Pieces by Radical Philosophy

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

News DISSIDENT INTELLECTUALS: EAST ANDWEST l.Yugoslavia: philosophers sacked According to press reports eight philosophy teachers have lost their jobs at Belgrade University as a result of political pressure. Mihailo l;larkovic, Ljubomir Tadic, svetozar stejanovic, and the 0th8rs, formed the Belgrade wing of the philosophical tendency associated with the journal Praxis. The Zabreb wing has also […]

Radical Philoso~~y_7_ __ ~I political and economic theory: and we want to develop awareness of the conditions in which philosophy is actually produced – which means bourgeois academic institutions. (See the article by Jon Davies on what it means to take a degree, and also parts of Ranci~re’s wide-ranging critique of his former teacher Althusser […]

News Swansea Swansea Radical Philosophy Group has been struggling with the Philosophy Department of University College Swansea for many months. The students have campaigned for various reforms, including the introduction of tutorials, reduction of emphasis on compulsory lectures, and democratic checks on the power of the head of the department. A pamphlet outlining the story […]

Radical Philosop-hy_6_ __ Orthodox English-language philosophy may be pretty boring, ignorant, and mystifying; but beyond this it is hard to make generalisations about it. One of the complications concerns its attitudes to the conceptions which characterise the minds of nonintellectuals or non-academics, to ‘common sense’ or ‘ordinary language’. On this issue, there have been two […]

ested in people’s wills was not relevant to the will of the people. In other words, I think that the key to the difference between the images of man embedded in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ paradigms lies in the psychologist’s relationship to his subject – who is, in the one case, an entity to be […]

RADIEAL PHILOSOPHY 5 It has always been intended that the editorship of this journal should circulate regUlarly from one group to another. This intention is now to be put into practice; and with the next issue the work of production and distribution will be taken over by a group in London based at the Middlesex […]

REPORTS ~ time to take this on would be one in London based mainly on people at Middlesex Polytechnic. It was agreed that they should take over the production work starting with RP6 at the end of the summer. The editorial work of reading and evaluating contributions would continue to be done by a wider […]

RADIEAl PHIOSOPHV 4 With this issue, Radical Philosophy is one year old: During this year the movement has created a good deal of interest and received a lot of support. However, this success has also served to highlight the long struggle which will he needed if we are to have significant effects. The features of […]

REPORTS OXFORD MEETING Finally it was agreed that there should be another National Conference in the summer. to be held in London early in the summer vacation. An attempt would be made to involve other radical groups, such as radical psychologists, sociologists and economists, and more activist groups such as radical teachers, social workers, ‘prisoners […]

_DIAL PHIlOSOPHY 3 WINTER 1972 .. Since our last issue one of the most encouraging developments has been the formation of several new local groups. There are at least two functions these groups can perform both useful and neither necessarily exclusive of the other. A group aay provide a context in which ideas, ~nich are […]

REPORTS LEEDS To give an account of the effect that Radical Philosophy has had inside the Department of Philosophj at Leeds, it is necessary to explain what had been happening in this department prior to the emergence of this journal. Staff-Student Committees within the University are now about 5 years old; the Philosophy committee is […]