance of this is. It is part of the cunning of bourgeois culture that it has […]