Dissident Intellectuals: East and West, RPG Reports, etc.

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 from Oxford, USA, Sydney, etc.

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 […]

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_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 from Kent, London, Oxford

REPORTS HEm ~!……Discussion Weekend at Universi t..L..£.f2 ent , ,?2::.?Z__ .:!..~e first, insofar as its ‘problems’ arc emplr ~~l’: _ l,rohlems (knowledge of the external world, causality, other minJ~, personal identity, etc.), and secondly, insofar as it retain the same ideological orientation as classical empiricism. Epistemology is by its very nature prescriptive; it is for […]