Pieces by Radical Philosophy

Notes This issue of Radical Philosophy appears in a situation where the interests of both its writers and readers are under threat. Not only is philosophy being threatened as a result of the economic crisis, but the philosophical frameworks used by radical groups over the last decade are directly under attack: the Open University is […]

1977, hc £10.00 B. M. G. Reardon, He”el’s Philosophy of Reliijon, London, Macmillan, 1977, hc £ 8. 95 J.Rosenbaum, ed., Rivette: Texts and Interviews, London, BFI, 1977, pb O. 75p J. Schwartz, ed., The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism, Santa Monica, Calif., Goodyear Pub Co, 1977, pb np M. Smith, The Underground and Education, London, Methuen, […]

Notes In this issue we publish an important study, the first to appear in Radical Philosophy, of sexism in philosophy. Michele Le Doeuff’s article, ‘Women and Philosophy’, breaks new ground in the analysis of the politics and history of philosophical practice. The depth and force of her argument lies in the thesis that the sexism […]

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 […]

way it feeds the craving it attempts to satisfy – where do we go from here? One feels that Ken Coates’ apt description of I. S. as ‘a rather shrill, if also intellectually infertile, sectarian grouping’ would find echoes in all the groupuscules, but has anyone done a close enough analysis of them to really […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ne~s Doctor Althusser In June Louis Althusser, of international reputation and after having taught for twenty-five years at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, travelled to Amiens to defend his doctoral ‘thesis’ before a local jury. It has not been explained 1Io1hy Al thusser bQthered to do this or what it mea~t to him personally […]

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 […]

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 […]

mined pride in doing it well, not to please their masters, but as a way of rejecting the humiliations to which capricious employers sUbjected them. This attitude to work is particularly noticeable in the rural areas where class relations are still personalised even towards the end of the 19th century. The urban accounts show a […]